Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1909 — WHY MEN WEAR TROUSERS. [ARTICLE]

WHY MEN WEAR TROUSERS.

No living man of this age ever deliberately chose to “adopt trousers.” He was forced into them and all other eccentricities of dress by womep. In the very earliest sartorial experience of every man he was swathed in a queer bundle of incoherent bandages by a woman. Later she puts him into crite little dresses so that the neighbors can’t tell him from his little sister. Still later she cuts off his curls and puts him into knickerbockers, and he puts on “long pants” when she gives the word and not before. That is all that man has to do or ever had to do with wearing trousers. Woman forced him into them in the first place, and now he is afraid to wear anything else for fear of making a sensation.—Providence Journal.