Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — Keeping Up with the Fashion. [ARTICLE]

Keeping Up with the Fashion.

Charles Dudley Warner in Harper’: It is, of course, necessary to wear our hair and mount onr scarf-pins and tie our cravats and set up our cut-throat collars and to walk in the foreign mode. But it is ridiculous to be so slow in our imitation. Fashion ought to have more alert scouts out in Europe and quicker methods of diffusing the new styles here. We are always behindtime. Now, before we get universally and well settled in the Bond street walk, the English youth will be walking in an entirely different manner, and we shall be as much out of fashion as a last year’s almanac, dlov do we know now that it is the correct thing for a young to stand with a thumb in each trousers’ pocket ? It may be as out of date as that old and independent American way of wearing the thumbs in tho armholes of the vest. Very likely when we are adepts in the high-shouldered, crooked-elbow, rushing gait, the Pall Mall clerks may be turning out their toes and sauntering along with a sort of bowie-knife nonchalance, caught from Texas ranch life. We need decorative young men’s societies to keep us up to the mark.