Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — The Knee Breeches Revival in Boston. [ARTICLE]

The Knee Breeches Revival in Boston.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If rumor be not very much astray, tailless dress coats and black silk knickerbockers are at this moment in preparation at the studios of two or three of the swellest local tailors, for wear by certain gilt-edged young persons here before the coming of lent. A concerted effort is evidently to be made very soon to make the novelty popular .n Beaeon street and Back Bay. Be not surprised if, in a week or so, your newspaper contains a telegraph dispatch from this quarter conveying the momentous intelligence of the endorsement of the new costume by Boston’s incomparable jeunesse doree. Let it be understood, that Boston te very proud of her gilded youth. This is an enormously rich community—the most so, for its size, in the world—and there is no lack of spending money for the bovs whose papas own half the Western railways and mortgages on the farms and towns along them,. In point of thordughgoing idleness, so far as laborious occupations are concerned, the bean-fed dude is not excelled by any of his kind elsewhere. The extreme languor of his New York rival, however, he does not at all affect. On the contrary, he is apt to be athletic and much given to out-door sports. Is not the amateur tennis championship of the world even now held by R. D. Sears, a scion of Boston’s wealthiest family, almost? The result of this is that the local calf is excellently developed, a fact which has an important bearing upon the question of wearing knee breeches. "A’ possible accompaniment to the dress reform movement which has come up for discussion the suggested abolition of the moustache. No gentlemen in the last century would have thdught of growing a moustache.