Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1890 — Masculine and Female Apparel. [ARTICLE]

Masculine and Female Apparel.

It is a popular thing nowadays tc criticise women’s dress. We have, however, no sympathy with the implication that women are worse than men in this respect. Men wear all they can without interfering with their locomotion, but man is such an awkward creature he cannot find any place on his body to hang a great many fineries. He could not get around in Wall street with eight or ten ilounces, and a big-handled parasol, and a mountain of black hair. Men wear less than women, not because they are moral, but bee iuse they cannot stand it As it is, many of our young men are padded to a superlative degree, and have corns and bunions on every separate toe from wearing shoes too tight, with collars so high that I wonder why so much good linen is wasted. —Ladies’ Home Journal