MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 369, 21 May 1869, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Some woman, in an apparettly revengeful spirit, thus holds forth on the prevailing gentlemen’s fashion: — “ The press has never been remiss in deprecating the follies of the female sex upon the occasion of each change in the style of female apparel; but it is a noticeable fact that the popinjay style of breeches now in vogue is more more ridiculous than anything women wear, and it is unnoticed. Female loveliness is such that it can make charming any extreme fashion; but what length of familiarity, pray heaven, can ever make tolerable — much less comely—the dexter appendage of a human crane, wound about so tight with clothes as to stop the circulation ? The present style of pantaloons is neither comfortable, comely, nor economical. The ‘ swell’ who adopts it can neither stoop nor sit down without danger. Here comes a six-foot gallant, with a number ten boot, and a figure like a pair of tongues. There is not enough in his legs to make a show, and he walks as if eacl\ boot was a bassviol. By his side is another devotee of the same style, halt his length, whose makeup reminds me of a plum-pudding perched on a pair of pincers. They go to the extreme of folly, and the very essence of ludicrousness. Nothing a woman ever wore will compare in folly with the tight breeches on a bandy-legged human biped.” On hearing a clergyman remark “ the world is full of change,” Mrs. Partington says she could hardly bring her mind to believe it, so little found its way to her pockets.