THE AMERICAN "DUDES" AND MR KENDAL'S TROUSERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2751, 1 March 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE AMERICAN "DUDES" AND MR KENDAL'S TROUSERS.

According to present appearances, Mr and Mrs Kendal's professional trip to the United States promises to beat the record in the matter of pecuniary profit. From the very they have gone forward with increasing prosperity, and have arranged to extend their visit beyond the limit originally fixed. Off the stage they are the rage, Mrs Kendal's dresses supplying models for all new things, aud the cut of Mr Keudal'a coat exciting the profoundest controversy amongst the dudes. In a private letter to a London friend (says the London correspondent of the Liverpool Post) Mr Kendal tells a funny story illustrating this crazedressing. One evening his man produced from the box a pair of trousers indispensable to the character in which he was about to appear. It was discovered that through careless packing the trousers had a hideous crease down the front of the leg. Everything that could possibly be done at short notice and with limited appliances was tried to remedy the defect, but with only partial success ; and Mr Kendal, with a sick heart, repaired to the stage. On the following morning he was waited upon by one of a long series of interviewers, who told him that a great sensation had been caused among the gilded youth in the stalls by observing the new fashion in trousers, and, desirous of satisfying public curiosity, the reporter asked Mr Kendal to tell him whether it was now the fashion in England to have a seam down the front of the trouser's leg. Mr Kendal explained the accidental ( circumstances, and the iuterviewer went ( away decidedly crestfallen. The gilded youth were evidently dying for something new in trousers' seam, and the precedent hoped for proved illusory.