Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 43, 7 November 1894 — Our Dudes Don’t. [ARTICLE]

Our Dudes Don’t.

I am nsked to explain why somo men think it fashionable to turn up the bottoms of their trviiisers, and how such a fasbion originated. Meu may turu up their trousers in wet weather without reproach, because the doing so is ueat and thrifty, but 1 to turu up trousersin dry weather was tirst thought of by a lot of Loodon bank clerks, who sit on the razor back tops of the Oxford- I street omuibuses. and are apt to rub thei>ottoms of their trousers against the hardware of the seats. L'o keep them turned up through tho day probably struck them as i eeonomieal. Dut I have never seen men of fashion in London tnrn up their trousers under any circumstances. In wet weatber ! they take cabs, but for oue of ! them to appear ou Kotteu Kow in this season with his trousers | turned up would be jnstly eonsidcrod as a serious breacb of decorum. 1 am aware that a i noble earl at a weddSjag recently ! in this city appeared at the altar with his trousers turned up. But 1 ara forced to conclude he iuteudcd tbat as a cynical practical joke en tbe Augb - maniacs and weak imitators bo had met at the Xew York clubs, who think it is £nglish to wear trousers turned up an ineh at Ihe bottom.—3*. Y. Pnt».