Braces Required

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 5

Braces Required

4 ‘■Dominion” Special Service —By Air Mail. London, January 21. Mr. Kenneth W. Sanderson, honorary curator of costumes at Leeds Art Gallery, is also interested in fashions. But his 20 years of research have left him with a grievance against our forefathers, who have neglected to leave their braces to posterity. His wonderful collection of eighteenth century costumes lacks only one important feature—a fully-authenticat-ed pair of braces of the period. Braces were introduced into this country from Italy in the early eighteenth century, and before they came into fashion, men supported their breeches with drawstrings. These at the time were considered. more manly, and it has been suggested that our ancestors secretly destroyed their old braces for fear of being considered effeminate.