THE ART OF DRESSING.
You must dress according to your ago, your pursuits, your object in life ; you must dress, too, in some cases, according to yoi'.r set. In youth a little fancy is rathei > pocted ; but if political life be your object, it should be avoided —at least after one and twenty. TJn-m dressing two brothers now — men of r-onsiderablo position ; one is a mere man of pleasure, the other will probably be a Minister of State. They are as like as two peas, but were I to dress the dandy and the Minister the same it would be bad taste —it would be ridiculous. No man gives me the trouble which Lord Eglantine does ; he has not made up his mind whether he will be a great poet or Prime Minister. ' Yon must choose, my lord,' I toll him ;' I cannot send you out looking like Lord Byron if you mean to be a Cunning or a Pitt.' I have dressed a great many of our statesmen and orators, and I have always dressed them according to their style and the nature of their duties. What all men should avoid is the ' shabby genteel.' No man ever gets over it. I will save you from that. You had bettor be in rags,—Endymion.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3026, 8 March 1881, Page 4
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214THE ART OF DRESSING. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3026, 8 March 1881, Page 4
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