THE DUDE. Like Everything In Nature He Has His Uses.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 7

THE D UDE. Like Everything In Nature He Has His Uses.

Nothing more thoroughly bespeaks th« gentleman than elegance of attire, and it is the duty of every man to cultivate neatness in dress. Charac ter is as clearly marked by dress as by anything else, and the beet evidences of modesty are ofttimes seen in the -taste of attire. Through drees the mind may bo. read, as through the delicate tissue the .lettered pape. ■ Give a , man the free; reins, of, drese, and themearis wherewith and hischaracter is at once displayed. The modeetirqan would dreee modestly in the stme manner as the fop would at once resort to the extreme of a fa6hion'. Gulure is retiring - and modeet, ac pretension is fond and aggressive ; and this is true in dress, the same; <as in manners and speech, A true gentle^ man will avoid the exceesivo wear of jew* elleryrand the flashy necktie with the same rigidity as he would a poiaot.ous herb or reptile. Not bo, however, with the dude. Dress being hia highest aim- in .. life, he centres allhia thoughts upon what new and ridiculous style of dress he will next assume, y The mere flashy the cravat, the better the fop like 3 it ; the nearer the point of the 1 (shoe can resemble the narrowness of his intellect the deeper 1 it " ! becomes imbedded, in his favor; .iha 'higher the, collar, f themoreidiotic,thecutof the coafc or troupers, the. better. No i style is toa nonsensical, -no manner too. eilly for jhim^to ape.' He,appears on the street or ia ■publio assembly? and while he may find a fewt toi admire' l his mtthoda tand i style of mannerand dre9S, t the number iaso email .that out of arthousand be might count them ! onjthejngera of. hia left hand.^ -.This b the Ithe :dude— namely;; to sbji^ his:i extravagances of < display those whose > inclinations for ;, dross iwbuld place then^joifv given \rio!,timel^ leaeonCof their ofdlly^ in haymow be?bola>him.!whom\they"( ridicule, andslook upon .them society jt^Un^^eihce.Qfrtheldud^as-Keen.felt, and; m\tik BistinBipid{;JdQann,e^8 < '4al)d#:ien6ronce of: 'accomplished* a good that oan Ecarcely be over-estimated.