1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

CHAPTER XVIII

" Costly tKy tabit as thy purse can buy. But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft claims a man.' — Shakespeare. Once It " took nine tailors to make a man," and no less a person than Byron vouched for this ancient He. Nowadays, It takes a Man as Is a Man to make a Tailor, and a Fat Bank Account to pay him. It Is not the province of the writer to presume to lay down hard and fast rules for the dress of the bachelor. It Is granted that he knows best how he would dress, according to his sta- tion. As a " London tradesman In a dress suit reminds one of a doyley on a stove lid," clothes have un-made the man quite as often as they've made him. King Edward, who Is taken as a

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