Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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tity of soldiers and officers who,discharged or invalided home, were to befound everywhere wearing the much dis-cussed garments. Then the faskionabl® tailors took them up, and the doom ofthe shapely knee-breeches was inevitable.But for all that, the latter wear made agallant fight of it. In the memory ofthe writer, some of the oldtime farmersof the British Isles, wore a sort of tightfitting knickerbocker and comfortablehose that were to all intents and pur-poses, the leg-garments of their grand-fathers. And in out of the way placeson the Continent of Europe, the knee-breeches survive in all their grace anddignity. And now let us consider somewhatwherein trousers sin against health andthe art instinct—especially the former. There are a whole host, of reasons,declare the leaders in the anti-trousersmovement, why the garments should bediscarded altogether, or be so modifiedin form and shape, that they shall be in-capable of working future harm to hu-manity. Some of the more radical of
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Japanese Jinrickshaw Man. Note the Re-markable Development of the calf and theloose comfortable character of clothing,trousers included 402 PHYSICAL CULTURE

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