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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aterial according to thesocial position of the wearer, were ingeneral use. This was a combinationthat enabled a man to show a goodleg if he had one, and it may be re-marked that such a leg was looked uponas a sign of gentlemanly birth andbreeding. Trousers were not received with favorby the religious or fashionable worldsat the time of their introduction. TheMethodists of England, for example,were particularly bitter against them,describing them as lewd, loathsome andbutchering wear, the last adjectivehinting at their army origin. FatherReece, a famous member of the sect inquestion, in 1801, preached a bitter ser-mon against trousers. At a conferenceof the Methodists held a few years before,the question was discussed whether itwas possible for a man to be religious andclothe his legs in the objectionable gar-ments. And it was decided that hecouldnt. It was further averred thathe who wore this hellish fashion(trousers) was in the sight of the Al-mighty, like unto the wanton or the sot.
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his home at Tokyo, From stereograph, copyright ! The Mayor of Tokyo and his Daughter in the beautiful gardens Japan. Note the voluminous, though light trousers that this official considers necessary, 400 TROUSERS A MENACE TO HEALTH AND MORALITY 401

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