Virginia Argus

From the New York Morning Chronicle.

COMMUNICATION.

" Good lord! to see the various ways of dressing a calves head ! !"

TO THE BEAUX OF NEW-YORK.

GENTLEMEN

Being one of those who is friendly to style and fashion, I presume, have a right to oppose any unwarrantable encroachments on the present mode. An attempt is made to introduce again, a custom long since exploded as too barbarous for this enlightened age; I mean hoo pelered heads and large queues; a custom established contrary to reason, and which, I am bold to say, has no foundation in nature. Who could have attempted to introduce so quizzical a fashion, but some old, would-be beaux, who is determined to hide his grey hairs under a load of pomatum & powder? Can any man of taste compare the beauty and convenience of a brutus crop, to the stiffness and formality of a powdered pate? and a queue too ! of all things in the world the most ungraceful: If men are determined to assimilate themselves to a certain contemptible animal, by wearing this dangling appendage, I shall think, they deserve the stigma long since fixed on the beaux of the old school by impertinent naturalists; "that they are but one link in the chain of animal creation, above the monkey tribe."

If men of style will wear tails, I think, with my cousin Tim Switch, that they should be sewed in the rear, to the bottom of their breeches. Should this detestable mode, in spite of all reason, be adopted, it is to be hoped that our belles, as a counterpart, will revive all the horrors of the ancient mode: the huge unshapen hoop; the formal stays: the horse shoe roll; and the weighty calabash. Besides, gentlemen, although I like to be in the fashion, I honestly confess, that I wish to be so, at as cheap a rate as possible. In our present mode of crops, what trouble or expense have we? No barber's fees, no disbursements for powder, pomatum, &c. not even the expense of a comb! Nothing is necessary but to sleep without a night cap, to rumple the hair a little with one's fingers. when lo! is produced that studied disorder, that regular irregularity, which is the pride and glory of the present ton! For these and a thousand other reasons, I hope, the enlightened order of beaux, will oppose this attempt to revolutionize the fashionable world.

I have the honor to be, gentlemen, one of you.

BOB CROP.