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Story November 16, 1888

Idaho Semi Weekly World

Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho

What is this article about?

A satirical piece on a fashion trend among New York's elite: men inserting their left hand into their left trouser pocket to emulate English style, especially after matinees on Fifth Avenue, with tips on appearing fashionable like Prince of Wales' adherents.

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Full Text

The Climax of Good Form.

If your real swells want to be really English they must carry their respective left hands buried to the wrist in their respective left trousers pockets. All the dudes in town have taken to doing it, and every chappie on Fifth avenue after the Wednesday matinees was actually lopsided with the exertion of reaching the very bottom seam of his left trousers pocket. If you can let the tips of the fingers of a pair of tan colored gloves be seen in juxtaposition to your left cuff, just at the mouth of the pocket, you will thereby proclaim yourself one of Wales' strictest adherents, ye knaw. Don't, as you value your reputation for swellishness, put your right hand in your right pocket, for this is as much a breach of good form as it used to be to carry your gloves with the fingers pointing aft instead of forward.-New York Mail and Express.

What sub-type of article is it?

Curiosity

What themes does it cover?

Social Manners

What keywords are associated?

Fashion Trend English Style Trouser Pocket Fifth Avenue Prince Of Wales Good Form

What entities or persons were involved?

Prince Of Wales

Where did it happen?

Fifth Avenue, New York

Story Details

Key Persons

Prince Of Wales

Location

Fifth Avenue, New York

Story Details

Description of a fad where fashionable men in New York put their left hand deep into their left trouser pocket to appear English, with advice on glove visibility and avoiding the right pocket.

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