Male Fashions

The ruea of every geueration have bad thoir laugh at the fashion cf the ladies : but tho ladiea have had their opportunities of triumph in return. If the womon onoe boro horned head dressos that made them look like human covvs, did not Ae meu till verj lately wear huge periwigs and long tails or qucus that made thetn look like lious '? If the women, with their heops or farthingalea or crinolines, have occupied a spaee in the world disproportioued to their real size, have uot the mea with tbeii baga ;uid [jueus and eDormoua trousers, sluffed out like mamoioth bolsters with horsehair or cottou, and doublets puokered and distended, looked four times their natural size, and ec;rcely like human beiugs V Iu Ileury the Eighth's rsigi), ü scuffold was erec'ted round the parliameut house for the accomodation oí' such meiubers as oarried the fashion of magnitude iu dl'ess to au extreme. Eveu iu poiot of oost, tho dressea of the gentlemen have often bed) more extravagant ihtua those f the fairer ex. Sir Waltet. Raleigh's doublet was euibroidered with pearls. Ilis buff shoes were covored with prooious stoncs of the value of L',- 000. Ilis armor blazed with diamonds and pearls. The Duke of Buekingham, King Jame's favorito, sometimes had his diamonds so loosely put on his gariuenU that when he pleased he could, with a gudden shake, sprinkle the ground with them, that the Dames de la Cour might piek them up. He had a suit of white velvet, embroidered with diamonds, the vahse of L70,000. Some of the Englisti nobles, at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, canied their whole fortunes on their batks.