Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 256: January to June, 1884 Evening clothes! My dear fellow, how on earth do you sup pose a set of poor Leicester Square outlaws are going to get themselves correctly set up in black broadcloth coats and trousers? They might wash their white ties themselves, to be sure; they mostly do their own washing, I believe, in their own basins. (and not much at that either, put in Herbert, parenthetically.) But as to evening clothes, why, they'd as soon think of arraying themselves for dinner in Full court dress as of putting on an obscurantist swallow tail. It's the badge of a class, a distinct aristocratic outrage we must alter it at once, I assure you, Oswald. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.