The Keble's Gazette had this amusing article in 1897. I can only assume that a Tailor had a Days gone by window display with cumbersome clothes! In a shop in the High Street there is to be seen a lady standing in a well furnished and roomy window; she is stately, silent and still. What a host of memories the sight of her calls up. Did our grandmothers indeed dress like that? if so, how horrible it must have been for our Grandfathers! Fancy a man taking his wife, half dozen daughters and an aunt or two for a picnic up the river. One wonders how he would get them there; how they would manage in the boat and, in case of an upset, whether they would float or not. How sad too for a man to have his sweetheart caught up by the wind and carried goodness knows where, just as she was about to make a good impression! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.5/321 - Release Date: 4/21/06