text:  Speedily judge for yourself tasty reader; but let us have a garment calculated for real use and real ornament; no pretence no sham; a fine manly figure and a covering worthy of it _voila la chose essentielle!_ To criticize a gown is always a more pleasing task than to waste one's patience upon a coat; and independently of this the aesthetician has to lay aside nearly all terms of reprobation in alluding to the habiliments of ladies of the present day