text:  How much more sensible how much more ornamental how much more noble such a scarf or cravat as this which no shopman's boy could emulate than the cheap and ugly thing in which many a man still seems to delight! How admirably did these bands of rich lace contrast with the silken coats or the polished cuirasses of their wearers! how truly aristocratic was their appearance! how entirely without effort without pretension and yet how very distinctive of the type of their wearer! But you will say if we fail in the matter of white cravats surely we excel in that of black-silk ones and brocaded stocks! We _might_ excel we allow; but we do not know how to wear these things