text:  With all these changes--and we do not intend to blacken our fathers' memories for having made them--what have we arrived at in this point of dress? What are the conveniences of our present garments? in what are they useful? in what are they beautiful? in what do they need to be improved? To begin at the top of the tree--the modern _habit-de-cour_: coat for coat of the dress kind (military coats are for the present out of the question ) this is the most useful and the most becoming of any now worn