Related article: back than Mr. Egerton Warbur- ton to find out how completely hunting dress has changed since his time. Many readers of his lyrics will remember the lines: — Backskin's the only wear fit for the ttddle. Hits for Hyde Park, but a cap for the chase; In tops of black leather let fishermen paddle. The calves of a fozhunter white ones encase. And the mention of buckskin brings me to the foxhunter's breeches. At the end of last century buckskins, or leather breeches, as they were then called, were perhaps more common than they are now, and White of Tor- porley had quite a name for the excellence of his cut and material. It was not, however, everybody who could afford leathers, or have a man to clean them, so other material was adopted, but from about 1820 the best turned out Leicestershire men wore nothing but Nitrofurantoin 50mg cords, and they might have remained in fashion till to-day had not Lord Wilton, Mr. Maxse, and Lord Forester brought in Nitrofurantoin Cap leathers by wearing them at one of the Croxton Park Meetings, of which they were stewards. The modern tailor has certainly done us a kindness by making our breeches tight just below and just above Nitrofurantoin Mono-Mcr the knee, where we can dispense with wrinkles, and giving us plenty of room in length and breadth above. But in the last century and early in the present, in fact up to about the "'twenties," or even later, breeches were made so short from the knee to the hip, and so tight that it was said of one Leicestershire dandy that his legs must have been melted and run into his cords, and he Nitrofurantoin Mono was considered the best dressed man who could put up with the greatest compression in the matter of breeches. There is, however, a point be- yond which neither leather, cord, nor tailor's thread can compete with a well - developed muscle, and in Northamptonshire a well- dressed man Nitrofurantoin Mono 100mg whose breeches had been the envy of nearly all the hunting-men of the time, one day 22 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [JANOAKT found his creaseless breeches com- pletely " gone." Other men took the hint, and reefs were forthwith shaken out — this, at least, is the story of looser breeches. I must not, however, forget the spur; for if we look at some of the old pictures of the time of Aiken and Sir John Dean Paul, we find that they were short in the neck, sometimes with a considerable droop, sometimes straight, but always short. The heel-strap — that is to say, that which goes from the stud of the spur under the foot — was very short, while the instep strap was allowed to run loose, with the result that the arms of Nitrofurantoin Macro 100mg the spurs hung down, and the "business end ** of the spur itself was about on a level with the lower surface of the heel of the boot. Now the fashion has run completely Nitrofurantoin Macrocrystal the other way. Whyte - Melville, in ** Riding Recollections," in speak- ing of some awkward place over which a fine horseman handed his horse, says : " My own spurs were four inches long ; but I do not think I would have had the place at any Nitrofurantoin 100 price " — or something to that Nitrofurantoin Monohyd effect ; and now we find spurs Nitrofurantoin Macro very long in the neck and worn up as high as the ankle- bones. But, as a set-off, the majority of hunting spurs are innocent of sharp rowels, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are simply worn as a set-off to a well-made and well-hung boot. In similar manner has the hunting Nitrofurantoin 100 Mg coat run the gamut of fashion in its length and breadth. Our ancestors and their huntsmen wore long affairs, almost like the Newmarket coat of to-day. They buttoned Nitrofurantoin 100mg rather low down in front, and had enormous roll collars, and when the time came for the very tight breeches the coat was contracted until it became a ter- ribly skimpy affair. The sleeves were tight, it was closely but- toned, fashion ordained that it should be ver^ much shorter, and the ample skirts of former years were snipped into nothing. Some- where about the " 'sixties " the old dress-coat pattern was revived, and one saw plenty of men in buttoned - up swallow - tails. Double-breasted cutaways have had their day, also Nitrofurantoin Tablets the single- breasted pattern. Thirty or forty years ago it would not have been considered the correct thing for anyone who was not a Master of Hounds to have worn a coat of the huntsman's frock pattern, yet now they are common enough, both in red, black, and steel grey. The writer did once, when out with the Queen's Hounds, see Nitrofurantoin Mcr a scarlet pilot coat ; but such vaga- ries have happily been rather rare. Nothing, perhaps, can be better than the present fashionable hunt- ing ties. Those most in fashion combine collar and tie. They are neat and workmanlike in appear- ance, but require careful tying, and it may be remarked en fiassaniy that so many ties fail for want Nitrofurantoin Cap 100mg of being properly pinched. Whether the tie be of the stock and scarf pattern, or whether the scarf be worn with a collar, it is impera- tive, if neatness be desired, that when one end has been thrown over the other, and the scarf hangs down in front of the wearer, that a considerable amount of compression with the fingers — clean fingers, of course — should take place at the top by the collar stud. The upper and lower parts should be drawn, the one to the right and the other to the left, until the proper tension is secured, and then the fold may be pressed until it will Nitrofurantoin 50 Mg remain there by itself without lessening the set of the tie. Then a loop is made, and the ends passed through to prepare it i9oa] HUNTING DRESSy ANCIENT AND MODERN. 23 for the reception Nitrofurantoin Monohyd of the pin, and here again pinching Nitrofurantoin And should take place at each side, wherever there is a fold, for the aim should be to make the tie keep in position by itself, and not need the pin to retain it in place. Years ago black satin bows, green ties and other colours, Nitrofurantoin Macrocrystals were worn, while it will be remem-