For yachting, for climbing, for cricketing too;
The dresses for boating, the new petticoating,
The tunics in brown and the trousers in blue.
The fabrics for frockings, the shoes and the stockings,
And corsets that ne'er will the figure compress;
But in the whole placeful there's little that's graceful
And girlish enough for a Rational Dress!
'Tis hardy and boyish, not girlful and coyish—
We think, as we stroll round the gaily-dight room—
A masculine coldness, a brusqueness, a boldness,