"Then,  too,  there  is  a  scale  of  honor  among  clothes,
which  must  not  be  forgotten.  Thus,  a  new  coat  is  more
honorable  than  an  old  one,  a  cut-away  or  shooting-coat
than  a  dressing-gown,  a  frock-coat  than  a  cut-away,  a
dark  blue  frock-coat  than  a  black  frock-coat,  a  tail-coat
than  a  frock-coat.  There  is  no  honor  at  all  in  a  blue
tail-coat,  however,  except  on  a  gentleman  of  eighty,  ac-
companied with  brass  buttons  and  a  buff  waistcoat.
There  is  more  honor  in  an  old  hunting-coat  than  in  a
new  one,  in  a  uniform  with  a  bullet  hole  in  it  than  one
without,  in  a  fustian  jacket  and  smock-frock  than  in  a
frock-coat,  because  they  are  types  of  labor,  which  is  far
more  honorable  than  lounging.  Again,  light  clothes  are
generally  placed  above  dark  ones,  because  they  cannot
be  so  long  worn,  and  are,  therefore,  proofs  of  ex-
penditure, alias  money,  which  in  this  world  is  a  com-
modity more  honored  than  every  other;  but,  on  the  other
hand,  tasteful  dress  is  always  more  honorable  than  that
which  has  only  cost  much.  Light  gloves  are  more  es-
teemed than  dark  ones,  and  the  prince  of  glove-colors  is,
undeniably,  lavender.
