Nov 23, 2012
[T]wo separate doors on the Bowery swished continuously with a steady influx of young women in hoop skirts, little girls with bonnets, and men in fashionable tight-fitting breeches, the kind that led one puckish female writer, in 1868, to compare them to 'a plum-pudding perched on the handle of a pair of pincers.'
David Freeland on the patrons of the Atlantic Garden in Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville. His citation is sourced to the August 21 New Orleans Times article "Tight Breeches."
