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Dress is a matter on which I am very loth to offer an 

 opinion, and will therefore leave it to the individual's 

 taste or change of fashions. Hunting dress is, in reahty, 

 a uniform, and should therefore be governed strictly 

 by the fashion of the particular hunt. Everyone going 

 hunting should aim at being inconspicuous and conform 

 to the taste of the period, a remark applying equally to 

 men and women. Of course, elderly men may be allowed 

 to wear their prehistoric garments in which they followed 

 the chase before the present generation were born. 



Fashions change each year in the cut of a coat, the 

 shape of a tie and the colour of boot-tops, but a top-boot 

 must never be worn without a spur — better guiltless of 

 a rowel. In the matter of the position that buttons are 

 fixed at breeches knees, fashion has ordained consider- 

 able change in my short span of life. My first recollec- 

 tion was for the best-dressed men to wear them on the 

 outside of the knee, but they have gradually worked 

 round to the inside, and in a few years' time will pro- 

 bably be relegated to the back and therefore out of 

 sight. 



This article does not pretend to be a full and complete 

 manual of the manner in which a field should conduct 

 itself, but is merely a reminder of a few things which 

 most men already know, and by observance is conducive 

 to harmony in the glorious sport of fox-hunting. 



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