In this regard the
barbering profession has much in common with the haberdashering or
gents'-furnishing profession as practiced in our larger cities.
You invade a haberdashering establishment for the purpose, let us
say, of investing in a plain and simple pair of half hose, price
twenty-five cents. That emphatically is all that you do desire.
You so state in plain, simple language, using the shorter and
uglier word socks.
Does the youth in the pale mauve shirt with the marquise ring on
the little finger of the left hand rest content with this? Need I
answer this question? In succession he tries to sell you a fancy
waistcoat with large pearl buttons, a broken lot of silk pajamas,
a bath-robe, some shrimp-pink underwear--he wears this kind himself
he tells you in strict confidence--a pair of plush suspenders and
a knitted necktie that you wouldn't be caught wearing at twelve
o'clock at night at the bottom of a coal mine during a total
eclipse of the moon. If you resist his blandishments and so far
forget that you are a gentleman as to use harsh language, and if
you insist on a pair of socks and nothing else, he'll let you have
them, but he will never feel the same toward you as he did.
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