If men were but generally as prudent as Foxes, they would not suffer so
many silly fashions to obtain as are daily brought in vogue, for which
scarce any reason can be assigned besides the humour of some conceited
vain creature; unless, which is full as bad, they are intended to
palliate some defect in the person that introduces them. The petticoat
of a whole sex has been sometimes swelled to such a prodigious extent,
to screen an enormity of which only one of them has been guilty. And it
is no wonder that Alexander the Great could bring a wry-neck into
fashion, in a nation of slaves, when we consider what power of this
nature some little, insignificant, dapper fellows have had among a free
people.