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[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.”
