It is superior to any other kind of dress that I have known.

To appreciate the benefits to be derived from comfortable clothing, you have to wear it for a while.

Dress should not restrain the free movement of every part of the body, neither should it be so tight as to hinder in any way the free circulation of the blood, or to interfere with the process of evaporation through the skin.

I cannot understand why Americans, who are correct and cautious about most things, are so very careless of their own personal comfort in the matter of clothing.

Is anything more important than that which concerns their health and comfort?
Why should they continue wearing clothes which retard their movements, and which are so inconvenient that they expose the wearers to constant risk and danger?
How can they consistently call themselves independent while they servilely follow the mandates of the dressmakers who periodically make money by inventing new fashions necessitating new clothes?
Brave Americans, wake up! Assert your freedom! It would be very bold, and indeed impertinent, on my part to suggest to my American friends that they should adopt the Chinese costume.