Correct Dress for Cycling Men of 1918

Gray golf stockings, tastefully variegated with touches of black, white and sober blue, or brown hose with very fine crisscrossing lines in yellow and red, now predominate.

Bicycling Attire for Men

THOSE still faithful to the bicycle wear in cool spring and autumn weather, a complete suit-coat, waistcoat, and knickerbockers-of serviceable gray or brown tweed, the coat cut very like an English pea-jacket, or what we prefer in America to call a "lounging coat." Gray golf stockings, tastefully variegated with touches of black, white and sober blue, or brown hose with very fine crisscrossing lines in yellow and red, now predominate. High or half-high laced shoes of black or brown leather dress the feet in good taste. But as this is too heavy an attire for mid-summer weather, it gives place, in June, July, August, and September, to a suit of Russian crash, heavy brown linen, khaki serge, or light-weight flannel. – From Emily Holt’s “Encyclopaedia of Etiquette,” 1918

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