The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Sybarites of the Shop

Anonymous. "The Sybarites of the Shop." Vanity Fair, January 28, 1860, 72.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
satire
Abstract

Tongue in cheek complaint about men having usurped a job women should naturally assume: a dry-goods clerk. This work is turning men into ninnies and pansies.