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. (1860-1-28).
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.