This past weekend I traveled to Toronto. I went there for two reasons: to see the exhibit called “Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century” at the Bata Shoe Museum, and to meet my friend … Read More
In 1675, King Charles II of England banned coffee houses on the grounds (cough) that they had become "the great resort of Idle and disaffected persons." The ban was ignored.