The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-28

TIE husband starring mp, So id: DO yor
mean thit2 Toe answer was in the
Affirmative, AMI the Old fellow roared
Take away tie boar,l.
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GLaTI.f.aEN s DREss.
Sons 'lr,hinss IN Thaie kttirs thar. Nigh
Il Reformed
Hafptfa Bazar says: Certain, Eng
fish aft,sIs have ii.tels been testing
some If tbs features 81 mems dress by
the p.in.s PIE of utility. sometimes too
nafrow1I Construed One OF the first
thin.s ti.ay have condemned is the
cylinder lat, 1t would surely be hard
to. prove any basis of utility for that; it
seems equally ont Of the question to
claim for it that it is in itself orna-
1nental,, The best thing to be said for
it is that many mems faces look well
under the black cylinder, however alb
surd II MAY be in itself. There are sew
eral good substitutes. TIE black felt
..deer-stalker" fulfill, the requirements
of utility, aafi IS in itself OF graceful
lines; II maif 5 face looks as well under
it as unsief cylinder hat. The Tam
o Shanter, again, rs a ne plus ultra of
convenience, has no obje .te>nable lines
in its contour. and suits most faces. The
clerical round soft black felt is as con-
9aciye to s-respectahiiitg' of appear
ance rs ans possible head-covering;
otherwise, it would hardly have become
clerical
Next after the c'yiihder hat comes, in
The condemned list, the article we call
trousers. These. it is said. sin against
utility in that they ignore the knee,
whereas men bend their limbs at this
point hundreds of tiipes day. There
can be no question, with any one who
has tried them, of tire superior con
yenience Of the knickerbocker, which
dies not ignore the knee. but termi-
mates at it. So, seeing further that the
trousers are 4 garment with no claims
to grace, tire dress reformers propose to
rellnquish tronsers for the old knee
breeeites, II our gran'ifathe4's.
Oar present coats have not been as
siife5! VIII: ans great effect. The dress
coal s usually laughed at; but we
question ii ii could be fairly ruled in
Convenient, or on the whole ungrace-
full, when cnt without curtness. Prob
ably it gould be improved by rounding
off its sharp angles, and making it
fuller. Against the usual coat of morn
ing we..r in the present day little has
been alleged Is yet, nor do we think
there IS much 10 be said to its dttri-
ment. 1t is moi incouvenient, and it has
little at foolish ornament, unless we
reckon in that category the slit at the
wrist and the two never-used buttons
and bitton-holes. The two buttons put
on the wais, behind have been con-
demncd as useless. and explained as
s;nyiyals of the time when All gentle
men wore a sword, and required these
buttons to keep the sword belt in
place; but il is q question whether the
bnttons might not fairly pass muster as
uifaments Il detail, and in all probability
theF have been retained. in spite Of the
distse of the sword belt. because they
satisfy desire OF the eve for some
breaking point al the waist They may
pass then, as ornaments having relation
60 til. lines of construction
Neek-,ics ere another article which
dress rafocmegs would ike to see reou-
latch 70 construct a pasteboard and
ails article in sham folds of an unnatu-
raj snlootiness. and fix il under the
chin as If it wore really doing honest
deity as a tie, IS manfestly bad taste;
these constructions should be eschewed
by him who desires to dress we'll A
kercaficf which can be and is tied. or
passed through n ring. or folded flat,
passed round The neck, crossed infront,
and iixet with Il gold o. jewei5,l pin,
is the eligible substitute. Some men
MANAGE this quite fnultiesslv already.
Sti..1ing-up colln:s ;ausf be condemn,
ed III so far as tltcy stick up they are
and neccssitatc some
fastcnisr at the back OF the neck to
keep the tie IN place, whereas the turn
down collar keeps the tie in place and
ioas not present stiff edge 10 the cheek
Dr. throat.
Men who care to dress with any re-
gard to principle in other words, with
-aste-whl easily think out other de-
tails, or see notifications in the views
expressed above, which we should be
sorry 10 PAT nc Dogma though they may
serve 70 set tls thinking and discussing.
Some of the refoTmers call for more
color in men apparel. This is thing
to be desired. but also To be adopted't
with caution. To run into colors be- |
cause biacl. coat does not look we'll in |
a picture an objection frequently made |
to black would be rasa. The reason |
given against black is insufficient. il
black looks well in actual life. as. on the |
whole, it may be said TO do. Still, it is
probable that. with careful artistic guild |
ance, such rs viii not come all at once,
men might Use more color than they do
In this we want a guide, such as Morris
las been to us in carpets and wall |
papers. But it is not often that poet
will turn his thoughts seriously TO such