The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20
DUDES uNEAsHloNAeLE.
TO Bo Succeeded by Quietly-Dressed Men
Of Stately Mien.


To Bo Succeeded by 0uietiy-Dressed Men
Of Stately Mien.
1.-THE dude? The dude IN N. G. He
has gone out of fashion," said a fashion
able tailor on Saturday. THE correct
young man this winter will be stately.
intellectual-looking and quietly dressed.
We are going TO approach somewhat to
the elegance of manner and apparel of
the old schooI. The dude really re-
manned in vogue longer than any other
type that have dressed during my ex-
perience with worsted and tweeds. I
ascribe that to the fact that the ladies
really dotted on him. Young men used
to come to my establishment weary of
the old inane type, but they hesitated
to abandon it, because they were afraid
of losing the admiration of the ladies.
But tell you some of my dude custom
ers were great as owners of clothes"
'For example?"
swell, 1 made one of them thirteen
overcoats and two listers in one season.
He had his head full of something he
called harmony of color and circum-
stances. He used to wear certain col
ors on dark days and other eolors when
the sun shone. Then he was always
very particular that his overcoat should
harmonic with the color of his trousers
and coat. He thought it absolutely
necessary, too, to wear an overcoat of
a certain color when he went out to
dinner and one of a different color
when he simply made call. True, he
took off the coat when he reached his
destination, but ell the same he had the
notion that certain color ought to go
with a particular occasion. That was
one of the things he called the har-
mony of circumstances. Another GUS
toner of mine, the son of a man who
had made millions and millions during
the war, told me that he had 800 suits.
Two rooms in his fathers house were
used solely as stOre-rooms for his DIR,
goods. Ali the same he had no more
idea of what good dressing was than 3
Hottentot. His dad seemed to me to
always wear tho same old-fashioned
suit, but looked at heart like man
with level head.
..My best dressed customer was
young man who never got more than
three suits year and was not fool
enough to pay top-notch prices, either.
He had the eye and taste of a gentle
man. Besides that. he had genius for
combination. He could make last years
trousers go with this years coat in a
way that made the arrangement appear
as if it ought to be the fashion if it
really were not. He didn't have much
money, but he went in a swell set, and
there was not one of the sons of
millionaires with whom he associated
that could come within block of him
as welldressed man. 1t is the taste
either of the customer or of the tailor
that must tell. Any experienced tailor,
if he is allowed to have his own way,
will make up for the want of taste in a
customer and make his patron look at
least presentable. Badly-dressed men
have only them elves to blame. They
haven't the first idea of taste, but they,
nevertheless. insist on having their own
ideas In such a case it is the business
of the tailor to obey orders, even if he
knows his customer will look like a
fool. If you have any doubt as to your
own ability 10 choose that which will be
mt once fashionable and handsome,
leave everything to the tailor. He will
turn ont the proper thing. ''--Baltinore
Herald.