Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-04-20
= SOME CRUMBS OF CULTURE.
Boston Dudes Likely 70 Back I'D
the Reform In Evening Dress

soaton Dudes Likely 20 Back Up
tine Reform In Evening Dress.
Swell young men OF Bostoa express
not a little disgust that the New York
handles should have anticipated them
IN the movement for evening dress re-
form. The modern Athens has long
regarded 1t as its own peculiar function
and provocative to make Innovations
which subsequently arrive through pop
nlar adoption at the condition OF fads.
A creative monopoly of ideas Is what
this enlightened metropolis lays claim
to. But In this case, alas! there Is no
resort but TO follow the lead OF vulgar
and uncultivated Gotham. II Is not
that the notion OF improving on the
conventional dress suit Is a new one.
For two years past the subject has been
under discussion here. The misfortune
Is that the dudes OF Manhattan island
should have secured all the credit by
introducing the thing first In news
paper dialect, 1t was tho biggest sort
Of ''beat."
The fashionable youths OF Boston en-
terrain conservative opinions in mat
tiers Of dress. For instance. they have
never given their approval 70 that I'M
utterable abomination, the striped
shirt, with bars Of light blue or pink
and white collar attachment. which
has been recently the style In other
cities. Such crudities OF personal de-
coration. they think, are suitable rath-
CIR TO horse jockeys than to the uses OF
gentlemen. Striking toys OF any sort,
in fact, they would eschew. But tho
evening dress reform movement u In
the direction Of aethetic sartOrlal de-
yelopment, and thus cannot fall 10 COM
mand Boston's appropriation. This
given, It's success is at once assured. IL
rumor be- not very much astray, tailless
dresscoats and black silk knieker-
bockeres are ut this moment In
preparation at the studios OF two or
three OF the swellest local tailors, for
wear by certain gilt-edgs young per
sons here before the coming Lent A
concerted effort Is evidently 10 be made
very soon TO render tho novelty popu-
lar on Beacon street and tho Back bay.
Be not surprised II. within week or %,
your newspaper contains telegraPhIc
dispatch from this quarter. conveying
the momentous intelligence Of tho in
dorscment OF the new costume by BOs-
toms incompatible jcunesse dorce.
Let IL be understood. too, that Bos-
ton Is very proud Of her gildcd youth.
This is an enormously rich community
the most 50 for Its sizs In tho world
and there is no lack OF spending
money for the boys whose papas own
western railways and mortgages on the
farms and towns along them. In poIn.
OF thorough-going idleness, 50 far a.
labOrlous occupations arc concerned.
the bcan-ied dude Is not exccllcd by
any Of his kind elsewhere. The CT.
treme languor OF his New York rival.
however. he does not at all affect. On
the contrary, he Is apt To b. athletic
and much given 10 outdoor sports. Il
not the amateur tcnncis championship
OF the world even now held by X. ID.
Sears, q scion OF Boston's wealthiesl
family almostP The result Of this Is
that the local calf IA cXccllgntiy dc.
Veloped, a fact which has an important
bearing upon the question Of wearing
knee-breeches.
At any rate, Il may almost be con.
sidered settled that tho present turkey.
buzzard costume for evening il soon "a
give place to more decorative apparel.
II so, the change will not stop short
finally at black velvet coats, black
knickerbockers, black silk stockings
and big silver buckles. Bright
colors will be introduced and expensive
materials will transform the dandy Of
the next decade into as gayly plumagud
a bird as tho contemporary female Of
his species. Everywhere through the
animal kingdom the male exhibits
more gorgeousncss ia its dress than tho
softer sex. Why should It DO other.
wise with man? An alteration In thl.
matter Is unquestiondbly approaching.
The recent adoption OF waterod silk
waistcoats embroidered shirts and such
vanities, points in the same direction.
Before many years it will be- though,
nothing strange to soc young man a,
an evening party attired In sky-blue
silk jacket worked with silver. flame.
colored silk kneo-breeches and lace
rufiied shirt. Possibly he will wear
his hair powdered and adorn himself
with no end Of bijouterie. Imagine
what thing Of beauty real dude.
not cheap one would be under such
conditions. Tho time will then have
passed when 1t is possible TO make a