The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-25
CLOTHES AND THE MAN.
What an Arbiter of Fashion Thinks
About Elegant Attire

berry ~ az IN AeW YORK Herald.
To dress well may not be the chief end
of man, but the character of his tire GER
tainly has a great influelc on his fate in
life. | never could understand why any
one should despise dress. That certainly
is an affectation. If l am wrong in tuat
statement, then surely the uncad savage is
right. We're l to limit my PERSONAL adon-
ment to a /. eech clout | should be escorted
either to a police station or a madhouse
Well, then, doesn't it stand to reason that
if to dress is good to dress well
IS better, and to dress proper
ly is besta Men may say what they please,
and laugh at what they plels., and sneer at
what they please III this matter, but the
man VINO does not aim at perfection in
dress according to his understa ding of 1t
is the rare exception and not the rule. OF
course a mans views in this particular vary
according to his position in life and the ed
ucatiOn Of his surroundings.
Buffalo Bill is o 9 of the best dressed
men | ever saw. 1t is true that when he
walks along Broadway all stare and some
| laugh at his wide brlmmed hat and the
| long, curling hair beneath. Yet he has
| reached perfection in dress acc riding to the
manner of the people he has longest been
associated with. For a New Yorker to
wear such an attire would be as ridiculous
| ana as cenSur tble as for a bod carrier to
mount his ladder dressed in a swallow
tailed coat If to aim at perfection i'll dress
! is right for woman and wrong for man,
| then the hideous garb If the Quaker must
he commendable and we should accept it.
Yet, showing which way mans thou rhts
| naturally tend, | have met members of that
| dress scorning sect who were extre ely So
! licitous with their tailor that their coats
should be of the finest broadcloth and of
the true shad-beilied cut, and who would
! not wear a hat fraction of an inch less Or
| larger in its rim than is req Tired by the
! perfection of broad brim patterns.
Horace Greeley wore shockingly bad
white hat aud no one jeered At it because he
WIS distlug Iished ma and t at hat be-
came distinctively part of his attire. That
was the Greeley perfection in dress. II APP
! pied to HIM alone. To certain extent 1T
was an ahectatlon. If You or wore one
like it we should be hooted at, and de.
| ServedlY so.
THE BEST DRESSED MAN.
don't imagine that | n ret err qualified
| than another t. declare what constitutes
| perfect n In dress, but til nix that am ing
| gentlemen there will be no dissent from the
proposition that the best attired man is he
who d esses with quiet elegance and VIII pse
| apparel does not instantly catch the b.
| some glarilg detail. Right here | wish to
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don't clearly u iderstand, and that is what
| is meant by the much used word dude "
| | don't know how it arose and it is ussd so
| variousy that | am at an utter loss to COM
preIend its meaning. 50 far as my obSet-
vatio goes, it appears to be most generally
applied to very young men who wear very
| small ha aud very large and very
loud clothing and who are never without
canes as thick as themselves. Thls class of
youths Q, without exc ption, the worst
dressed persons VINO disfigure Broadway
The la enable negro swell OF Sixth avenue
is fat better dressed than til Sc, because h.
simply gives vent to his hereiita Y barbaric
desire for hashy col}rs, and accordi. TO
the views of his people he has really reached
perfection in dress
but the Broadway youths to whom have
referred, and VINO are chiefly clerks i'll the
large ret al dry goods shops, are only SER
vile imitators. Tney don't even initiate
what they ATTEMPT to. They seek TO y t.
tern after the latest English STYLES. but
they are blisSfully ignorant of the fact that
the loud dress which they mimic is not
worn by the English gentlemen and only by
the English cock ey.
If we wish 10 b rrow an excellence pos
seSsed by our nelgnbor we should be able to
do it intellIgeatly and use it in
diligently. But | do not bla lie the
| iguorancs of the deluded cockney imitators
50 much when l see both coachman and
FOO man atop some of the most stylish car
| rages on Fifth avenue wearing cockadeS on
one side of their hats. The Gust IN is Dor
| rowed from Londol. But how laughabl9
it must seem to the Enghshman who knows
that the cockade is only wora in England
, by the servan S of noblemen who hold po-
sltions in either this army or the navy!
GLOVES AND NO GLOVES.
Equally ridiculous was it for our young
men, IA few years ago, to take up the El-
giish fashion of not wearing FL ives in a
ballroom, As every one knows, l suppose,
/ the custom had its origin in the fact that
the Prince of Wales upon one occasi n,
! when attending public reception, through
an oversight brought no gives with him.
! Tho &c tlemol III attendance upon him.
with what was certainly thoughtful our e.
sy to their prospective king, removed their
81 ives. Others imbated the exa uple. Thus
a new fashion had is BIRTH but was an
uuthinking and uumeaning imitation which
introduced what is really ooorish custom
anon the young men Of tais country. 1t
was long matter of surprise to me that
the fashionable wo neu of America did not
assemble i mass meeting and dignah tly
| vow not to whirl il the altz with any
man who would place hot. uncovered hand
up the dehclUe fabric of au evening COS
tame. | au glad 10 see that the.e has at
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