Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-02-11
: A TAILOR'S OUTLOOK.
The Real Genesis of % Fashion for Gen
tIemen.

The Real Genesis of Fashion for Gem
tIemen.
The garment cutters present at the
meeting of their national association now
being held at the Burnet House, says the
Cincinnati Times-Star, make up an ex-
cellently well-dressed body of men. Of
course, it's their business to be we'll
dressed, but in accordance with the old
saw that the shoemaker wears tho worst
shoes, the tailors should not be very
well-dressed lot. Mr.. Fred Suter, of
New York, who is one of them, ascribes
their weIl-dressed appearance 70 these
one meeting addressed, but if he sees
that most of the others present are good
dressers, at the next meeting he, too,
will be we'll dressed.
New stvlesT" continued Mr.. Suter.
"Well, you know we don't make the
styles. The people make them and we
improve upon them. Someone who is
looked upon as 'way-up' wears gar
ment of perhaps peculiar cut. Some
one else sees and comes to us for 'one
! like Blanks There is the genesis of a
fashion.
s'There will be not much that is start
lingly new this spring" said Mr.. Suter.
"Of course in cloths the mater rails re-
main about the same, the only things
that change are the colors and comb1na-
tons of colors. These are just now of a
tendency to quietness.
''In trousers there seems to be more
and more a feeling of favor toward the
so-called peg top trousers-that is, wide
at the knee and smaller at the bottom.
Perhaps you or | may not see it in an
extreme form, but it will come [ am
sure.
''In coats the favorite is, and will
continue to- be, the cutaway. This
coats popularity lies in the fact that
during the day it is always dress, and
therefore is in good form for almost any
occasion. For dress occasions during
the day it has aim, st wholly supplanted
the frock or Prince Albert. The Prince
Albert is difficult coat for manv people,
especially man at all inclined to be
spare and slim, to wear. No matter
how we'll the coat may fit or how we'll
he may be dressed in conjunction with
the Prince Albert, a spare man looks
more Or less like farmer in one. That
is the reason it is waning in popularity.
In cutaways the three button will con-
tinue to be the popular one. One but
ton wouldn't seem to make much differ
ence, but the people seem to prefer it
with only three buttons.
''Then with three buttons hand
somer garment can be cut. Yes, they
are being cut lower at the neck as in
the vests. Vests are being lower and
lower, some of them almost as low as
the full-dress vest. The double-br8ast-
made up i'll fancy goods of quiet pat
terms.
"In full-dress coats the shawl-collar,
that is rolling collar unnotched, is the
great favorite, especially among the
younger men. The silk facings are
made to run all the way to the
edge of these collars. Of course
the notched lapel collar is still worn
and is not questionable. A coat that
is becoming more and more popular
for stag dress occasions is the Tuxedo.
1t is a dress coat and yet It has q
lounge effect. But it is not to take the
place of the dress-coat entirely, al
though an effort has several times been
made to make it do so.
SIN full dress vests there should be
great latitude allowed in the colors. A
white vest, or even light buff, lights up
the otherwise somber appearance of
the man in full dress. Nowadays the
wearing of lavender trousers is having
somewhat the same effect On oc-
casions when a dress suit is worn one is
supposed to be enjoying ones self,
and the funereal appearance of the
men on such occasions should be done
away with"
But think of lavender trousers and
buff vests in soot-rotten Cincinnati
Many an ''impecunious swell'' will
shudder at the prospect It may be
costly but once it gets hold he'll have
to get them if he wants to be sin it,