The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-14
MADE UP LIKE WOMEN.
New Tricks OF the Extreme London
Dudes

Dudes.
Painted men exist. They are to be
seen in London. They are the newest
freaks of melancholy. They have ex-
hausted all other forms of beauty and
would now entertain the world with
their frescoed visages, says the writer
in the Boston Herald
The first of these species that en-.
countered diffused soft scents. He
sat opposite me toying with soup
spoon and numbering the platitudes of
Piccadilly to an amazed spnster to his
right Before the dinner was finished
he had wiped out si!ver-mounted fan
and was waving it gently before his
ornamental brow. Over the coffee he
produced perfumed cigarettes and the
atmosphere became like that of a per-
tuners on hot day in August. His
fingers were covered with jewels, and
he wore dainty bracelet on his left
wrist. He was a creature Of most ex.
quisite decoration, and | watched him
throughout the courses in silent
wonder.
The creature was inaffable and he
purred at the company, never openly
addressing it He had, perhaps, three
ideas in his head, but he adroitly con.
ceaed them. His finest accomplish
ment was in looking at the ladies.
Soon after this | saw another speci-
men of this new fashion in trousered
humanity. Strangely enough the
second painted man was encountered
at an oratorio. They were doing
Gounod's Redemption" at the Albert
Hall, and the thing was in the box
adjoining ours. What it wanted there
what satisfaction it could capture from
an oratorio can never guess. 1t did
not listen once in the three hours. Ii
gabbled. 1t was for all the world like
hybrid of turkey and peacock. |,
gabbled and chuckled; it spread its
superb tailoring; it extended its ringec
hands; it admired itself in a pocket
mirror; it posed; it languished; it never
smiled, and it was thirty years old if {
day, and fat.
Having encountered two Of these
creatures, l kept vigil for others O
their kidney, Was it possible that {
new fashion in man had been pro
jected ? Evidently yes, because my
watch has revealed companions to the
primary pair. At a reception the othe
night l espied being more wonderful
than either of the two who started my
quest He was made up" like sec
ond-rate prima donna. His cheeks
had an even pinkness most delicatel,
laid on. His neither eyelids were pen
ciled, his hands were undeniabl,
lined. He was pattern in rouge, ant
he looked for all the world like one o
Nine. Tussaud's wax images, excep
that he was much better dressed thai
any doll in Marylebone road. He is
am informed, man of wealth ant
forty summers. 1t is alleged that h
has culture, and that he shows it in hi
writings about art and music. Where
fore the wonder increases that an
cultured being can paint himself
But it is to this that the dandifie,
are coming. have seen doze
painted men of an evening at the play
and they were not on the stage. Stroll
ling in Piccadilly of an afternoon thes
gentlemen disport themselves. 1t
getting to be, in the language of tn
time, quite the proper caper for dand
men to paint themselves A new horro
waits on metropolta in life. And tn
worst of it is that these bedizene
males are now SO numerous that the
are tolerated. In what is called tn
"smart set" they will soon cease to b
conspicuous because they threaten t
become general. Two years ago ha
the women in London society wer
painting themselves out Of all semblanc
to responsibility. But they seem to b
giving up the trick, now that allege
men are acquiring it.