Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-12
MEMS UNDERDREss,

| The Uncongenial and UnEracefui Gar
ments of the Present to BE Abolished
| FIcm the Clothier and Furnisher.
In the interest Of the attribute that is
| rated next to Goodness, the undershirt
should be buttoned all the way down the
front and be put on and taken off as is a
coat. Then 80 per cent instead of 10 per
cent of undershirts would be discarded be-
fore retiring.
There would be no ungainly exposure Of
cuticle in such a procedure and the wearer
would be saved the humilitating tangle
which the prevailing undershirt involves
him in. There is nothing so unpicturesque
lord fighting his way through his series Of
shirts. 1t is a advertisement calculated to
| rob even the honeymoon OF much OF Its
romance. 1t Is small wonder that after
such a performance the ideal of heroic
| manhood should be shattered.
The present scheme of masculine under
dress is uncongenial and ungraceful. The
overhead ordeal has driven many votaries
of the night robes-which should button
down to the front-to pa tamas, the most
comfortable and feasible slumber garment
of summer.
The hath robe is a harbinger of delight
In IL a gentleman is securely enveloped.
with its cord and tassels at both the waist
and neck: its pattern. the while, giving
the wearer a consistently dressed appear
ance that is calculated to disarm comment
The test of the correct system OF mascu-
line Cnderdress is the wearers self respect.
To secure this some of the later-day swells
have had their undergrad made to order
| in accordance with their own advanced
notions.
1t is a well known fact that the open-fronr
shirt. that goes on like a coat, is now large
ly worn by the denizens Of swaggerdom,
and that the Earl of Craven adopts this
| shirt. The merchant travellers that live
in sleeping cars half the time must have
these shirts. owing to the impracticability
of getting into the regulation shirt In the
confined quarters Of a sleeping car berth.
The newest thing in coat shirts is the ex-
ample with the double breasted effect In
the skirt There are several well known
high-class mems furnishers that make
| trainers of Gotham. The garment opens
in front all the way down, save that the
skirt in front, like the double breasted
waistcoat, laps over and buttons down
each side of the skirt from the watstline.
The idea is an excellent one and finds new
advocates IL becomes known.
Most OF the mems furnishers are miles
behind the times. for with enterprise they
greatly enhance their custom made aggre-
gate.
The inculcation of the fitting out of a
prospective groom in a full complement
of underdress is a capital and apropos idea
which largely augnents the sales Of the
mems furnishers that heartily favor such
a lucrative innovation.
There is an essential refinement in these
right minded theories with reference to
undershirts. shirts and night shirts. 1t
seems positively brutal to wrench off one
undershirt at night and nightgown in the
morning with the attendant display of
! Nor is there need for It with such cur
riculum as has been devised TO happily
| alleviate the recurrence thereof and perme-
ate every refined household with rational
demeanor that will serve to inaugurate.
| in the language of Rip Van Wrinkle.
| Long life and happiness"