The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
reddish tint. The toes are round-the
English round-toe, they are called.
HOW JOHN P. IRISH, ALFRE

reddish tint. The toes are round-the
English round-toe, they are called.
The trousers-they are changed fire.
quently, but on no occasion will you ever
find him attired in pair of trousers du-
plicate of which can be produced this side
of London. They cost from SIS to S23 a
pair. "Peg-top" trousers, you call them,
if you give them their correct designation.
They are wide at the thigh and grow grad
ually narrower till they fit quite snugly
over the shoe tops-laced shoe tops, by the
way. The Prince of Wales never wore a
gaiter in tan.
He wears single-bTeasted frock coat
with double breasted, silk-faced lapel
either too short nor too long, but always
of an unfinished surface. The coat is dark,
either black or very near that, and the
trousers vary from a decided white and
black check to tans, browns and olives
The waistcoat-called by the vulgar herd a
VESTS double breasted and cut rather
low. and yet not too low.
Ribbon Iinks-dark blue or olive green
in color-tied in bow with ends four
inches exactly, keep the cuffs from gaping
open. Only two specimens of those have
been seen in this city and they were
evanescent.
His neck is encased in three different
colars-only three. You will remember
that l am speaking of the well-dressed
man. The high rundown with long
points, the high rundown with square
ends, or the high, square, stand-up, three
inches tall, every one OF them, in the high
est part.
There is only one style of hat you would
find him in on the street in the afternoon,
and that is the wide-rimmed, soft hat.
light gray or brown in color.
On the street he is always dressed as
though he had attended a morning we'd
ding-and sometimes he does, YOU know.
But when he doesn't he wears colored
shirts in the morning, with the collar and
the tie all matching the pattern of the
shirt, and white duck trousers, if it is
warm, and sash and straw hat. But
he stays at home in the morning, or per-
haps takes a stroll in the park, and does
not come downtown till after luncheon.
1t was in the afternoon that met him,
and rightly guessed that no one could
discourse SO knowingly on the latest fads
and agonies in mems apparel as he.
Ana the guess proved true. He
hung his silver-tipped Congowood crooked
cane on the Palace bar, and while the
white-robed man set out the absinthe, he
remarked that it was wrong for the papers
to publish 1.-The real, true thing" about
mems apparel.
"Why? Because deserves to take awav
the real element in proper dressing-the
element of exclusiveness. A man wants
to dress like the others of his set, but he
doesn't like to see his neighbor with the
same kind of trousers-not man who
really dresses we'll, you know. However,
may say we are secure to a certain ex-
tent from that evil now. You see these
trousers? That's real Venetian olive
with large overcheck. A. Page Brown,
Marshal Bond of San Jose, Orestes Pierce,
DR.. Breyfogle and three other gentlemen
wear trousers of similar pattern and cut
though in different shades. And aside
from these no one who does not have his
clothes made in Lunnon can wear trousers
of this general pattern. Why? Because
the One tailor-Oh. yes, there is only one
tailor in San Francisco, you know-Would