Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-06-17
THE DUDE Up TODATE
HOW A WELL DRESSED MAN SHOULD
GET HIMSELF UP.

Hints on Necltties, Underwear, Shirts and
Shoes.
Running rapidly through the main
features of the clothes which the dandy
of the day is about to fit himself out
with, we may say something about the
materials 1t may be said at once that
the fuzzy, rough stuffs used for year
or two in dress suits have entirely gone
out of fashion Why they should ever
have been admitted no we'll dressed man
knows. The materials now used, with
ont going into details of manufacture,
which / cannot pretend to understand,
are of smooth, not shiny, cloth.
In frock coats the same rule applies.
The long haired, fuzzy stuffs have been
abandoned entirely. The colors in vogue
are either black or dark gray. Some
men will select olive browns, which are
correct enough, but rather too pro-
nounced for ordinary occasions.
The same rule holds good with cuta-
way coats. In suits of dittos a great
deal of latitude is allowed. The best
English patterns show all kinds of
checks and plaids, which invariably cap
tivate the heart of the dressy young
man.
As to sporting suits, which nowadays
seem to mean only golf, there is great
choice of the widest kinds OF patterns
To these the stockings-for, of course,
stockings are half the combinations OF
golfing clothes-lend an almost endless
variety of color and effect There is al
ways an effort Oh the part of tho we'll
dressed golfer to finish the lower end of
his costume with remarkable plaids and
patterns. Our dealers in sporting goods
have quickly caught on to this fad and
show great variety.
As for topcoats, l do not see any
special changes or improvements over
last year patterns. The Inverness cape,
coming down to the heel, buttoning
close up to the throat, with wide col
lar, will be again the best storm gar
ment in tweeds and friezes, while the
smarter black yicuna lined with satin
will remain, as usual, the best night
coat to sling over one's shoulders when
in evening dress.
The sack overcoat, lined with satin
and faced with satin, is the only other
alternative to man who cares to cover
himself at night with cloak.
A man may be awfully well dressed,
so far as his coat, trousers and waist
coat are concerned, yet fail lamentably
when it comes to collars and neckties.
As to collars, it is simply imE ossible
to lay down any fashionable rule, be-
cause each man has got to dress his
throat as best becomes him. A high
masher collar on short, thick throated
chappie would, Of course, be absurd, as
would low lying collar ON a skinny
necked man. There is, happily, an in
finite variety of collars today which will
properly cover the neck and mako any
man look respectable and presentable.
Of course long throated dude will
stick to his London pattern of the high
est standing collar, with bent corners,
which, after all, seems to be the most
impressive and correct for his style of
beauty. The standup, turnover collar,
which has become SO useful and fashion,
able, seems to have come to stay.
AS for neckties, the dude can roam
over an endless variety Of patterns. 1t
is no longer fashionable to wear large
folding tie, with bejeweled pin, except
ON state occasions. For the coming
spring and summer everything tends to-
ward highly colored shirt front and a
bowknot tie of many colors, made to
look as much as possible like the wings
of butterfly.
These ties are made of soft silk, satin
or highly colored linen, to match the
shirts.
AS to shirts, the best models from
London, which, of course, we follow,
have entirely abandoned those fanciful
little plaits which were SO much worn
by dudes last year. The soft bosom
shirts shown this spring are in the most
attractive colors and combinations
pink, blue, gold and brown. Some of
the dealers have gone into exaggerations
i'll green and brilliant carmine. colors
which, 1t is to be hoped, our chappies
will leave alone. The same effects are
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pure silk, the last, of course, coming
very high. Men who wear silk shirts
get tired of them because they do not
wash we'll. and limitations are so perfect
that one cannot tell whether you are
wearing silk or cotton and silk.
Men have now come to pay the same
regard to those things which do not APP
pear above the surface. There is great
variety in Undertaking prepared for
men. Tony mind the best summer COW
reing for the legs is linen lawn, cut
off Mt the knee, with light jersey,
shown in many colors and stripes
The bell crown style of hat, which
seems to have been forced upon New
York last winter by a certain very con-
maker, had short life. The
prevailing fashion this spring is an al
most perfectly straight crown, very mod
crate rim. In pot hats the same conserv-
alive fashion prevails.
So with boots and shoes. The abomi-
nable toothpick pointed footwear sold
about town during the winter were as
far from correct form as ANYTHING could |