The herald., 1896-11-11
GEO. M. PULLMAN's SON ON DRESS
Chicago's Most Eligible Young Bach
elor on Fashions.

OHlCdH5O MOSt EllSlUle IOuHS odCu-
elor on Fashions.
"Why is 1t that the public denounces
man as fop who aims to look well?
OF course I do not intend to vindicate
those who make simpering guys of
| themselves But I belive that it is the
duty of every man and woman to look
his or her best at all times. We owe it
| to progress and civilization.
Clothes, which began in the most
foolish love of adornment, what have
they not become as we end the century?
They have given us individuality. dis
tinction, social charm. They have
threatened often to make clothes
horses of many, but they have sue
| ceeded in making men of good many
more"
The speaker was Sanger Pullman,
the most eligible young bachelor in
Chicago, a Berry Wall among the men.
Every faculty of the dandy's soul,
spirit, purse and person is heroically
consecrated to this one object, the wear
ing Of clothes wisely and we'll; so that
as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Like an instinct Of genius, he is in
spired with cloth, poet of cloth. Yes,
the great philosopher called the dandy
poet, playfully abiding to the (stuffed)
parchment skin wherein he writes,
with cunning Huddersfield dyes, SON.
net to his mistress eyebrows But I
call him a fool"
With an amused smile, the son of the
| great railroad magnate referred to the
Partisan and Anglo daudacal tenden-
| cies of certain men in the matter of
dress. and the so-called domination of
| the Prince of Wales and the Count de
Castellane as leaders of fashion. With
genuine American spirit and thorough
going democracy, he denounced as
slavish and parasitic the weak-minded
foppish practices of ultra fashionables
in initiating the tastes of royalty. He
said:
THE Prince Of Wales, or any other
prince, has nothing to do with the d.
rection of fashionable taste. They,
| like the rest Of the world, have their
favorite tailors. The royal tailor to the
prince visits him and advises him. He
| Is just as much under the tyrannic rule
| of the man who furnishes him with
| clothes as the lowliest subject in an alb
! soiute monarchy. Men who follow the
| princes tatste in dress simply because
1t savors Of the purple, are cads.
Some one has just exploded the ridicu-
lous idea that the new elaborate waist
coats were made the reigning fashion by
the prince. AS matter of fact believe
that we caught on here in America be-
| fore his royal highness did They orig
mated in reality among the grimmiest
or the sporting fraternity of London
among the very stable boys. latter
sails think, was the starting point.
That is the only British fashion which
| has come in. All else is planned by men
of strictly American ideas and tenden-
cies. There may be a few New Workers
who like to import their things from
abroad. but beyond that am proud to
say that American men are always
American, even when it comes to mat
| ter of gloves or a hat.
There is no use trying any longer to
hot torIt fob IT,,
tellect and talent. or that color betokens
temperament or heart. Dress among
| men has become too unflinchingly con-
ventional. But slight deviation from
hard and fast rules characterizes the
fashion from season to season.
1.-The present dress Is IDEAL 1t Is the
result of the careful study of centuries.
1t is growth that is the outcome of the
thought of 500 years. The perfect fitting
sack coat, flawless in it's way has held
its own for years, mainly on account of
it's superiority. The plain black for even
ing wear has something so distingue, so
precise, so immaculate about it, that I
doubt whether it will ever be supplanted
by any of the talked Of changes.
writers on fashion have talked re-
peatedly of the need of radical change
in dress. They have wasted consider
able ink trying to revive the medieval
fashion of wearing velvets and satins,
paste buckles and lace. Imagine some
busy board of trade speculator. or a
portly alderman, or a policeman for eX-
ample, making merry in the city's high
| ways dressed in doublet and hose. with
stiff ruffs about their threats and buck
les on their shoes. l do not think that
we shall ever sink back to the semi-sav-
agery of scarlet velvet or even cooked
hats again. No sudden change or re-
progression to an old fashion will ever
occur.
Men are rather fixed in their ideas.
and without the tickle taste of women
| prefer to cling to that which they have
| found suitable. Women seem to be ac-
| tuated by desire to outshine one an
other in dress; they seem to give the
matter a more careful, even artistic
study. Consequently change. and a
| frequent one, is natural result. What
ever changes may occur in masculine
dress will be purely the result of natural
growth. and in direction which cannot
be prophesied, simply because that
growth is so gradual
"All efforts of late to bring about
change have not only been frowned upon
by ultra fashionable and conservative
men, but have even been decried. Such
a daring venture as wearing lavender
lined dress coat or a livery green or a
gray in the evening, experiments which
were tried last winter, were so ridiculed
that I scarcely believe these would-be
leaders of fashion, you know, will ven
ture again into the realm of the uncon-
ventional very soon.'-Chicago Times
Herald.
WHEN ROYALTY WAS YOUNG.