The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-06-16
ABOUT MEMS SHIRTS.
COLORED CHECKS HAVE DISAP.
FEARED AND PLAIN ONES RULE.
The Unstarched Bosom WIN Be the Pre-
vailing Style This Sesson-Neckwear That
VIII Be Worn With Them-Unattached
Collars Will Have the Preference.

VIII Be Worn With Them-Unattached
Collars Will Have the Preference.
So soon as the time for business came
bhe gayIy coIored checks which were seen
In the shop windows early in the season
promptly disappeared, and patterns of
more subdued design took their place as
the approved fashions for mems shirts. 1t
is not to be believed that the goods were
all sold, for the negligee shirt, although
the day cannot be said to have come yet,
shows little sign of having been made from
such flamboyant materials. Checks re-
main as the latest designs, but they are
checks Of fainter hue than the colors
which lit up the shop windows for awhile
in the early spring.
The unstarehed bosom, which we first
came to know fully last summer and with
which we continued an acquaintance dur
ing the winter months, remains the style
that will prevail this year. Indeed its con-
VenienCe and usefulness seem to have
made fashion that is likely to continue
for some time to come.
The unstiffened bosoms,' said a New
York shirtmaker recently, "met a demand
which men had felt for some time, and
with a stiff collar, either attached or I'M
attached, the shirt was very much more
usual than the cheviots ~ the turned
down collars that really started the pOpu-
larity of the negligee shirt in this country.
The CheyiOts were for ten years as popular
as any shirt for summer wear could have
been, and they seemed satisfactory enough
until it began to be realized that a shirt
which might be made q little more dressy
when it was needed would meet the case
Better. Before that time the cheYiots and
madrases had been put through nearly
every possibl change. Their turned down
collars had been made high and low and
cut in different patterns But the posi-
bility of varying them in any way had
about come to an end. 1t was then, with
the certain appropriateness that invariably
marks the arrival of a new fashion, that
the new shirts came London sent us the
style, whereas the former fashion with it's
turned down collars had been Of home
origin.
1.-The convenience Of changing the col
lars has kept those with unattached collars
most in demand. In fact, there has been
a decided change in this respect in refer
ence to shirts of all kinds during the last
few years. About eight years ago it be-
came the fashion to have the shirts made
with collars. The difficulty of getting a
collar of that kind made to fit well is
known, but a shirtmaker who cannot do
it is not an expert at his business. But the
shirtmaker suffered from a disadvantage
entirely beyond his control. He might
make collar look all right, but he could
not make it feel just as the wearer wanted
it to. Americans more than any other
people in the world like to have a collar fit
closely about the neck. Look at the young
men who devote particular attention to
dress, and you will find that they wear
collars so tight that it is a wonder they
can breathe The collar made on the shirt
was very much the fashion about five
years, and as it happened to be for while
more the thing than a very tight collar,
the style survived. But it could not be
made to feel as tight around the neck, or,
for that matter, look as tight as the collar
that is buttOned on, so the attached collar
had to go. | don't believe it was missed.
Nine out of every ten men who had been
Clinging to the fashion were mighty glad
to get rid of it and compress their Adam S
apples again behind a stiff band tight
enough to choke an Englishman nearly to
death. We still have a certain call for the
shirts with the collars attached to them,
and this continues chiefly with the dress
shirts
This year will see no change in the
way of making these negligee shirts, I'M
less it be d considerable decline in the
number of plated shirts. These were less
popular last year than they had been.
They are difficult to launder, and they are,
of course, somewhat warmer An addi-
tlOnal objection can be found in the fact
that the checks are not so well adapted to
the fashion as the stripes were. The fash
ion of one rather broad plait down the cen
ter is probably the most popular this sum
mer, and any other Ornamentation is not
regarded as the best form. Madras and per
Gales are the most popular materials, al
though some of the rOugher cheviots, par
ticularly in the solid colOrs, make up very
effectively-but they do not wear 50 well.
The heavier material is likely to break
when stiff with starch in the plait and
about the cuffs.
"a curious instance of conventionality
In dress came to our notice last year. We
put ON the market a shirt with a bosom
less than ten inches deep. This gave the
stiff bosom as far down as it was necessary
Will al urulndry WalSJCOaU, anu Uhe rellel
OF not being compelled to wear the unnec
essary starched linen seemed a very goot
idea. But it was not popular, although
We thought that the demand for the sof
bosomed shirts showed that such a NOVELTY
would be acceptable. But when mar
makes up his mind to wear stiff bosomet
shirt he is willing to undertake the who'll
Ching, and would rather do that than trifr
with an innOVatiOn might ba pry, a
emit, but 1T was new and unfamiliar, ant
Ehanafnr.a L..