The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-04
ABOUT MEMS SHIRTS.
coLORED CHECKS HAVE DISAPPEAR
ED AND PLAIN PATTERNS RULE.
The Unstarohed Bosom viii BE the Pre-
vailing Style This s-ason--Neckwear That
VIII BE Worn With Them Unattached
Collars WIN Have the Preference.

So soon as the time for business came
the gayly colored checks which were seen
In the shop windows early in the season
promptly disappeared, and patterns of a
more subdued design took their place as
the approved fashions for men 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 unstarchcd 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 a fashion that is likely TO continue |
for some time 20 come.
"The unstiffened bosoms," said New
York shirtmaker recently, met a demand
which men had felt for some time, and
with stiff collar, either attached or I'M
attached, the shirt was very much moro
usual than the cheyiots with the turned
down collars that really started the popu
larity of the negligee shirt in this country.
The cheviots We're 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 shirt
which might be made a little more dressy
when it was needed would meet the case
better. Before that time the cheviots and
madrases had been put through nearly
every possible 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 u new fashion, that
the new shirts came. London sent us the
style, whereas the former fashion with its
turned down collars had been of home
origin.
"The convenience of changing the col
lars has kept those with unattached collars
most in demand. In fact there has been
decided change in this respect in refer
ence TO shirts of all kinds during the last
few years About eight years ago 1T be-
came the fashion to have the shirts made
with collars. The difficulty of getting
collar of that kind made to fit well is
known, but Il shirtmaker who cannot do
it is not an expert ut his business. But the
shirtmaker suffered from 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 Il wonder they
can breathe The collar made on the shirt
was very much the fashion about I'VE
years, and as it happened to be for while
more the thing than 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 60 / don't believe 1t 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 $
/ apples again behind stiff band tight
enough to choke an Englishman nearly TO
| death We still have 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, un'
| less it be considerable decline III the
number of plated shirts. These were less
popular last year than they had peen'
They are difficult to launder, and they are,
of course, somewhat warmer. An addl
tional objection can be found in the fact
that the checks are not so well adapted tc
| the fashion as the stripes were. The fash
| I, hroa1 tnlnit down tla 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 so well
The heavier material is likely to breal
when stiff with starch in the plait ant
about the cuffs.
"a curious instance of conventionality
in dress came to our notice last year. W.
mt on the market shirt with bosom
less than ten inches deep. This gave th'
stiff bosom as far down as 1t was necessar!
with an ordinary waistcoat, and the relic
of not being compelled to wear the unnec
essary starched linen seemed very goo'
idea. But il was not popular although
we Thought that the demand for the sol
bosomed shirts showed that such novelt.
would be acceptable. But when maj
makes up his mind to wear stiff bosome'
shirt he Is willing to undertake the whoi
thing, and would rather do that than triil
with an innovation. 1t might be convent
emit, but it was new and unfamiliar, an
therefore it was not popular.
"Dress shirts show no sign OF change
and Il is not likely that they will for man
wears to come. am amused to hear Q
changes in these fashions such as EN-
broidery, frills or any other eccentricity
The perfect dress shirt Is the fine line
one with the two or three buttonholes an
the perfectly plain bosom. That marx
the beginning and end of what can o
, done to make perfect dress shirt. On
may occasionally see embroidered posom'
but the best form Is the plain, perfecti
fitting bosom. New York Sun.
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