The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-29
FASHIONS FOR MEN.
4 BOOM GIVEN TO GREEN HATS
WITH GRAY FEATHERS.


Started by the Prince OF waies-straw
Hats and Summer Derbies-C Changes In
Neckwear-New London Clothes-Latest
Styles In Shoes For Well Dressed Men.
The green hat with gray feather, which
the Prince Of Wales wore last autumn in
Austria, was not unknown In America
when the cable brought over the news that
he had temporarily adopted this hunting
headRear Of the Austrian men. Such hats
have been on the back shelves OF some of
the New York hatshops for two or three
years. Now the force of the Prince of
Wales example Is making itself felt in
New York. and the distinct novelty of the
season promises TO be these green outing
hats. They are displayed In felt and In
heavy silk material like plush and are
made In various forms. Some are round,
with low crowns, while others have the
crown creased like the ordinary alpine
hat, and every one of them has its feather.
In some this distinctive decoration is at
the back of the hat and In others on the
side. The feathers range in variety from
ordinary fowls plumage TO the quaint
feather rosettes made in Vienna. While
these hats are intended primarily TO be
worn with shooting costumes, IL is not I'M
likely that with our broader point of view
they will be made to serve for golf and BIZ
cycling.
The straw hats this year are likely to fol-
low the English fashion more closely than
they have for several years. That means
that the crown will be higher and the
brims broader. The hat put ON the market
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around its brim was not great success,
and 1t is not probable that any more ex-
periments of that kind will be made. The
weight of the imported straw hats is the
chief objection to them, and even a man
who wants to be well dressed Is reluctant
to carry these weighty things around on
his head. Men who make study OF dress
ing know that in straw hats the small one
Is certain 10 be the most stylish. That is
the English principle of making straw
hats The best Of the summer derbies Is
still the low crowned. rather broad brim-
med hat, In shades of light brown.
The most notable change in mems neck
wear this spring is the final adoption of a
fashion which was started in London sew
eral years ago and was brought over to
America, but has been limited chiefly to
the few very well dressed men. Now the
shop windows are showing these fat
scarfs, tied, not In the customary Ascot
fashion, but with one end nearly allowed
to fall, with pin TO keep IL in place.
The scarfs worn in this way are the same
that were popular three or four years ago
and were then tied into tight sailor knots,
with the broad ends spread out over the
shirt bosom. The present style has one
disadvantage. Without valuable pin 1t
is not likely to be very impressive, but the
striped scarfs made for this use and the
rich colors arc certain TO give vogue to the
fashion even II only men who happen to
own valuable pearls decide to cling TO it.
The string ties that come from England
now are much broader. and are not cut,
moreover, in such way as TO give the
faring effect that was sought for two or
three years ago. The persian silks have
been put on the market in a new form.
They are very bright In color, and the old
subdued shades of dark red, blue and green
have been supplanted by the most glaring
tints, but even in their new form they
have a distinct smartness of their own.
The string ties for summer wear follow
the form of the silk ones and are broad,
without change of shape from end to end.
Four-in-han are not TO be had in the
persian silks without special orders, and
the best that come are as usual, in pongee
of blue and white and blue and red.
Some of the London tailors have sent
over to this country double breasted suits
made in dark gray checks or even dark
gray striped material so rough as to dis
guise almost the fact that there is really "a
pattern in the goods. The suits have dou-
BILE breasted waistcoats of the same ma
terial, and they show that the double
breasted garment is still popular in Eng
land whatever its fate may have been
here.
Some of the London between season suits
that have come over here are of dark ma
terial, which would look inoffensive enough
were IL not for plaid perhaps two or three
inches square that Is outlined in some
bright color. Some of these show on
dark brown ground narrow threads Of
bright rod, pale green or yellow, and these
clothes would ordinarily be quiet enough
only for country wear. In the summer
waistcoats that are popular in London the
light browns, in oolors that range from
cafe au lait to chocolate, are still popular
The extravagant dotted, spotted, barred
ribbed, varicolored harlequin waistooats
that are offered in some of the American
shops as the latest English fashion must
be reserved merely for the trade, as among
the clothes which the good London shops
sent to their patrons here one would look
In vain to find such combinations, or 1t
may be they are sold to persons who look
upon fashions of such brilliant color as the
only ones suited to their taste.
The well dressed men who wore button
ed shoes five years ago wear them still be-
cause they are the appropriate kind now,
Just as they were then, and as they have
been given up by persons who were merely
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fashion they are more than ever in demand
among well dressed men. A well made
buttoned shoe with a moderately pointed
toe and a sole Of medium weight is the
best boot that man may wear, considered
merely from the point OF view of fashion.
The sole should not be too heavy, and the
toes are always boxed by the best makers
One fashion that has never grown CON-
mon il that of patent leather pumps, and
they, indeed, are very much more worn in
England than they arc here. Well made
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