The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-28

worn with silver-gray cashmere SUIT,
and if any man wishes to know what
sort of tie goes well with this type of
vest, let him try a black bow or knot
picked out in small white figures
To invest a thousand dollars in spring
toggery on shopping expedition that
consumed one morning, was the record
of another leader in the New York set
that gives some time and brains 10 the
question of modern haberdashery.
Though a thousand dollars looks big
sum TO the man whose clothes are
necessity and not luxury of his lie,
it scarcely overstocks a wardrobe when
the purchasing is done at any of the
leading tailoring establishments. Since
the spring fashions crystalized two or
three important facts have been made
evident concerning the dress of Amer
lean men. The first is that the padded
coat is no longer a strange and inter-
eSting object. London tailors nearly al
ways pad frock and evening coats, and
artfully build a mans shoulders TO the
from they should have, and not On the
shape they may naturally display.
Every man. says the English tailor, has
a right to squared, broad shoulders, and
if nature has denied him this birthright
it's the tailors duty to make good the
loss.
Fashions From France.
The New York tailor was slow to
adopt this subterfuge, bat the first step
has been made, and hencefortn custom
ers will not even be asked whether they
wish their shoulders made for them or
not. The tailor will shape the top or
this garment, send it home, and sately
trust that no man, when ne has oo-
served himself in his new gabit, will
dare to have the scientific padding
ripped out. New York tailors and those
in other large cities put forth most Few
fashions as of English origin, but as d
matter of fact, great many OF our oeSt
fashions come from Paris, and though
an Englishman would cheerfully lay
him down and dee rather than display
on his person Gallo style, the An1erl-
can man knows no such prejudice.
For example, all the gay silk. Isle
and cotton hose on the market this sea-
son, the butterfly neck bows, the white
spats with summer shoes worn in the
afternoon. the new shape of top hat
and yet more details of dress on this
order are direct importations from
Paris.
Frenchmen have an Unborn fondness
for wearing jewels, and the rings and
watch chains we have ADOPTED CT ate
are all done on the Partisan pattern.
One detail of the toilet, now most :'opu-
lar in Paris, the American, however is
too nearly related to the Anglo-Sa
to adopt, and that is artificially curled
hair. OnduleS and creped tresses are
dominant, even universal, in the gay
capital, and they are secured by exactly
the same means that the gentler sex
employ. A good French valet mum Oers
his accomplishments the art of
waving hair with hot or cold tongs, but
il is here that the American draws the |
line, and takes his hair straight--evea
more rigidly straight and closely plas-
tered to his scalp than his British
brother.
Top Coats.
Men and their taiIors have come to an
a greement as to the continued fullness
of driving coats that show curiously
short shoulder seams, for in order to
give ample room at the armhole the
sleeve is set into rather tremendous
orifice made by cutting out generously
on the shoulder. Also it's the rule to
bring the seam on the sleeve to the up
per side of the arm, and at its top tc
make exact junction with the one on
the shoulder. In the rear a strap is
often introduced across the shoulder
blades to the effect that a double point
ed yoke is simulated. and this is done !
chiefly to lend an appearance of extra |
shoulder width, that the big armhole |
and high-set sleeve does so much &c
This is the type of coat that men who |
own motor vehicles and maneuver them !
with their own hands are. wearing, for /
that which is good enough TO drive |
horse in is quite suitable for a smart |
For bad weather a smart !
leather motor carriage coat is the /
proper garment. Pliable, waterproof |
brown leather is what this coat is /
made of. The leather is so treated that |
1t sheds rain like rubber, and yet it is |
not hot nor stiff and intolerable even. as |
the bast macintosh invariably is in |
summer weather. A motor coat drops |