Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
THE FASHIONABLE man IN AUGUST.
HE WEARS WASH SUITS. AND HIS LAUNDRY BILLS ARE IMMENSE,
BUT THAT is ANOTHER STORY.

New York. July 1.-The fashionable
man of the summer of 80 wears a suit
which can be washed, or, as his laundress
expresses it, "done up" Happy is he
who is not done up himself in the process,
for anything harder hat a mans suit
to launder it would be difficult to find.
The linen checks are the most fash
ionable materials there are. They are
made up as sack suits and as getaways,
and, in either style, they are very desira-
BILE. From a distance of four feet you
can not tell a linen check from a wool
check; yet the men is cool; and it is
for this very reason that the linen check
has become popular. No maj lives to be
conspicuous. and it is an ~undeniable fac:
that the white and tan wash suits can be
seen a long way off.
This. however, does not deter the man
of fashion from dressing in white. If d
mans occupation is such that he can con-
sistently do so. he should wear a white
duck, a white linen or a white pique suit
all summe long. Such changes as he
desires in his costume he can obtain in
his shirt and tie which can be as vivid
as he desires.
The white duck suits are now cut to
fit a IAN are the trousers. Time was
when every white coat fitted every man,
and a pair of white duck trousers could
be made to do duty on a little fellow or a
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more or less. But that is obsolete.
ELEGANT RIBBED PIQUE.
White pique with the tiniest rib run
ming through it is very natty for suits.
The pique trousers. with the white rib.
look almost like white cloth. They are
a little more expensive. though, thar the
duck: and where you can get a pair of
duck trousers for So you must pay a little
more than So for the pique. The pique
coats are simply beautiful. New York
tailors cut them to order on a mans
measurement: and you can order your
suit Monday morning and get it Thurs
day. Three white suits in duck. pique
and flannel respectively. will carry a
man through the summer for there are
rainy days when he wears a dark suit.
White flannel is Worn more for outings
and less for business. still one sees it a
great deal. Such business men as Henry
Clews. Addison Cammack, S. V. White
and d.. .. Mills dress in white for bust
ness: and so do such dudes as Freddie
Gerhard and Berry Wall. 1t is only a
matter of getting used to it, for after
a man has begun to wear white he will
wear nothing else. He feels so clean in
his spic and span suit.
The pink flannel man is seen only at the
beach: SO also the blue flannel specimen,
unless it be for the tennis and croouet
grounds where they abound abundantly.
Men who like to wear the frock coat
can be accommodated this summer with
a new style of frock. 1t is cut a little
shorter than the black frock coat and is
single breasted. 1t is not lined but is
simply faced two fingers deep down the
front and along the edge. It's lapels are
faced with silk and the sleeves are cut
rather short.
THE FASHIONABLE FROCK.
They are making this frock up in out
ing f1annels such as gray lannel in all
Shades, and even in striped flannel.
A gray flannel frock suit had coat and
trousers alike. The trousers We're worn
a trit1e short, which is a fad this sum
mer with those who do not turn the trous-
ers up at the ankles. They We're beauti-
fully cut n belled to a nicely at the
lnstep, While the back of the trouser leg
escaped the heel.
The coat was cut in at the waistline
and was buttoned with very large dark
gray buttons of pearl. This coat was un-
lined and had its deep facing of silk. 1t
was double breasted and was very much
like the new styles in frock coats as de-
scribed for other goods.
The patent leather shoe is so pretty
that it has led to it's close imitation, the
enamel. They are now selling-but a
man of any ingenuity can make one for
himself-a little board with a loop on
each end. A cloth is run through the wire
loop and a man, by placing his foot on
the board can catch hold of each end of
It is less degrading that the backing