Cochise review., 1900-11-14
SHIRT WAIST MEN.
Will Not Be Seen Next Summer,
 Says an Authority.
Dtstan of shirtmakers Sounds the Death knelI Of the Ene intimate Garment - Back to the
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The shirt waist problem is hard CT thing for the shirt manufacturer to solve than the Pigs in Clover pug gle. To make or not to make, that is the question. Shall the shirt makers conclude that next season there will be great demand for mems shirt waists and accordingly turn out large number, or shall they decide that the shirt waist man was only one of the freaks of last sum mer and that next year he will be unheard of? says the Chicago Trib- une.
 This is the time of year when deal CTS lay in their stock of mems fur nishings for the following summer, and so now is the time when the fur nishers and dealers and the manutac turers are holding deep and earnest discussions on the vexed question "Is the shirt waist man here to stay?" Most of the manufacturers, according |, to. man who is e large dealer in mems furnishings. have settled the question by declaring in the mega tive. They cay the shirt waist man was only one summers toy That next year the man who wore shirt waists this last summer will indig Iantly deny the accusation if any of his friends remind him of the fact A half dozen of the downtown deal CTS who have, been interviewed said they had ordered their stock for next summer for mems wear, and thst they will carry only small number of shirt waists. Next summer the dealers say the demand will be for negligee shirts with plaited bosoms, and that will be about the only style on the market. It is expected that there will be . slight demand for shirt waists by most of the deslere, although there are many, who will carry none at all, while some others have ordered a good supply. The general concensus of opinion seems to be that what demand is made next summer for the shirt waist for men will come at the beginning of the season, Afterwards the plaited negh- gee shirt will take entire possession, and the few shirt waist men, if there be any, will become so lonely that they will either form 2 colony and preempt some island in the Pacific, or else they will have their shirt Waists idfsedited as plaitsd negiisee shirts
 This dictum of the shirtm.kers seems to sound the death knell of the shirt waist man. People may argue the question as they please and shiI waist men may rise up here and there and propheAy the emancipation of the sex and declare that next year man will al last be Comfortably clad Tn manufacturers are the ones who speak as with voice having author ,ty, They have had their ears to the ground and they know. The manu facruIers and the dealers are in pusi ness Tor the money they can get out or ,t They would just as soon rnake shirt waists as neghgee shirts with pleIred oosoms if they thought ncI would buy them. But they have da cided that men will not buy them and so they do not propose to lose money by making them, After the mems shirt waists parties and the in stance. of judges, professors ana policemen appearing in shirt waists aud afte. all the frantic declaration. that have been indulged in as to whether or not the male shirt waist would endure, it seems sao to reflect that the shirt waist for men was only deetag fancy and is gone like summers day cloud.
 There will be many thousands of negligee shirts with plaited bosoms for sale for an idle song. But from present appearances 1t looks a. though the male shirt waist had came and went"