Evening journal., 1900-01-02
WISDOM OF DRESSING WELL


FINE CLOTHES. AS OFT BEEN
SAID, MAKE a GOOD IMPRESS
SION.
Though at first glance it would seem
frivolous topic and unworthy OF
space in the editorial columns Of a
daily newspaper, the question Of dress
as a commercial factor ranks as one
extremely interesting and actually imr
portant
II is Of great interest to study the
rapidity and varied manners in which
personal adornment has changed and
advanced with time. With the neces-
sity Of striving arduously for his liv-
ing, came the development of mans
Ingenuity, and the line of general i'm
provement included dress In its scope.
For many centuries in the region i'm
mediately surrounding the birthplace
Of man, long flowing garments were
in use, to be changed later on by the
enterprising Romans to the graceful
tunic, toga and poplus. These changes,
in the course Of time, penetrated into
the northern countries, and gradually
displaced the rough garments Of hides
and loin-cloths which were at first
typical Of the inhabitants.
So has the mode OF dress changed
and improved itself with the passage
Of time, and by the aid OF that same
potent factor its Importance has in
creased and perhaps has not yet as
|sumed its destined proportions. There
can be no doubt in the mind of the
average reasoning man that the matter
of dress does exert a vital influence on
f,fI ne
woman of today A. well and neatly at
tired man everywhere has the advan-
tage Of ono who takes no pains with
his apparel and whose clothes might
be shed annually like the skin of the
snake IL it were not for the inviolable
customs of the age. 1t is fact, per-
haps lamentable, but nevertheless pat
ent. that a business man prefers deal
ing with another who is attractively
dressed, whose face is clean shaver and
who is in the habit Of wearing clean
collars, to his brother with whom dress
is less than a secondary consideration,
and who contents himself with the re-
| Election that handsome is as hand
some does
There are a great many men who de-
cry this tendency to personal adorn-
ment in others, and whose lips take q
scornful curve when they refer to the
dude" or his equally frivolous sister
Is il crime or a fault to accentuatt
personal beauty, or neutralize the eff
feet of natural LONELINESS by tastinesl
i OF apparel? lis there any reason L
icensure the man who wears 19ghter col
ored or some more fashionably SHAPED
garments than ours because we prefel
for ourselves the more somber an6
conventional garments? To be SUR
there is a distinction between the maj
who dresses for love of dress and tn
one who does so from principle or from
business reasons. But it is a distinc
ton with which the average critic o
the we'll dressed man seldom bother
himself. We are always taught t
look at the brightest side Of life. Thei
why ridicule these niceties Of dress
!. which certainly please the eye, AM
which much more certainly give a NAL
feeling of self-possession and salts
faction, which, too, is far removes
from the ever-to-be-cOndemned fault o
conceit or dandyism.
- At any rate. the man who is not to-
philosophical to pay some attention t
, the manner in which he appears befor
I the world can rest convinced that hi
: little quality is good policy. 1t is, Il
\ fact, so much capital, and anyone VIII
I, doubts it, can satisfy himself by usin
u his eyes and his reasoning powers. o
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