The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
STYLES IN MEMS CLOTHES.
Wide Range Allowed to Individual
 Taste

Wide Range Allowed to Individua
 Taste.
 The diversity of styles in mems
 clothes, which has been so noticeable a
 the horse show the past week, is 1T
 strong contrast with the single stand bard of fashion which prevailed a few
 years ago. When the name dude" was
 coined it described a class of men who
 were recognized at a glance wherever they went. For several years the dan dy of the season was dressed like every | other man of his class. He was pictur- ed truly in the newspapers, and he was caricatured by them. The styles for
 mems clothes then were more extreme
 than they are now. Moreover, a man
 with desire to dress in the fashion was
 not expected to wear the style of clothes
 which most became him. He must fol- | low the single standard set up by men
 whose names became known because of
 their clothes. He might not go to the extreme of those fashions, but he must | approximate them. For instance, the | fashion of having trousers cut so tight that the wearer got into them with diff ticulty was extremely trying for men who were thin enough to be conspicu- ous in these garments or had the mis- fortune to be knocked-needed or bow legged, and yet rather than be behind the fashion they wore these ciosely-fit- ting trousers. There was the same uniformity in hats. The style for one season resembled pancake with a slight suggestion of brim, and every man who wanted to be well dressed wore such hat The skirts of cutaway coats suddenly increased in length until they reached far below the knees, and when worn by fat men they suggested the tail of kite
 There has been in recent years gradual breaking away from set fash ions in mems clothes, and 1t would be difficult to describe the typical dandy of the day Because the horse show comes at time when new season is just opening it's sartorial styles are looked upon as decisive. There were more varieties of mems clothes worn at the show this year by men who are recognized as leaders in dress than ever before, and a visitor might safely draw the conclusion that the well dressed man in New York now was the man who was guided only in a general way by the prevailing fashions as announced by the tailor and who corrected them to suit his own individual taste and style. Almost every conceivable block | of derby hat was represented by the l men who appeared in the short sack : coats, which are merely a | icI, nf bn h,,e ,,i They ranged from the small crowned | hat, which was put forward early in the | fall by the hatters as the proper article | of headwear, to the oldfashioned high | block worn by several men of fashion, who now wear the same style of hat l year after year. The two brothers who were conspicuous first few years ago l. because they wore always peculiar model of derby hat and later became known for other things would attract 1 low no special attention by their der oies. In fact, the individual block, if becoming to the wearer, may now be lsed year in and year out
 The sack coats which appeared in un- lsually large numbers vary in a gen. .ral way from the sack coats of a year lgO. They are little shorter and there s just q suggestion of a spring or flare rom the waist to the bottom of the oat. The man who exaggerates in his lothes wears sack coat that suggests
 French soldiers army tunic. The rousers are all larger around the hips, md in some cases almost baggy They re cut to hang straight to the foot, down to 8 peg-top effect. lt