The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-03-18

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They MOST ABouNp.

ana new Ysrk Tralss AIanw Fifth-8
rrd probsbly be discharged. mobbed
and have All sorts OF things happen 70
me II said this over In the big town.
hut caf, name you at least four Amer
tan dies the men OF which are bet
tar dressed year IN and year out than
the men OF New York" said man
who travels Cor New York merchant
taiIor's supply house and whose terri
tory a the whole continent name
fhem IN the order Of their stnn1ing as
~ommunifIes inhabited by the pest
dressed men: Denver. San franciseo,
Cbtrarp and washington How do j
Arure itf Just accordfng.to the RUE
~ .Irht. that's all. I don't profess TO
know much about Egyptoiogy, but do
know . well dressed man when see
him. 1E
aAiind, 1 don't say that all OF the
men Of those four cities are better
dressed than all OF the men OK New
York. but I do maintain and say any
impartiaI man who knows the four
towns mentioned as they are now VIII
uphold me In maintaining that In ratlo
TO their respective populations the men
NJ Denver. San Francisco, Chicago anu
washington are very much better
dressed than are the men OF New York
OF course this has been the case only
In very recent years New YORK was
until, say, i've years ago away aheaa
of all its rivals as a city OF the best
dressed men. At that time IL you want
ed TO see hundreds OF perfectly dress
ed and perfectly groomed men engag-
ed in doing business all you had to do
was to take an elevated train up town
In the neIghborhood OF 10 O'Clock in the
morning and watch the men. young.
middle aged and old. who boarded the
train for the down town financial dis
trict.
"Of course you'll still see slews OF
thoroughly got up men down In the
financial district of New York. but not
so many by 10 per cent as formerly
On show occasions. such as Easter
Sunday afternoon. New York viii still
turn out finely chad batch Of men. but
I'm not talking about show occasions
now. I'm talking about men who are
well clad year in and year out, and IL
is in this respect that New York has
fallen into the also ran list.
when you meet up town In New
York n genuinely swagger man-not
fashily dressed man. but one who Is
thoroughly and properly rugged out
from his hat to his shoes-you are liza
bic TO turn around to get rear view
of him, and then the fact Is liable to
be slowly borne in upon you that he is
some member OF n theatrical profes-
sion whom you have seen upon the
stage. There are still plenty of fiashi-
ly dressed men circulating around New
York. but a fashily dressed man never
will be a well dressed man
"The reason why the men of Denver
are such a well dressed lot isn't entire
" clear to me. II can't be especially
because there are so many well on men
in that town. because there are myri-
ads of well off men i'm New York.
Maybe 1t is because. in proportion to
the population, there are probably
more men with large incomes in Den
yer than in any city on the continent.
not excepting Helena. that used to
bear that distinction. You scarcely
ever see badly dressed or an over
dressed man in Denver. Shabby men
Il
| don't call a shabby man a badly dress
cd man. A badly dressed man is one
who. while having plenty of means to
equip himself with a good make up,
hasn't the taste to do il and the fore
makes his appearance as a sIouch-
| that's the word for it-slouch. A shah
by man is simply a man who is on his
uppers and makes no pretensions.
The clerks and other men of very
moderate incomes in Denver, men who
can't afford to keep in the push as far
as correct dressing goes. don't make
any effort whatever to tog themselves
out in cheap. dismal imitation OF the
men with plenty Of money but, like
the young woman in the song, they al
ways dress In black The business
men who run plants of their own, how
ever. seem to pay just as much atten-
ton to the job Of getting themselves
ready for business on weekday morn
ings as they do TO the task OF arraying
themselves for social functions or
evening appearances
| Fasteners who have gone Gut To
the coast have often commented upou
the sweetness of the average well fixed
San Francisco man in the matter of
clothes. The San Francisco man with
an income certainly gets himself up
proper as we say, and he's got the
right kind of a make up for every oc-
casion. Take the race tracks around
San Francisco, for example Every
man who goes to the races out there
goes In a regular racing rig. from pad
dock coat to fieldglass and from the
top OF his fat crowned derby to the
soles Of his downs boots, and so dc
the Frisco women. for the matter OF
that. Another thing. Ill venture to
assert that nine out OF ten men i'm Sau