The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-02
WE'LL DRESSED MEN.
ORDER OF THE CITIES IN WHICH
THEY MOST ABOUND.

ORDER OF THE CITIES IN WHICH
THEY MOST ABOUND.
An Expert Says Denver Heads he
List, With San Second,
Chicago Third, Washington Fourth,
and New York Trails Along Fifth.
I'D probably be discharged, mobbed
and have all sorts of things happen to
me If l said this e in the big town,
put l can name you at least four Amer
Acan cities the men of which are bet
ter dressed year in and year out than
the men of New York." said a mar
who travels for q New York merchant
tailor's supply house and whose terri
tory is the whole continent. .Tll name
them in the order of their standing as
communities inhabited by the best
dressed men:t Denver, San Francisco,
Chicago and Washington. How do l
figure it? Just according to the rule
of sight, that's all. l don't profess to
know much about Egyptology, but l do
know a well dressed man when l see
him.
mind, l don't say that all of the
men Of those four cities are better
dressed than all of the men of New
York, but l do maintain and say any
impartial man who knows the four
towns mentioned as they are now will
uphold me in maintaining that in ratio
to their respective populations the men
Of Denver, San Francisco, Chicago and
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, five years ago away ahead
of all its rivals as a city of the best
dressed men. AT that time If 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 n~eighborhood 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 20 per cent as formerly.
On show occasions, such as Easter
Sunday afternoon, New York will still
turn out finely clad 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 it
is in this respect that New York has
fallen into the also ram list.
when you meet up town in New
York a genuinely swagger man-not a
fashily dressed man, but n who is
thoroughly and properly rugged out
from his hat to his shoes-you are liza
BILE to turn around to get a rear view
of him, and then the fact is liable to
be slowly borne in upon you that he is
some member Of a theatrical profess
sion whom you have seen upon the
stage. There are still plenty of flashi-
ly dressed men circulating around New
York, but q iashily 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,
'ly clear to me. 1t can't be especially
because there are 81 many well off mer
in that town. because there are myri
ads OF we'll off men in New York
Maybe it is because, in proportion tc
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 tt
bear that distinction. You scarcely
ever see a badly dressed or an over
dressed man in Denver. Shabby mel
there + in plenty. of course. but
don't call a shabby man a badly dress
ed man. A badly dressed man is on,
who, while having plenty of means t.
equip himself with a good make up
hasn't the taste to do it and therefor,
makes his appearance as a SLOUGH
that's the word for it-slouch. A shah
by man is simply n man who is on hi
uppersa and makes nc pretensions.
.'The clerks and other men of yer,
moderate incomes in Denver, men VIII
can't afford to keep in the push as ia
as correct dressing goes, don't max
any effort whatever to tog themselve
out in cheap, dismal imitation of tn
men with plenty of money; but, Xix
the young woman in the song, they a
ways dress in black The bushes
men who run plants Of their own, how
ever, seem to pay just as much after
ton to the job of getting themselve
ready for business on weekday morI
ings as they do to the task Of arrayin
themselves for social functions G
evening appearances.
sEasterners who have gone out I
the coast have often commented upo
the sweetness of the average well ixe
San Francisco mar in the matter {
clothes. aThe San Francisco man wit
an income certainly gets himself u
proper as we say, and he's got I'll
right kind Of a make up for every o
casion. Take the race tracks arour
San Francisco. for example. Ever
man who goes to the races out the
soes in a regular racing rig, from pa
dock coat to fieldglass and from tt
top Of his fat crowned derby to tt
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