Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-02-06
SHIRT WAIST MEN,
Will Not Be Seen Next Summer,
 Says an Authority.
Dictum of shfrtmakers Sounds the Death KneII of the Eneminate Garment - Back to the
 NegIigee shirt.

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 a 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 manufac- 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 a man who is a large dealer in mems furnishings. have settled the question by declai ing in the mega tive. They say the shirt waist man was only one summers toy. That next year the man who wore shirt waists this last summer will indig- nantly 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 that they will carry only a 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 a slight demand for shirt waists by most of the dealers, although there are many who will carry none at all, while some others have ordered a good supply. The general concensus oS 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 negli- 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 a colony and preempt some island in the Pacific, or else they will have their shirt waists disguised as plaited negigee shirts.
 This dictum of the shirtmakers seems to sound the death knel of the shirt waist man. People may argue the question as they please and shirt waist men may rise up here and there and prophecy the emancipation of the sex and declare that next year man will at last be comfortably clad. The manufacturers are the ones who speak as with a voice having author ity. They have had their ears to the ground and they know. The manu- lecturers and the dealers are in busi- ness for the money they can get out of it. They would just as soon make shirt waists as negligee shirts with plaited bosoms if they thought men would buy them. But they have de- 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- stances of judges, professors and policemen appearing in shirt waists, and after all the frantic declarations that have been indulged in as to whether or not the male shirt waist would endure, it seems sad to reflect that the shirt waist for men was only a fleeting 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 it looks as though the male shirt waist had "came and went"