The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-07-21
MORE ABOUT SHIRT WAISTS
Neat and Comfortable Attire For
Men as Well as Women.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence
New YORK, July 15.-Before saying
word to women l wish to congratulate
the men upon the courage they are
showing in the matter of wearing
sensible and comfortable shirt waist in
defiance of tradition which says that q
man must wear the hottest and most
uncomfortable of coats and vests in the
torrid days of summer. The shirt waist
for men Is neat and cool looking, and
no man can look neat or attractive In
heavy coat that sends the perspiration
out of every pore to be trap for the
dust. Nine-tenths Of the nervous irrita-
ton of men during the hot days is due
to the awful sufferings of the old re-
gime Men gave up willingly to their
adoption of the shirt waist, and why
now should they think it at all neces-
sary to ask woman to excuse them
for wearing a shirt waist in their pres
ence? Nine out of ten do this, and l
think It is wrong. If they feel that 1t Is
advisable to wear a shirt waist, then
they should not apologize for it. But
every man should wear one and look
his very best, and all the sensible wo-
men will admire them more than ever,
though that is almost superfluOus. The
trouble is that we all admire the men
too much as 1t is, even when the
streaks of suffering are penciled with
no unsparing hand on their faces and
necks.
But, all joking aside. the new shirt
waists for men are extremely neat and
pleasant to look at. They are made of
madras and other wash material, and
all that / have seen up to now are in
| modest and unobtrusive patterns. They
are considerably fuller in the back and
have convenient little pockets and are
altogether the right thing in the right
place at the right time. But no one
should profane the shirt waist by wear
ing suspenders with 1t, only a belt, and
this seems to hold In some occult way
by means oSstraps. Thus the garment
IL as dressy as a woman's shirt waist,
and, being so cool and so handsome for
| the purpose, we should all congratulate
| the men on so much good sense. And II
any man feels that any women looks
I askance at his cool waist let him re-
| member that 1t is another case Of 'the
woman tempted me, and did eat" for
woman started the style, we all know.
There is no end to the new designs In
the finest of sheer shirt waists, though
those for every day are mostly on one
| general plan, but the thin ones have all
manner of dainty fancies in which en-
broldery and lace figure and ribbon have
a part. But, whatever the style, there
is always more or less tucking. Tuck
ing has reached the stage Of fine art,
and one finds 1t In diagonal lines, cross
ones and in chevron form besides the
regular up and down fashion. Some
times we find all the ways of setting
| tucks In one garment, and In between
these are insertions of lace or fine en-
broidery.
In the illustration one sees some Of
the possibilities in the way of these ar
rangements. One is Of sheer linen lawn
white as snow, and on the waist and
bertha there is a vermicelh pattern of
pale sage green baby ribbon. This Is
also put on the sleeves. The guimpe
part is simply tucked. Ribbon forms
quite part Of the fine and sheer mus
lin waists, and they frequently have
lace insertions between the rows Of fine
tucklngs and the ribbon woven through
the holes. In pale blue, yellow, pink
and green this style is extremely fetch