Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-12-18

bottles and other toilet articles is
much keener."
The duke of Marlborough is a fairly
sensible sort of young man, but he is
a good example of the drift of the
times as manifested in this interview.
So far as known, rouge does not
| figure on his toilet tables, but most of
the other appliances for makeup are
brought into play in making the duke
attractive. The husband of another
American heiress is a more notable
example of the powers of complexion
anipulators-hence the name of
Powder Puff by which Count Boni
de Castellane is known to mis- in
Inmates. This tendency to effeminacy
as noticeable in the manufacture OF
nearly all Kinds OF clothing for men
/ A certain cloth used for mems under
wear in one ultra-fashionable shop is
of such a fine texture that women
have purchased bolt after bolt for the
goods primarily destined for the
humber service of mere man. i know
| for a fact that this underwear ma
terial was in several cases made up
into dresses for the women who dis
covered it.
| Any Bond-street dealer will tell you
without the slightest hesitation that
he employs dozens of workwomen to
embroider dainty garments for his
male clients. One shop never sends
out garment without embroidered
initials and feather stitcing on it, and
another devotes its energy to decorat-
| ing the legs of mans socks with silk
initials and other needlework. A
fanciful conceit in this line is the
billiard-shirt monogram. The latest
fashion insists that a really up-to-date
man should not be caught playing
billiards without monogram or crest
on his shirt sleeves, just above his
left elbow Nothing, however, is more
Strikingly initiative of women's dress
than the newest departures in the
glove department and the collar box.
The latest glove for man is our old
friends the mousquetaire. This but
tonless covering for the hand is fire.
quently made of buckslzin, but / under
stand that the style will soon appear
in dress gloves. The mousquetaire is
almost symbolical of everything that
is daintiest and most refined in lie
| get-up of a dainty woman.
| The De Joinville tie and collar,
which is coming back into fashion, is
nothing more or less than the satin
stock made familiar by the shirt
waist girl The popularity of the
hunting stock brought the fashion
into being, and it is predicted by the
lhaberdashers that this shirt-waist-girl
collar will be the rule rather than the
exception in day dress for men. "This
affectation, am bound to say, seems
rather sensible" said the dealer in
mems wear. 1T may do away with
i the ugle stiffness of present-day col
lars, and lead to saner neclSwear.
must admit, however that the sanity
lin this case would be arrived at
through mediums which | sometimes
believe are anything but sane. We
men who dress men cater to these
new fads as matter of business en-
ldidly, we don't think it speaks very
well for the brains of the buyers
Mems shirts for evening wear are
now nothing less than So. muslin
creations such as the average Ameri-
can girl uses for her best shirtwaist.
| Waistcoats are heart-shaped and are
finished with a modest single-breasted
row of buttons. The Englishwoman' S
latest fancy-work is crochetting of
4 silk waistcoats for her men friends.
| Coquetish bow-knots are the thing
| for dinner ties, in black, and the
haberdasher says that gayer neck
ribbons are only biding their time
and will ere long descend upon the
| wardrobe of well-dressed English gen
/ tlemen. Then there are the hand
kerchiefs. Lavender, pale blue, pink
and delicate green are the favorites,
and, furthermore, the up-to-date male
handkerchief is soft and clinging and
/ frequently tucked and embroidered
In size, it often measures no more
! inches than lady's. | was amused
while being shown these pretty things
to have foisted upon me as an up-to-
| date English invention nothing less
than a quaint old red bandanna hand
! kerchief was assured that | had
| never seen anything like it before, and
smiled in memory of the old darkies