Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
FROM A CROSS THE SEA
LONDON IDEAS ON FASHIONS FOR
MEN.
A Tip on How to Clean Panama Hats
-Cravats, What, how
and When.
ondon Correspondence of the Haberda sher.

London Correspondence Of the Haberdasher.
I do not know whether tip on the
management of Panama hats-real ones
may be of any use to our readers. but as
some may very likely ask for guidance tell
what 1 know. A Panama hat can be cleaned
and restored to it's new appearance by a
very simple process. Simply remove the
ribband and wash the hat with ordinary
toilet soap-not strongly alkaline laundry
soap. but the soap you wash your face
with. Cold water-not warm-must be
used. A soft nail brush is the most eligible
medium of application. and when the hat
has been washed ct will then present a
yellowish appearance) 1t should be brushed
over again with the same brush (from
which every vestige Of soap has been scru-
pulously removed in the intervaD in several
changes of cold water. Finally, the hat
should be shaken until 1t is as dry as that
process will make it, wiped with soft
handkerchief and put out to bleach in the
sun during all the sunny hours of a sum-
mer's day.
Prince Of Wales Rebuked.
It seems that the Prince of Wales has
begun to be looked to as leader Of fash
ion. At all events, he has become respon-
sible for one remarkable innovation, calling
for. reprof. He has appeared in public
IfOiC tldH oiiSS NSeii Ing u 81 dS AioCh Soal
and-mark this, We muses-a double collar.
Consequently number of sycophantic
youths are showing themselves at the few
remaining London gatherings. at private
views and other public assemblies and In
Bond street and Piccadilly, where cannot
get at Them with the same unseemly COM
bination Now, the double collar, since the
beginning OF It, has always been lounge
collar. Only the most unspeakable persons,
from Birmingham and such places, wear 1t
with evening dress coat. or course. III
is worn with a dinner Jacket. but have
always maintained that man who will
wear a dinner Jacket will wear anything,
and even these men do not now wear dou-
BILE collar with their Jackets unless they see
fit to put ON at the same time dress bow
that is black. II they wear white one,
which is now often done. they wear a wing
or poke collar. OF course with an evening
dress coat white bow is essential.
In the daytime the Prince OF Wales usu-
ally wears a wing collar of neat type
small wings. rather close. He must really
not. after this, wear q double collar with
frock coat or indeed q tailed coat of any
description.
The Double Collar.
The attempt founded upon this princely
peccadillo to elevate the double collar to
the standing Of a full-dress appendage
takes this form-that the collar in its pres
ent shape-from ~ to TX inches highs
sought to be treated as dress collar,
while the old size. from 2H to ~ inches, is
to remain a lounge collar, which is intrin-
sicalIy absurd. The low double is not more
but less dressy than the high one, and the
street law of fashion remains unchanged,
namely this. that double collar of any
shape Is not seriously compatible with
either a high hat or a coat that has tails.
Even the Prince OF Wales Will surprise me
Il he can change this canon.
Now about Jacket suits. The vogue of
flannel for these suits continues, though
the stripe Of white or black advised by
some fashionable" writers is practically
abandoned. and my contemporary col
leagues have evidently derived their i'm
preeeions from men who are wearing out
their old suits Indeed, as shall show,
patterns generally are rather out OF fashion
and az Tin my humble opinion) most mod
ern and civilized patterns are aestheticaliy
bad, "a good thing. too" Ii my verdict.
But there are naturally good many men
who very properly object to the shapeless-
ness Of flannel. They do not like their
clothes to look like those Of the English
man In George AIDES Modern Fable-as II
they had been cut from steamer rug by
en- aged relative suffering from astigma-
tiSm, and then slept imam appearance
which q flannel SUIT 10 rather liable to
present. Yet fashion favors flannel. So
those astute men, the weayers OF English
tweed, have puryeyed them certain yarns
from which they weave q smooth cloth
astonfshingly like flannel In look, yet firm
enough In texture to keep their shape sat
isfaokoriiy. This cloth, In various shades
and tones Of pattsxnless gray. ~ very much
liked for golfng suits and other gzrmeuts
Tor country wear: and the flannel suit 10
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