The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09

and it can't he said that one is essen tally
more correct than another
In a company of well-clothed men they
will all be represented. and there will b.. also
"A variety Of hats, stiff and soft. shoes. col
lars, neckwcar and gloves that will afford
ample play for the fancy of him who knows
what accords with his natural form and
front.
II is a fact, too, of blessed convenience
that fashions changes from season to sea-
son are not violent. They glide almost
imperceptiby from one modification, so
that they are hardly noticed until COM
PARSONS are made, which cover consider
able period.
1t will probably occur to every man who
examines the illustration which is printed
herewith that he is fortunate In coming to
HIS maturity now instead OF In the early
decades Of the last century. Those were
the days of the handles word you don't
hear very often in 1902, and when you do
hear il il usually seems out OF place.
If the literature of the period tells the
trut h and IL was the custom Of the day for
lovers To make their declarations kneeling
| and with perfervid oratory, that young
| man In the Twenties" must either be fancy
| free or else he l. not wearing his proposin 3
trousers. Imagine him ringing himself
madly To the carpet-as all the novellsts
| nay that he must nave donc-and pleading
| your great grandmother,
| Would that waist band hold firm and
| true under IN" awful STRAIN Could any
| pre-ser ever restore the shapeliness OF
| those trouser legs' And the straps at
| the bottom, would they resist the natural
| tendency TO go of with a snap and spoil
| your great -grandfather's well-prepared
poetic perorationy
"The Thrties.' unless some one has
Numbered, is David Copperheld in his
1 A l.,.,.
il were. Read his confessions again and
think Of the pain it cost him to pose fol
! that little sketch,
There are agonies within his silly mar
row boots and he Is suffocating at the waist
| and neckband, but II would have been the
| height Of improperly for him to say SO
| He wasn't privileged TO mention physica
| things.
| That staggering ambrosial, curly fell
| low. who stands for The FiftieS, ISM
| he Just about to take stroll around Cnior
| square, You used to hear him when yol
were a boy telling about Seward and Creole,
| and Thurlow Weed and lament ing the fac
| that the breed of 81 atesmen had died out.
But, NJ any rate. he Is man. and wha
shalt Wa say for his next neighbor on the
line bclow? Perhaps it might be wei
to concede as Portia did for one Of hel
wooers, that God made him, and, therefore
let him pass for man
The word dandy had disappeared by
his time and dude" had partly taken it'
place. Was il Oscar Wilde's ass heticisn
that prepared the way for the dudes skin
| tight trousers and his toothpick shoes
Maybe SO But The fried-egg hat and the
Seymour coat, who shall stand sponsor
for them?
The dude has disappeared from the high
way and even his name is dropping out o.
the language. Youngsters of to-day viii
| grow up and know It not.
The dude himself, and the King Of The
| Dudes. whom We used to hear much
J about. are plain, matter of-fact middle
| aged folks and are keeping house and goin6
home nights 10 their slippers and smoking
| jackets.
That young man next 10 the right enc
Of the lower line in the picture II the son o
one Of them and his father il immensely
disguised with him He will tell you tina
he IL wearing a military coat. and the stu
dent OF dress will explain that he is one %
the painful inheritances Of the war will
Spain.
Every war has it's influence on the dresl
Of the period. and the war Of 1898 was NJ
exception II was about that time tina
certain kind Of tailor catering to TIL
wants Of a certain kind Of youth. began Il
huild out the shoulders Of his coat ane