The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-06

open up stf1l another widely varied class of fashionable fabrics from which the well dressed man can select the materials for his neelizee shirts- Too mum erous to count and too many to describe are the styles of stripes They vary from single hatrlines crossing the surface at regular intervals to cluster stripes of various widths and many kinds, although the tendency Is decidedly toward narrow stripes The color effects are quite as d. versifed- White grounds have fancy stripes in black, or a color. or combi- nations of co3ors, and colored grounds are crossed by white or black stripes or multi colored stripes Brighter color effects are to the fore among the new striped madras. Combinations of as many as six colors are noticeable in the stripes that cross white or colored grounds-regular rainbow stripes they are-but the effect is not at all garish or crude: the thing is done so well that the results are in very good taste A touch of red or green livens up many of the stripes of black or white or even the stripes are in other colors. Grounds in color are crossed by black and white stripes, and black and white are frequently intermingled with colors in the vari-hued stripes on white or colored grounds.
 
 striped madras shirtings; some striking new effects are in green, soft reseda shade; the pongee tones are numerously represented and there are the customary layenders and pinks. Smart shirtings in gray, tan and the darker cloths will be made up for summer travelling.
 With the approach of the season of low shoes hosiery becomes a matter of import ance. Among the French lisle hose being shown for the new season the clock ef- fects on black are in especially good style. There Is plenty of latitude for choice among these. for they range from the simple, severe clock embroidered in white or color to the broader and more elaborate tree" clock and designs which show a still more fanciful variation of the familiar ornament which Is a time | honored decoration for hosiery. The clock may be embroidered in white or color; sometimes the two are combined. for in- stance, a green and white, gold and | white or lavender and white clock on | black hose
 l Embroidery Is again visible on the new French lisle hosiery, but 1t is very neat and tasteful, usually taking the form of small figures forming stripes up the front | of the hose. The embroidery is in white | or color.
 
 French mixtures-black and very dark blue, black and dark red, black and gray, and so on, woven together so that a | mixed mottled or shot effect is produced. l Stripe effects appear among this new l type of French lisle hose and another style has diamond shapes embroidered on the mixed ground; for instance, black and very dark blue mottled ground has black diamonds alternated with diamonds embroidered in shaded blue.
 Open-work effects are again seen in the new French lisle hosiery although there are men highly regarded for their admir- able example in matters of dress, who look on the cobweb stockings borrowed from, and certainly much better suited to the feminine sex, as the acme Of bad style and perverted taste.
 The well-dressed man wears little jew
 elry but that little is selected with careful
 regard for individuality of effect Orig inality of design is now much sought for in all kinds of jewelry, whether rings
 cuff-links or ornaments for the fob. In rings the newest thing Is the hana carved crclet. The designs are very unt@ua1 and strikingly beautiful, the dominant Idea
 being to make each ring as much an in- dividual work of art as is each piece of statuary by the sculptor. The beautiful
 shadings now given to gold make pos sible of achievement many effects of an
 oddly artistic character, especially the
 antique gold with its dull green finish like
 the patina of an ancient bronze or an old
 Roman coin. Wrought out in this dul greenish gold is a battle royal between crouching tger-just in the act oi springing-on one side and a serpent
 that misses defiance from the other; 6
 superb emerald is poised between. An. other ring which has all the appearance
 of being blackened by the ages, is form
 ed of the coiling. writhing body of ser
 pent, the head resting on top. Men have
 been wearing snake rings for many {
 day, but heretofore about the only at | tempt to follow nature has been in tn,
 coiling body to give form to the circlet The serpents In the new hand-carvec rings writhe like those in the sculptureC
 Laocoon and the interpretation of the
 scaly surface of the sinuous bodies i' wonderfully realistic. Egyptian designs are much favored among the hand-carvec rings. A circlet, which looks as if res ! cued from oblivion by the time-vanishinf
 archaeologist, is wrought with the heac of the Sphinx; a single. large ruby glow' beneath the carved face which seems tC have caught the reflection of the impass
 i've, impenetra ble mystery of the gigan
 tic stature crumbling in the Valley O.
 the Nile. The crclet on either side oi
 the jewel is carved with the lotus, sig
 nificant of immortality. an aptly choser
 emblem for a ring, which, itself, Is symbol of eternity.
 ! The other new ideas that attract at tention at the jewellers is the use of foul
 different kinds of gems or four differen varieties of the same gem, harmonizinl in color, in the mounting of gentlemen'I cuff links. An example of this new fash ion in links is four ellipses of plain, pol ished gold-two for each cuff-set witt ssapphires in four different shades, sin
 gle gem being imbedded in the center O.
 each elliptical piece of furnished gold, For the man who struggles with hi!
 dress tie comes a special device, said tt
 keep 1t firmly in place. It consists of two | small gold hooks, set each with single
 small pearl, one for each side of the tie The hook clamps the collar, the only par that is visible when it Is in place being
 the pearl which slides over the neckti
 and which prevents it from slipping ou of place. man may be as handsome d. Apollo but he looks anything but roman
 tic with his tie riding up over his collar
 hence the new device appeals to mascu , line attention.
 The masculine fob, made entirely o , gold, both chain and pendant, is exploit ing itself in new designs. Here, too, tn
 Egyptian seems to have hold. An artis ideally designed fob consists of four loos chains of Egyptian green gold, linked together by an upper and lower bar These are ornamented by the much ia l l,.Y