Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-07
RETURN OF THE DANDY.
Are Men as Well as Women Reviving
the Fashions of the '3O'sP
From the London Mail.

From the London Mail.
Men, as a result of the influence of their
tailors and Wallets, either consciously or I'M
consciously DESTROYS of posturing in the pic
ture presented by their women folk are
now adopting number of the early Vic
torian fashions which at this time are the
modes accepted as perfection by femininity
While the ladies preparing to look
quaint and charming in round skirts, pele
rine bodies and demure bonnets, and are
cultivating as best they may the bottle
neck shoulder that was deemed the height
of elegance seventy years ago, the handles
of today gradually but surely adapting
their appearance to semblance of the
same period.
Averse as they are from startling changes
men make their concessions to style first of
all in small but effective items. One of the
most noticeable will be observed as an ac-
compartment of the dress suit. The newest
watch guard for evening wear watch
guard is an older term than watch chain)
is SO quaint that it carries those who be-
hold 1t back in Imagination to the early
days of Count dOrsay and Lord Disraeli.
1t is a narrow band of black MORE silk
ornamented at the ends with delicately
fashioned diamond buckles. The band is
worn quite taut across the waistcoat. and
is about the length of the leather watch
guard now popular among sportsmen-a
trifie that looks inconspicuous, that is per-
fectly practical and that costs about half
a guinea. The price of the black MORE
band with it's diamond fittings depends
upon the value of the stones
Another Renaissance of the DAYS of tho
handles is the tendency among men at this
present time to permit their hair to grow
a shade longer than has been fashiona BILE
for some years past. 1t is also burnished
to such splendid brilliancy that the use of
macassar oil might be suspected, though
the effect is really gained by strenuous
welding of the brush, completed by the
passing or silk handkerchief over the
ambrosial locks
Women who observe the trend of the
times are fully, and not altogether without
delight expecting to see their men foll,
shyly cultivate crop of curls above their
marble broWS, and modest clusters of them
behind their ears, after the Byronic man.
ner.
They note also with satisfaction the as
siduity with which the tailors are cultiyat-
ing in their clients a neat and lissom
waist. following the military tendency ac-
complished in many cases by the wearing
of stays Stay-makers for men do not
f1aunt their wares a rule in their shop
windows. put all the same demand for
corsets for men. cleverly boned and made
of the most delicate pompadour brocade.
or of silk to match the underwear are in
huge demand.
His dancing pumps are exercising the
youthful mans mind al this moment and
instead of being satisfied with the old reg
ulation patent leather court shoe which
has been the accepted masculine pattern
for many seasons past, he is bending a
favored eye upon brogued evening shoes
and silk stockings powdered with deliberately
embroidered fleur de lys and sprigs of bios
som. But the only embroideries he will
countenance are executed in silks the Same
color his hose, for, like the woman of
particular to the exquisite refinement Of
the taste he reflects.