The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-13
BEST DRESSED MAN OF
NEW YORK DESCRIBED

From the New York World.
y EST dressed man in New York?
1O Well there's Count" Vingut'
~ Arthur Kemp, Freddie" Geb-
hard, Woodbury. Kane. Louis Fitzgerald,
Jr., Harris Lindsey, Moncure Robinson,
Reggie" Vanderbilt-but just now he's
not in town-Eugene Van Schaick, Ro-
man Baldwin-there's a host of them.
But, ah! here comes Archie Pell-
beg pardon, Harrison Archibald Pell, de-
scendant of King Edward I. of England
and Lady Eleanor of CASTLE, member Of
the New York Stock Exchange, and at
present temporary resident of Lake
wood N. J., until the persistent Mr.. Je-
rome can pursue his gambling inquiry to
successful fruition.
1t is Mr.. Pell who has succeeded to
the laures of the late Lorillard Kip, no
doubt the best dressed man New York
ever saw, who made the study of his
clothes his life work. and invented the
coat which had a collar made of a sin
gle thickness of cloth, in order to have
it stick closer to the neck.
Where the average stock exchange
man has a suit for every day in the
week, Mr.. Pell has one for every day in
the month.
No two days. from 1 to 81, see him
CARRIED exactly the same. Though. per-
haps, he may wear the same suit twice
within the fortnight, his hat and shirt
and shoes and tie will not be the same
See him of a morning at 10 o'clock
fastening to the fve-hour labor on
Change.
There are the trim low-cut shoes, to
begin at the lowest rung of the sartorial
ladder, fiat lasted, DULY polished, as is
the mode; a nobby suit of sage-green
English tweed, pressed almost to a fault;
double-breasted coat, dun Holland waist
coat, soft-bosomed shirt of gay-hued
percale Elton collar, bow tie to harmon
lie with the linen, black derby hat and
tan gloves.
See him again next morning and you
will note a blue serge suit. patent leath-
ers, still fiat soled; a white waistcoat.
brown derby, soft blue roulard bow and
a paddock coat over the left arm.
Afternoon, and Archie" Pell is again
metamorphosed. Perhaps the cutaway is
again of tweed. or, perhaps, of the con-
ventional black. Next day it will be of
gray vicuna, with waistcoat and trout
sers of the same material
wedding on-Mr Pell has had two
of his own--or an afternoon tea. The
half hour in the cutaway In Rubber
neck Row at the Waldorf-Astoria is cut
short, and again Mr.. Pell appears In still
another garb-the frock coat of London.
You who want to dress in correct aft
ernoon mode. see archie" Pells tailor.
Mr.. Pell will tell his name; he shall be
nameless here The great-bosomed coat,
with full revers of dull black silk of such
exquisite basket weaves, the tightly but
toned-in waist, giving that so-much-to-
be-desired military figure. The full,
spreading skirts. the immaculate gray
suede gloves. the silk hat, with the
two-inch cloth band, ironed to the minute,
the slashed pocket on the left breast,
with Just a peep of snowy handkerchief
why, it's Archie Pelll
Perhaps the waistcoat is black, per-
the waist with three buttons on a side
coming down at the potion almost ike
a letter ~" The collar is now a stand
UP. with black ascot. or one of IRON
gray. newest mode from over sea- and
pinned carelessly with a great fresh
water pearl.
And at evening time? All! then there
shall be light! Perhaps 1t is only a din
ner jacket. 1t is faultiessly cut of soft
black material. with dull silk lapels. The
lower button is ready built to button.
Two pearl studs dot the broad. immacu-
late shirt BOSOM There IL an Elton
collar set with small bow tia tisd only
as Archie" Pell can he IL Smart pat
ent-ieather low sl1oes AuiA She costume
The ballroom7
Now it Is really rGre0R HsW There