Evening star., 1903-07-04
STYLES IN MEMS WEAR
PREVAILING CHARACTERISTICS
OF SUMMER DRESS.
Lounge and Outing Suits Attire for
the Yacht, the Links, the Country
Place and Business.
From the Haberdasher.

| From the Haberdasher.
Summer dress, which Is necessarily more
or less neglige, is not circumscribed by
those many little rules which quite prop
| erly surround attire designed for more for
| NAL wear and for cooler weather: there
| fore, one is not tied down I'm making selec-
! ton to any particular cut of jacket. or
| pattern in cloth. color I'm shirtings or
| cravatings So long good taste is shown
| in the combinations, and the contrasts are
| not too marked man may indulge in
| color freely, and he may have a great va
! riety of outfits, for summer calls us out of
| doors, and We must be garbed correctly for
| round of the links, sail in the yacht a
| day at the races. or for any of the many
| diversions that must be dressed up for il
| they are to be properly and comfortably
| enjoyed. / say comfortable, for assuredry
the man who feels that what he wears is
proper and suits the time, place and occa-
| sion is comfortable
Two-Piece Suits.
For all ordinary occasions, and by this
| I mean for business. town country wear.
| the two-piece suits made with either the
| low buttoning single or double breasted
Jackets will be in good form. In blue serge.
the double breasted jacket cut rather low
|
seams. will be very popular These jack
| cts will be worn with turn-up blue serge
| trousers or with the always acceptable fan
nels. OF course fannels should not be worn
| in town. 1t is best when in the city on
| business to wear the solid blue serge suit,
| or one of homespun, or the soft worsteCs.
! In the homspuns, grays are very good and
| in the soft, unfinished worsteds the gray
| plaids have come into great favor. These
fancy suitings are In any number of combi-
nations and colorings, they are plaid. over
check mixed in neat almost invisible
strfpings. They are invariably made up in
| sngle-breasted Jackets and the back Of
| these has single vent in the center of
| the back.
Shirts.
| For wear about town or country one may
| have a great number of shirts. i would
| recommend the fiannels for outing the
madras plain front shirts for very hot
| weather and pleated shirts for days when
| the jacket could be buttoned. When the
| pleated shirt is worn with the coat unbut-
| toned the effect is not good. These shirts
| muss up quickly and do not look well
after an hours wear the plain front
shirt. The shirts may be of light or dark
grounds and in any of the very many
striped patterns. So far collars go there
are but three styles. The wing will be worn
| as long as the weather is cool When ii be-
comes warm then the medium height fold
collar worn either with tie four-in-
hand is proper. great many young men
will wear the old-Style turn-down collar
in warm weather. This is the collar with
rather wide band, deep rounded points
and very little front opening at the band.
Waistcoats of washable fabrics have lost
none of their popularity, but do not think
that the many fancy weaves and colored
affairs will be as correct as the plain SINGLE
breasted white duck affairs. These may be
worn with any of the summer suits and
they will go particularly well with pleated
shirts. The hideous tan waistcoats have
gone out Of style and are only to be found
in the cheaper shops. The slate tones and
the black and white mixtures well
the spotted materials cannot be said to
be questionable, but they a little out
of place in scheme of dress which pos
sesses altogether enough tints and colors
without them If man desires to wear
colored shirts, plaid suitings and colored
| cravatngs he should be careful to wear
| either a waistcoat of the same material as
the coat or of plain white duck.
For the Country Only.
Norfolks are for the country only. They
are best in roughish cloths such as home
spuns tweeds. The suits are generally
Of one material. For golf or any of the
ordinary country diversions the homespun
tweed or flannel trousers will be worn with
cheviot, madras flannel neglige shirts,
! low turn down collars, narrow four-in-
hands and plain saddler stitched black or
russet BELTS The half hose may be OF Isle
of fancy pattern and the shoes low-cut
calls or russets. With these suits a fancy
handkerchief of linen or pineapple silk or
| foulard is carried.
Yachting clothes seldom change The best
outfit for a day aboard of yacht where
you are not expected to do any work con-
sists Of the double breasted blue coat, white
flannel or duck trousers, with chamois low
cut shoes, white neglige shirt, wing on
turn-down, highland collar and black
tie or four-in-hand. The hat may be a
Panama or the regulation yachting cap.
may go aboard in white duck trousers.
white canvas shoes. white negige shirt
with low collar and black tie and a white
canvas hat such the sailors wear.
Turned-Up Trousers.
Attempts have been made to retire the
turn-up trousers, but they seem to have
been abortive. 1 think that so long as men
wear two-piece suits. and go without sus-
penders, the turn up on the bottom of the
| trousers will be necessity. This turn up
keeps the trousers from touching tie
ground and give the wearer feeling Of
confidence. the lack of which would be- to
say the very least, decidedly uncomfort-
able.
The new ties should not be tied as tightly
as those of last season. They are broad
and have square ends and If tied so that
the center wrinkles but does not crush up
the effect is very good. When worn with
the low collar they almost hide II in front
and the effect is not unlike that In vogue
many years ago Inc Small ana narrow
ties well as four-in-hands will not be
fashionable. Ascots of foulard will be worn
with wing collars and white waistcoats
are worn. There is nothing better or more
becoming to the average man than these
great broad cravats IL they properly
tied. The fact that they have never been
popular in low priced goods ought to make
them more popular than they are with men
who seek the odd rather than the ordinary
in dress.
Distinction In Dress.
We have learned to appreciate clothes
that become us. and it is for this reason
that radical ventures in sartorial fields are
over prominent. When a adopts
clothing. hats, shoes or haberdashery which
becomes him, and to which he has become
accustomed, he displays very poor taste IL
he drops them to take up some fieeting