Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15

| dinner by morrow's bridegroom will do
| more to boom business at the breeches
| makers than dozen straight and formal
functions.
| A coon fur motoring coat, IL kept In cold
| storage during the summer, should last
| three years On the other hand, devotee
| of motoring will wear out half dozen Dust
| coats in a single summer, and whip
! like Alfred Vanderbilt is equally hard on
| his coaching clothes The automobiling
| coat is a peculiar silky linen fabric. lined
! with silk. The sleeves are double, with an
| inner bishop sleeve of rubber to keep out
| the dust, and a regulation sleeve or the
| linen on top. The coaching coats are ntted
| as carefully as a woman's bodice and come
! in exquisite cloths.
! A man may leave the selection of his
| waistcoats and shirts to the haberdasher
! in whom he has absolute faith but upon
one thing he will insist-the pattern must
| be exclusive. For this privilege he Will
pay as high as $35 for a single colored
shirt which pleases his fancy. Exclusive
! wafstcoat patterns, even in wash materials,
! come as high as $35 or $40. The man VINO
| prides himself on being properly dressed
never appears without waistcoat, and the
| bosom of his shirt is invariably starcned-
Shirts at sos Dozen.
! In the matter Of white linen shirts he
follows the prevailing styles, which change
J about once year. These shirts are MADE
| to order at prices ranging from $50 to
SlOc per uOLSl, dliu AS puy al NSAs@S1
| six dozen at a time.
He holds it as positive grievance
against his haberdashers that his collars
cannot be made to order, and he must
! content himself by paying mere tribe
| of $40 dozen, in assorted styles, buying
/ from six to twelve dozen at time. Some
| men wear the same style collars always;
i others experiment on neckwear, to the sad
| depletion of their purse. Only f2ddists
| order shirts with collars attached. Richard
Garfield, who is not only the prince or
gamblers and cOnnoiSSeur In art, out
faddist in dress also, wears attached col
| lars, and when he makes trip to London
he takes with him from six to eight trunks
| filled with linen. so that he Will not De
obliged to submit his property to the I'M
| certainties of Londons abominable laun-
dries.
| Men of wealth who travel constantly Or
| der collars in twenty-four dozen lots, and
| have them Numbered in different cities and
! returned to their clubs.
Three dollars is the minimum price paid
| for a cravat by the twentieth century Beau
Brummel, and he is far more apt TO spend
| the maximum price of So for it. This is
because the smartest ties come at this
price in the English square, and he wants
| 1t all folded under.
But even at this fancy prise for cravats
! his bill for neckwear will not soar so high
| as that for hosiery. Here the average sar-
| torial spendthrift allows his fancy to run
| riot not in color combinations, but in weave
I y
| for socks whose fine weave will last only a
| comparatively short time. He will pay
| from SD to S14 for silk socks, with a tiny
| flower or clock embroidered upon them. The
weil-dreSsed man ScornS moI0gramS on his
| hosiery, as elsewhere He leaves such con-
| spicuous tricks to his imitator en- the race
/ track.
One well-known Chicago man buys roth
! ing except navy blue socks in the finest of
| silken texture, paying for them $50 per
dozen; and a certain New Yorker confines
! his purchases to a black silk bose, en-
| broidered with tiny flowers III natural col
| ors for which he pays S1C0 per dozen.
| Socks done in butterflies in natural color
| ing command $50 iair and are just now
| being sold to the SmarteSt of dresScrs, not
| in pairs, but in dozens.
| Handkerchiefs a Big Item at S25 Each
Handkerchief are another big item OF
| expense in the sartorial equipment. Here
| fineness of work and Sheerness of fabric
add to the price. Seventy-five dollars a
dozen is considered reasonable price for
a handkerchief as sheer and fine as chiffon,
with hemstitching SO delicate that it can
hardly be detected by the naked eye. The
hemming is done with the aid of micro
scopes by old peasants in France. 1t can
neither be duplicated in this country nor
nv the Younger generation of needle-work-