The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-28

and pointed. The collar is narrow
There are many varieties of the
white waistcoat however, and the sin
gle breasted are perhaps the most pop
ular just at the moment Some are
made with only two buttons and cut
with point. One style shows no but
tons at all, the fastenings being hidden
under a lapel
Shirts are sometimes made in pique
to match the material of the waistcoat
The most careful dressers always see
that they have the same whites That
is to say, they have either blue or
cream tint predominating in shirt
bosom, waistcoat and tie. It is neces-
sary to secure the cooperation of ones
laundress, however, to accomplish this
artistic result.
Buttons for the waistcoat usually
match the studs. Thus for pearl studs,
which are always the smartest that
can be worn, there should be mother Of
pearl buttons made in the form of
regular white china buttons for use
In the holes on the button there are
often little cords of gold or silver.
Even small diamonds are admissible.
For men who do not wear pearl
studs, the mother of pearl buttons
with the little diamonds or the cords
of gold or silver are good style. The
cuff buttons must, of course, match
them. The same sets of buttons are
used with turquoise, sapphires, rubies
and emeralds, but this phase of mems
jewelry is too extensive to be dealt
with casually.
The trousers for the dress suit are
cut moderately broad, fit more closely
around the ankle, and are finished
with braid on the outside seam. There
are many varieties of this braid, rang
ing from a simple band to very COM
pl1cated effects interlaced and crossed.
The more elaborate braids are smart
er now for the dress suit trousers as
we'll as for the dinner suit. Trousers
for dress wear should never have a de-
clded crease down the front. The
style of ironing a rigid crease down the
front of the trousers has disappeared
for all kinds of trousers wcrn by we'll
dressed men. 1t never belonged to a
dress suit.
There is only one style of footgear
proper for evening dress, although
other kinds are worn. This is a pump
made in patent leather, which is most
modish when it is worn with black silk
socks
Men wear what are commonly called
low quarter shoes in patent leather,
and buttoned shoes of the same kind.
They also wear pumps with other kinds
of silk socks than black. But that does
not prevent the very best style from
using black silk socks and patent
leather pumps.
For wear at the opera and theatre
these shoes are made with heavy soles.
For dancers the soles are of paper
weight. The style of the shoe is the
same in both cases.
White glace gloves, with black sticth-
ing on the back done in three heavy
lines, have again been worn this win
ter after more than decade of dis
use. Thin white stitching is more
dressy, and for outside wear the heavy
white gloves, thick and durable as dog
skin, are still the more general style.
There is every Indication, however,
that the black stitching will soon be
thought the smartest thing to wear.
White neckties are made of striped
or corded linen, cut of medium width
and only slightly broader at the ends.
The butterfly wings are, of course, as
extinct as the dodo, and ties are rather |
broader than they have been for sew
eral years past.
When neither poke nor a lapfront !
collar is worn the tie may be kept in
place by a white pin stuck immediate
ly through the centre of the tie and |
the lap of the collar. The various gold |
and other pins made for this purpose |
should be avoided by all who want to |
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to have the ties worn with evening |
dress made in the least stiff with
starch.
As to handkerchiefs, the well dress
ed man shou.u cling to pure white |
linen. They may be had in any de-
gree of fineness. But the cheapest is
just as correct in style as the most
Mems dress handkerchiefs
in the sheer muslin, with embroidery
and ornamentation, may cost as much
as $40.
The headgear of evening dress is the
silk hat of ordinary daytime wear.
to every rule of correct
dressing, the opera hat is the better
style. That is true of every country
out the United States.
In New York the best dressed men,
or reasons of their own, prefer to wear
Xix hats in the evening Thus it hap
,ens that one sees them III the cor
idors of the Metropolitan Opera House
nd at Sherrys when there is a large
all going on.
Need it be added to these remarks
n evening dress that a black tie
hould never be worn with evening
ress except when a man is in mourn
lg? Then he wears with it a black
'aistcoat and mourning studs. Pearls
re commonly regarded as mourning, S
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