The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-09
REFORM IN
MEMS ATTIRE
What the World May
Come to Very
Soon.

! NJ Y. Tribune James, I think
| will wear my magenta trousers this
evening.
eyes, sir. With the lace border7'
''No The plain style, with two rel
stripes. It's going to be a very quiet
affair, and I don't want to look too
conspicuous. Give me that faring tailed
| coat in sulphur and cream. -
i" 'Ow about the waistcoat, sirs''
.'Let me have something modest in
violet and with vermilien dots. The
four inch pearl buttons with rhine
stones are tasteful, don It you thinkf'
"Hall the rage, sir. They suits your
complexion, sir
80 I think, James. All, it is rather
difficult to navigate with these high
heels, curled tip shoes, especially when
man is wearing corsets. We New
Workers will soon be like the Chinese
women, unable to walk without assist
ance.
81 'ope not, sir. business gentle
man 'as TOT
cha, ha, hal | saw such ridiculous
sight on Broadway this morning, James.
An innocent old auntie from the back
woods, dressed in a blue skirt and a
gay feather hat, such costume as
women used to wear. When she saw
her gaudy appearance in shop win
dow in contrast with the sober browns
and blacks of up-to-da women, she
almost had fit. The recollection makes
me hysterical. Pass over the smelling
salts, my boy"
''WiH you carry a chatelaine tonight,
sir9''
eyes. I need it for cigars, since these
clothes have no pockets. James, James,
we have made terrible mistake, and
fear it's too late to do anythingi'
- You make my cart stop, sir. What
is its''
"These magenta trousers look green
under the electric light It's an impos-
sible shade Oh, why didn' we think
of it beforef I haven It time to unlace
and put on another pair. Cut the
strings, James. Give me the smelling
salts. 'm almost crazy!'
This dialogue floating through the
window of Fifth avenue bachelor es-
Establishment was heard the other day
by an imaginative person who had been
reading of the change in mems evening
attire decreed by London tailors. The
high class breaches artists of the West
End, it was cabled, had sent out SAM
Piles of famboyant creations rlvalling
the dreams of Partisan men milliners.
A revolutionary blue coat, poem and
a melodrama in cloth, with velvet col
lar and silk facings, will be worn the
coming season by all perfect gentlemen,
III
breeches will be optional A hasty
cable requesting more light on this
dubious statement brought the reply
that the English language was to
blame; optional refers to either rather
than none Taking it in this sense, the
trousers or knee breeches will be for
the present of black cloth, the longer
garments having two rows of braid on
the side seam. Gilt buttons win be at
tached wherever they will be most
ornamental and useless There is an
alleged similarity to the costume Of
footmen and that recently prescribed
for gentlemen of the Kings household.
THE TAILOR'S DREAM
. "'The hour has struck said New
York tailor exultantly, scanning the
dispatch. 90 TITS the knell of CONNER
cld1lSm ana ugllneSS IN MAZE dtI1re. AL
last we artists of the cloth have begun
an international movement that gives
scope to our aspirations and viii not
stop until man is arrayed like the pea |
cock. All, the wasted years of black |
clothes built on the model of coffin. |
Alas. for the epoch of readymaIes and |
handme-downs! 1t is a glorious renais-
sance that dawns for the profession and
its victims-I mean, its patrons. What |
was the pre-Raphaelite movement in |
art? Nothing compared with our heroic |
attempt to get away from the funereal, !
sordid monotony of the age and bark |
back to the period of slashed GALLONS, |
red cloaks, curled shoes and feather
hats. I see in the near future a Broad |
way crowd looking like the chorus of a
comic opera, the downtown business |
quarter resembling masquerade party, |
old gentlemen with white whiskers trip :
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