The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22
CLOTHES FOR THE SPORTSMAN
NEW IDEAS IN OUTDOOR WEAR
FOR ATHLETIC MEN.

Tho Norfolk Jacket in Many styles ID
Again Popular Tho Double Breasted
I Coat Now Seldom Worn Except on
Yachting Trips Fashions in FlanneIs.
: This is the season Of the year when The
business man goes to the country and sees
how vel the youths a decade or more
younger than he look in their athletic toys.
He admires the look Of comfort and goes
back to town determined to supply himself
with clothes such as those he has seen in
the country. .
So he lays In a stock OF fannels, white
ducks, stocks and neglige shirts. When
he goes a gain to the country he is surprised
to find that he doesn't loo in the least like
the young men lounging about the tennis
court.
1t is then that he slowly begins to ap-
preciate the difference. All the clothes
offered for sale could never produce the
effect that comes only from hard muscles,
plentiful exercise and the athletic life, but
at least he has the satisfa ction of knowing
that he is well and appropriately dressed.
Fashion has this summer made appro-
pirate for men Of almost any age one very
useful garment. This is the blouse. or
Norfolk jacket, which had been entirely
out Of favor until 1t was introduced tenta-
lively last summer. There are few sports
for which it is not suited. and its special
object Is sometimes allowed to affect the
way in which it is made. A blouse intended
for shooting, for instance, will be supplied
with pockets for cartridges. Sometimes the
blouse is a mere sack suit with long pleats.
Other fashions show a yoke on the back
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only to the belt and the tailor can give his
ina gination free play as to the cuffs, pockets,
which are always provided with a flap,
and the collar.
One Of the useful and at the same time
smart models of a Norfolk blouse Is a
compromise between the extremes in this
kind of a coat, 1t has three seams in the
back, with the central one vented. There
are deep Jokes in the back and front, and
the pleats, of which there are two in the
back and front. extend only from the yoke
to the belt.
The belt is two inches wide and the sleeves
are finished with a turned back cuff two
and a half inches deep. The seams are
strapped and the rather large bone buttons
show down the front. A small button is
attached to the turnover cuff.
The trousers are of course turned up.
Some men always have a pair Of knicker-
bockers with a blouse suit and they are just
now beginning to outgrow the disfavor
into which they feh several years ago.
As the blouse suit Is primarily ono for
hard use 1t should be made up in a material
that wears well and does not show dirt too
readily. Scotch tweeds are better for the
purpose than anything else, and they look
especially we'll made up this way In shades
of tan, brown and gray. The shaggy cloth
looks best when there is an underlined check
or stripe in the goods.
II there Is onp form OF summer sport to
which the blouse does not adapt itself it
lie yachting. For golf, bicycling. motoring
or country wear it has many advantages,
but on the water 1t looks strangely out Of
place. Very few men invited to cruise on a
yacht ever take the trouble to provide
themselves with special clothes. They take
along whatever summer toys they have,
but are happy II these include a double
breasted blue coat.
The yacht IL the one place on which the
double breasted, dark blue serge is as much
liked as ever. The man who possesses that
and a pair of white duck trousers, with some
white rubber soled shoes, may be satisfied
yacht that was ever built.
The owner Of. the yacht will OF course
want to supply himself with Q special suit