Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-26
Artistic Designers of TaiIors' Assocla-
ton Deck Model in the Coming
Seasons Styles and Turn Him
Loose in chicaso-New Rags Great


New Rags Will be Summers.
And well might they talk, for the
new man will be sumner He will
be a surprise in the Alps, summer
rainbow, an aurora borealis, an cleo
trical show. whole Filipino village
on fire. When arrayed in his new
spring and summer toys he will flame
and flare scintillate and radiate. for
the gavel has fallen. 1t is declared,
the dictum has gone forth. A ban has
fallen on the smartly dressed man
OF 1906. He is ages behind the times.
Nevermore can he walk with his gaily
decked apparation cavorting down the
great hotel aisles, accompanied by the
self satisfied committee on male raj.
ment for the coming year.
Hard on the Tailors.
A big, broad shouldered board IF
trade man. hands in pockets, stood
speeches. with establishment until ths
apparition had passed. Then he turn
ed to friend near by:
Say, jim" announced he of the
board of trade, with stern look brood
ing in his eyes. "If my tailor ever
does that to me, mark my words, III
kill him"
"Peg Tops" Are No More.
The "peg-top" trousers must 60 In.
stead of resembling dirigible bal
loon in the seat and shoulder of
mutton below the knee, as heretofore,
trousers this season will be cut of
moderate width all the way down.
There will be no "cuffs" on trousers
that is, they will not be turned up
at the bottom-excepting for outing
purposes.
Mems sack coats will no longer
wave in the breeze like a wind tapped
sail, nor will they be as long as q
horse blanket. Instead, they will he
cut to a length almost approaching
the "dinky' limit.
The shoulders will be squarer
There will be waist, rather than
a bag, effect.
Coats Are the Limit.
Three buttons will be the limit.
Some will have only two
There will be no more wide effects
in the back, but some sack coats Will
be cut with a dip to the front.
Lapels will be extra wide AMI
long.
And the colors? Coruscant plaids
and rowdy worsteds will predominant 4.
The noisier they are, the better. In
fact, if they are not noisy you might
as well take them home and give them
to Johnny, the charwoman's son-that
is, If you care for style.
The three-button, double-breasted
sack, made of wide striped herring
bone, with extra long lapels, reach
ing even below the parallel of human
latitude marked by the diaphragm,
will be much affected by stylish dress.
ers. This coat, which will have no
outside breast pocket, will also be
worn in gray, blue and brown.
The very peacock cutaway frock
built of English worsted of turbulent
revolutionary pattern. will be worn By
such business men as have the price
and the nerve.
All coats will be cut reasonably full
in front. "Only Englishmen like a
tight 'front.' said Mr.. Peterson
Strange, too Those Britishers are 40
SliCSly. 1ONSlllOl SWSlIStllldll vi id
maica, for example.
And vests! Oh, those vests! Get
out your blue goggles! Get piece
Of smoked glass Put up your UNI
brella!
The waistcoats designed for this
season are simply law-breaking In
their intensity. Ten to one there will
be a riot on State street Easter Sun
day
There Is one pattern in particular
a double-breasted, nerve-racking affair
with no collar, lapels as wide as q
young elephants ears an dchacks
half as big as an oughtahava bis
cult.
An Aid to the Fat Men.
Then there is another--the Fat
Mans friend The stripes, which run
up and down, slope from the shoulder
to the waist line at such an angle that
they give a chest effect that is very
much Jim Jeffries, while the abdominal
preponderance is almost lost sight
Of
And there are others--oh, many
others If you want an idea of what
they look like, get kaleidoscope and
send it whirling round, or run past
show window full of picture post
cards.
One of the newest things is a silk
vest to be worn with a dinner coat
Very thin black stripes extend hor
izontally over a glistening white black
ground 1t has black braided pockets
and other frills and three giddy but
tons. Fortunately it will be worn
only in the evening. Otherwise there
would be an extra job tor the fire de
partment.
All Are United