The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-03

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1t is characteristic OF the designers
of fashions for men that they should
busy themselves annually with the
i styles Of evening dress. It may be thai
they have some influence on the cut OF
! the clothes. With the shirt, however
they always fail. The shop windows o,
| the Fifth avenue haberdashers may
show wonderful shirts for evening wear
with a line of embroidery down each
side of the opening; or a design EN-.
broidered all over the bosom; or a
ruffle in very tiny form run down one
edge of the opening; or the material
employed in the bosom of the shirt
may be ornamented with polka dots
or designs in another shade of white.
These variations appear every year.
and we are assured that they are the
only proper things. Yet they never get
beyond the shop windows.
New York men are conventional
about their dress for the evening. They
find nothing SO well suited to formal
wear as a well fitting shirt of fine linen
with two studs and perfectly plain
cuffs The smartness in such dress
comes from the fit of the shirt and the
manner in which it is made, and in the
fine pearls that one may wear. The
studs for mems evening dress in New
York are practically only pearls. al
though other gems are sometimes
worn. In the perfect fit and material
of his evening shirt, in his well tied
white scarf and in this studs, the well
dressed New Yorker finds his greatest
enjoyment.
It is interesting, however. to see the
substitutes for this simple elegance
that the makers sometimes put on the
market. The new shirt shown in the
illustration has three buttons close to-
gether in the center of the bosom and
variation of the soft turned back cuff
which was popular first on negligee
shirts. Makers in the effort to please
customers who were always searching
for novelty applied these stiff turned
back cuffs to dress shirts last winter.
In order to Introduce a still newer
modification, they have cut away the
corner of the turnover, leaving only
half of the linen. If this style has
any advantage it is to be found In the
removal of good deal of unnecessary
material which when starched makes
the sleeves stuffy and awkward. OF
the three buttons in the middle of the
bosom it need only be said that a well
dressed New Yorker wearing any such
freak fashion would astonish his
friends.
The shirt for evening wear in this
set is seen with the waiscoat to display
how much of the shirtbosom should be
shown. 1t has two buttons, and in these
rest pearls of medium size The sleeves
for evening wear are rather longer
than when made for daily use, and
the square edged cuffs fall well over
the hand.
The changes in mems negligee shirts
have largely been of kind not visible
to any but the wearer The bosoms of
the pleated shirts-and the box pleated
shirt is still the most popular for
everyday wear-are rarely made of the
same material as the bodies and the
shirtmakers delight in devising fam
tastic contrasts and colors The most
popular material for the bosom of the
shirt is still linen. For the bodies
madras or fine crepe and silk are used
These are in Complementary colors to
the bosoms. Thus, pale green stripes
On white ground in one of the shop
windows We're finished with a crepe
in pale brown and stripes of white and |
blue had madras of solid blue for the |
body.
The popularity of soft bosomed |
shirts for everyday wear still keeps the |
stiff bosom in the second Mace. al
-hough they are more popular this |
winter than they have been for some |
time. They are not, as a rule. made
Up in the allover patterns selected for
the soft shirts. a colored stripe on
white ground, a crossbar or a small |
figure are usually the patterns which |
make up best for the stiff bosom shirts.
fhey have always the stiff single cuff.
Inc absurdity of the stiff turnover cuff
Is style is shown by the promptness
With which it wears out.
The soft turnover cuff is not nearly
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