The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-20
REFLECTION ON CLOTHES.

l The Impossibility of Looking Like the Advertisements-As to Clothes.
 Tt is quite possible that I delude myself about whole lot of things" l observed the unpretentious man. But there is one point upon which make no mistake whatever.
 I T never try to bamboozle myself into the belief that I'll ever, in this world or any other, present anything like the surprisingly perfect appearance in new suit of clothes that the young fel- lows in the clothing and tailoring ad- vertisements present.
 You must have noticed how those fine strapping young fellows in the ready-made clothing and the tailoring advertisements look? Leave aside their togs, and in the matter of physique alone they've got the Dana Gibson and the Chandler Christy men backed right off the boards, so to speak; vast shoul- ders, sos you'd think they'd never be able to pass through any ordinary door, way legs of ilerculean development yet shapely and ornamental; heads set on their shoulders as if by the hands of a Phidias; fine, aristocratic, perfect ly chiselled slightly bored counte- nances; and general graceful languor about em-I certainly do wonder, al ways, where those fine fellows live and have their being
 But the extraordinary thing about them is the way their clothes fit them! Everything snug. and yet with a cer- tain negligee 1ooseness, all the seams in just the right place, the creases pressed tight, every check of pin stripe in the goods showing, even the wr1n- kles adding a certain careless grace to the general effect-my, but it is a fas- cinating thing to look at those pie | lures!
 And then again those fellows in the ready-made clothing and tailoring ad- vertisements know how to strike such picturesque yet perfectly easy and nat ural pastures! You take the ordinary man and let hlm sit on tabouret, for 1 instance, with his legs crossed and there won't be a thing graceful or en- gazing about him. But those fellows in the advertisements can sit on any old thing-on barb wire fence, truly Ibelieve-and look just as neat and tidy and graceful, with their little swish canes resting at ease, as any young Narcissus examining his reflection in. a pool of water.
 I've got collection of those pie lures been keeping them for long time now, and every time feel dis contented with the way my own clothes Hook I just yank out bunch of those pictures and gaze at them and then feel better. I know that the pictures present an idealized version of some- thing I am never meant to realize in my own person, and am content then to go my own humble way looking as baggy and bunchy and clumsy as know I must have been intended to look from the beginning.
 And while I'm on this topic I won- der what genius of tailor man 1t was who, twenty years or so ago, first sprang that idea that to be in good form men had to have their trousers creased. It certainly seems to me that this remarkable crafty and clever bene- factor of tailors and folks engaged in side-lines of the tailoring trade ought to be looked upon with such reverence by men in his business that they'd erect q large marble statute or shaft to perpetuate his memory.
 Nowadays a man simply must have his suits, and particularly his trousers, pressed at frequent intervals if he is to reamin within the pale of polite so- ciety. And yet, while am not very old, can easily remember when a man would never have a suit of clothes pressed at all, but just wear it out, with never an iron to touch it from the time 1t left the tailors hands-and then the tailor only pressed 1t to take the wrinkles and natural creases out of it.
 T can remember the first readymade suit of clothes I ever bought as a self supporting boy There were creases in. the trousers, because the trousers had