The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
BLAZERS AGAIN In STYLE
POPULAR ONCE MORE AFTER A
SCORE or YEARS.

Company Devices TO Make ~aistcOats
Expensive Motor Goats or Pon@ee.
In the window OF a shop downtown are
| displayed some wonderful articles Of mems
attire. There is scarcely IN extravaganza
in dress that Is not represented there1 In
cut az well as in color the limit Of the bizarre
seems to nave been attained.
On a placard in the window is thc legend
~Uncalled for Garments" Yesterday a man
who had beer Starring curiously at the col
lection turned away from the window.
mot only uncalled for he was nearu 70
murmur. but entirely Unnecessary
Perhaps the harmless blazer Is to be
grouped under the same head. After a
score Of years it has again returned to
popularity n the smarter shops are inn
porting from London in large numbers
these gayly striped coats.
For nearly q decade the blazer was tbs
smartest garment for sporting wear and
men struggled to find the most striking
combinations of color TO weas with white
trousers. Then the reaction came and
the blazer disappeared forever. as the
| world thought then
1t is back again row ndi the first summer
Of its return has shown such signs OF strength
that IL will doubtless return to great popu-
larity. Blazers have always held a place
among the clothes of college crews ara
teams, and in England they never quite
went out Of use even for general wear.
In general the stripes come in more sub
dued tones than formerly. There are, Of
course. red and black. yellow and black
aid ever red and yellow. There are stripes
in two shades of blue. in magenta and
maroon and in darx brown and yellow.
These are as q rule ready made and ft
but approximately-which is as good a
fit as Ia :scde3 for athletic use. The
blazers look beet with white flannel rather
than white duck trousers.
Most OF the imported blazers shown in
the shops are the colors OF differens clubs
or colleges. All the colleges Of CXforc
and Cambridge nave their %colors. and so
nave innumerable athletic clubs in England.
The Meadow Brook and otter hun clubs
here have also their colors ind have ma
terial for the hat bands of their members
made up especially for them. They used
also TO import the flannel for blazers, and
will doubtless begin again now hat these
coats are again In style.
Much less uncalled for, even though
some of them are seen on the more i'm
portant tennis courts. are the so-called
LttiHlS TObtb WHICH, n TlIlu dNtHNlc udDeT-
dasher has put on the market this year.
IL is difficult TO detect any other utility
about them than the desire to make his
Customers spend money.
The tennis robe differs in few particulars
from a bath robc and is made in very light
weight flannel Usually the color is white.
although any light shade 10 used. The edges
are finished with braid, and the pockets,
which are on each side of the gown and
also on the chest. are finished with large
mother c; pearl buttons Of tEo same size
as those on the front of the gown. There is
a thick white cord about the waist.
The purpose Of this coat is the same a.
that of the blazer. IL is meant to put on
after one has finished a game Of tennis
and is still warm from the exercise. There
were three OF these gowns at the club last
week at Lenox, and hanging over the back
of a bench they supplied an attractive bit
OF colo to the scene on the courts.
1t is to please patrons who want to spend
more money that the haberdashers some
times paint the sartorial lily. IL is easy
10 Deserve this tendency in the fancy waist
coats that a Fifth avenue dealer makes
for his patrons. They rarely cost less than
$40 and are made OF thin striped linens or
madras.
On one waistcoat pocket there is a mono
gram which has its part in increasing the
price. As IL the fancy material, the button
and the monogram were not enough, there
is an Inside dickey OF white duck. or
course the heavy white duck does not
fit well on the lighter linen and the inserted
line of white looks as if the manufacturer
waistcoat.
He may succeed in justifying the price
he asks for the garment, but he also prevents
his customer from looking as we'll dressed
as he should in view OF the amount he pays
for it.
AS,ther detail Of dress no longer called
for event under certain circumstance
is the soft collar Of flannel or some cotton
stun such as duck or linen. On ~shipboard,
where they are worn a great deal, or in Dther
travelling or in riding, there is still sc.ne JUS
LITIGATION for these soft collars. 20 see one
in New York cannot fail t. surprise the man
who knows what good dressing il. There
IL still apparently some sale for them in the
shops.
= WY do we keep them?" repeated the
salesman in the Fifth avenue store. We'll.
For the same reason that we keep green silk
scarfs with green Patterns and yellow
shirts with blue polka dots. You never
can tell h some men will ask for
There are some other summer, novelties
that are just as useless as those tina have
been named and are not even saved in the
ewes OF some persons by the fact that thew
are costly. One Of these il a wonderful
arrangement by which the belt is held up
with a dark tin clasp painted the color Of
tortoise shell.
This clasp, fits over the buttons of the
trousers and comes down in front far
enough TO fit over the belt and hold il up
to the top OF the waist OF the trousers. Men
who think Of what they wear would much
rather have the top Of their trousers show
han be seen with such a contrivance.
Equally inappropriate to the man OF
taste IL the arrangement 81 belt and sus-
penders which has been shown this wear
by many Of the haberdashers. The same
leather is used in both and the s~uspenders
instead Of being buttoned TO the band OF
the trousers as usual are attached to the
belt, which holds up the trousers by means
OF the usual slips. Such an invention ia
an elaborate effort to provide something
conspicuous with no other merit. Such
contra tions are not Of course made for
the Eastern market although they NAV be
a great success in Elkhart, Ind.
One style which is new this wear has
both utility and smartness tn recommend
u and does much TO settle a disputed oues-
ton of dress. The new motor coats of
pongee are the most delightful garments
that men have had in a long time.
They are intended primarily for motor
ing at night when the wearer ia In evening
dress, They are so light as to he scarcely
1elt and cover entirely the evening suit.
Thew button high over tho ooIla. 80 Eli