The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-05-14
Who Originates
The Styles?

very specifically very satisfac-
torv There are countries where styles do not change But moth
ing else changes Progress and changes i'll the style OF gar
s seen, ccncomants people that change the style OF
garments an unpogressye people In clothes as in everything
else change the of life 1t only the dead who change not
But while we very satisfactorily to pride not
why styles change why they ought to change is not SO easy
to determine who changes them how they are changed
The aors lately held convention and then announced their de-
things be say they they have said through period OF
many years Yet things and sometimes
they were public often revos at the dctum OF the
tailor and does very much if not entirely as it peases
aors telling with real or simulated confidence
that really fashionable gentlemen will evening clothes OF
any will be CARRIED in puppies and dark gays Sarto-
papers onn this verdict and the daily papers carry
it TO communities oven-tad placed the cate
CORY with hoo But Notwithstanding the earnest and perhaps
secaly commendae desires of the ao gentlemen will not wear
Not since the old blue swalowal with has
any cood evening clothes yet every three years least
for the last twenty ao of England America have tried
to bring them 1893 they tried hard that suits of plum color
were made m and exposed in shop windows of the principal cities
They bore labels containing that aorscorrec
evening outside of houses Of correction no one
donned plum color Nor did any one don green blue
cherry the that these oors were gravey declared " nave
Who make the STYLES? The taors have failed utterly bring
new styles evening clothes Since 1893 they have failed on several
occasions attempts drive styles of day wear The Spanish
war brought in military Permitting, arng the bottom
Three ors convention ordered the military sack baned
remained 1t grew shorter and then longer
that all SO with the trousers wide at the hip Three times
they have been disappear but they do not
Some big clothing houses where readmade garments are
designed say that they make the styles Yes we do said clothing
man short time ago kept military sack and the widefpped
trousers in vogue get fashion plates which no one
sees unless he goes back of shop We hire hscasS
artists handsome pictures that in all the newspapers
and magazines goodoong citizen pictures and SO we
have TO have something artistic something nifty to draw
Talors often positively ugly styles we never do
None pictures had men looking Overwhelmed Ill
coats reaching We the ordinary man impress
sion style by presenting pictures OF tasteful ches ana
clothes even the man
who has garments made order requires his tailor 10 cut e
according to cur ideas the ideas adopted conventions OF er
chant alors. ~.
We hear said that individuals create the styles hng
Edward is credited debating the styles hats certain New
York men of the styles not only Tor TINS
country but for England for the world Yet it IS matter to
he noted that the very long started neither England nor
in America Germany, and common IN Italy before eh
of the English speaking appeared it. Germany too orr
nated the butout shoulders device long used in that empire TO
make its soldiers brawny and earnsprng to negbog Aus
trians Frencmen with their interior military estapSe DIV"
smaller punches OF padding 80. RI
individuals may originate Styles but only within certain ItS me
most fashionable man could restore cooked hats and
knee bhes He could not though he might
easily restore red The of variation in cut fabric
and color through which fancy to-day small Nc
matter how artistic or how beautiful thing may be itself unless
Won can induce the public accept you cannot wear it.
Popular caprice strong factor In some seasons the PuDnc
will accept coored hatbands other years it will end with rd-
Guile who wishes to wear them.
Fashions seem like popular movement unonscouy'
ubconsccsly mysterious like of moral reform like re-
ulson feeling against popular hero against popular Scou
drel -
Taiors usually give merely direction to these movements
Not often able either to originate or cono e