Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-05
EVENING DRESS
CHANGES LITTLE
MEMS FORMAL ATTIRE MUST BE
ALL BLACK AND WHITE WITH
OUT FREAKISHNESS.
FIT Is THE MAIN THING.
SmaTtness in WaiStcoats and Patent
Leather Pumps the Vogue This
Season.
DEATH KNELL OF OPERA HAT.

Perhaps its simplicity makes every
detail of evening dress 50 important for
the carefully dressed man gives greater
care To no other costume in his ward
robe. 1t is important to avoid every
thing that savors of freakineSs or bad
style. 1t is not to he denied that even
IN evening dress there has been greater
latitude in recent years, yet there must
be no presumption on the few privileges
such as soft shirts and pleated bosoms.
Under no circumstances is there to be
any interruption to the color scheme of
proper evening dress, which remains al
| WAYS white and black From this most
| important rule there has been no de
paru4re.
Little Change in Style.
Tie changes in the style of a mans
evening suit are scarcely perceptible
from year to year TO any but the profess
slonal eve. The tails of his coat may
| be longer, the collar may be covered
with rep instead of smooth silk or his
trousers may be finished with a different
braid one winter from the next. YET it
| is only important to modishncsS to have
| a good mt, proper material and lapels
that are the style. This year the lapelS
| should be of satin and should be pointed
and not rolled. The waistcoat. which
must be white for formal evening wear,
| must be cut to point in the opening,
| but not with the exaggerated pointed
ness Of q few seasons ago Three but
tons should be it's depth. and the smart
est OF the white waistcOats are finished
with collar
Nothing is so important in the dress
shirt as the fit. 1t is more necessary to
| have II lie perfectly flat than il is to
have it of fine linen One need only OBJ
serve the dressing of the men who prom
enade in the corridor behind the parterre
boxes at the Metropolitan TO see that
| little stress is laid on the fancy shirt
The two pearl studs that button it are
all the ornament that such shirt needs
| Men who happen to possess one large
pearl are very likely to wear it. but two
plain pearls with no other jewel is the
best possible form. For the soft bosom
shirts three studs are worn usually. and
/ that precaution is wholly founded on
utility. Soft shirts will not keep in place
with only two buttons.
Attached Collars Not Popular.
A part of the shirt is the collar. and
this is true in reality when the shirt and
collar are worn attached. as is the case
with most men who make dress Il sub
iect of thought. There is no rule as to
the style of the collar to be worn with
evening dress. 1t is only in this country
that men do not care for the collar tina
is attached to the shirt
THAT comes from the feeling of our
men, said the haberdasher who gave
this Information on dress fashions, that
the only way for them 10 feel really
dressed up is to have something tight
about their necks. No well fitting shirt
with the collar attached can he drawn
so tightly as Il collar that hns been but
toned on. So the smallest number of
SHIRTS with the collar attached are made
here or sent out here from England and
France. Yet it is wholly possible for a
collar TO ut well without being SO tight
that the wearers eyes pop out. Occa-
sonally one sees with evening dress the
high turnover collar. That is not strict.
ly the best form, however, for those col
lars suggest n certain informaity fol
evening wear. The standing collar will
the poke enjoys just now less favor than
the open collar, although one is Just as
much good form as the other
Tie Must Be White.
Only a white tie is possible for even
ing dress. and this year the edges orf
cut straight in contrast to the style OF
several seasons past, when they ,yprt
pointed at the ends. The ties are mad,
in pique in place Of lawn, which woulC
never tie so well. as the material would
never take the starch to an extent sufIi
cent to make it heavy. The piune nat
terms are in small checks, and the diff
terence between the ends and the middle
IS very slight, so there is not the leos
suggestion of the butterfly effect tina
had come to be 50 Oyerworked. The sam,
IS true in the case of the black silk II,
which is worn with the dinner iacltct al
IN mourning. 1t has square ends meas
uring about two and half inches, varjpy
niue IN width at any point and has 10
ornament other than perhaps narrow
fringe"
The white waistcoat is smartest vber
the plque is without any other Uattrrf
than stripe or ailover check II shoul,
not be made too stiff, as any suggestion
OF gloss IS considered vulgar The tire,
buttons which are the proper length al
the waistcoat may he Of mother Of pear
Or any similar material The utmost ex
traYagance allowed in the pattern If tn,
dress WaiStCnat may be an allOveF scroI
or foliage design. The pIain invisible
check is smarter. The collar should no
he more than 2l2 inches wide at any
point.
Pumps in patent leather are the prone
footwear for evening dress. and witt
them should be swOrn black silk socks
preferably with no color in the pattern
| But men who dress well in every mar
tlcblar frequently wear 10 the opera au,
to dinner buttoned patent leather shoes
| EVEN the low quarter patent Gather Il
worn, but that il SO much the same NJ
The pumps it is difficult 10 see what al
vantage they possess, even for the laZ,
man. High buttoued shoes are bette
than these, hut patent leather pumps ar
the mode demanded.
Opera Hat Disappears.
Where, OH where is the opera hat. +
the question that suggests itself to ON
who sees the we'll dressed men at tn
opera now. The convenient coilapsibl
silk hats are few and far between an,
the wearers look hopelessly ont Of th
mode. They seem to have been fouu,
too utilitariau and have gone by tn
} board except on the part If the out O.
D town visitors who make II a point 4
bring them to New York for the opera
Heavy white gloves are worn for drr~,
! and st dances q thinner. softer gualit
il preferred. For men who keep thca
; on all evening at the opera the thjuur
. BID are sometimes more comfortable
= The heavy white gloves have stitchu
vt the same color as the kid and the hes
( style for white gloves at dances H. {
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