The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-13

fashion that it must surely nave Deen
made by an exclusive New York tailor.
If there is any one thing that the OBJ
server cannot overlook in Mr.. Meyers
clothes it is the absolute certainty
that the clothes are proper according
to the class of persons who refer to
their costumes" rather than their
suits" which is very bourgeois term.
secretary of the navy, but they are
just sufficiently apparent to enable one
to understand at glance that he is
a most proper and most orthodox per-
son from the sartorial point of view,
who could not commit an error of
dress without creating an impression
of catastrophe and dissolution.
Hitchcock doesn't quite come up to
the serene level Of Secretary Meyer.
He gives an extraordinary amount Of
attention to clothes, or to his valet, If
he has one-and it is hard to imagine
him without one-but to the discrim-
mating and the cognoscenti it is ap-
parent that he misses the point by be-
ing over-zealous. One is always con-
scious of the coat. It usually runs to
the t. ra t idea and suggests re-
finement of the advertisements in the
street cars. One sees the coat first
and after a time the man in them-a
tall, good looking chap he is, too, and
it's a shame that he runs to that over
perfection. The creases are always
there, in the right place. How he can
get into his trousers without wrink-
ling them is a mystery. The Overcoat
always hangs as it does when the tail
or puts it on and smoothes it down
and steers you over to the mirror to
plished One would almost gamble,
seeing Hitchcock for the first time,
on him somewhere
Secretary of State Knox is in class
of his own 1t is remarkable that a
man of his diminutive size can so eff
fectually escape asserting himself
through his clothes and be at the same
time we'll dressed. But he does. One
is not especially aware of clothes in
his case He suggests dapperness,
trmness whatever it may be called.
His boots-perhaps it is better to say
shoes in his case-are always immac-
ulately polished. His coat is always
brushed. His hands always look Us if
they had just been washed and touch
the little black cigars he smokes
good ones, too-as if they disdaired
them. The clothes are suborinated to
the man and the impression that is
conveyed by them comes in at the tail
end Mr.. Knox seems to eyhale the
assertion that he is perfectly calm and
proper even in the matter OF clothes,
the latter being subjected ny the evil
dent determination Of the man to see
what he is, and what he is about in
any case, whether the other doubts it
or not.
Dickinson is the sort of man with
whom tailors must have trouble. In
the first place he is big and broad
shouldered, has a jaw as square as
granite block and absolutely will not ]
lend his big figure to the wiles of the
tailor to display a coat. He is above
that One can we'll imagine him di-
recting the tailor to send up three
business suits, one frock coat and an
evening suit like he would order
bill of goods from the grocery. 1t
doesn't make any difference whether
the suit is black or grey or brown.
When Dickinson puts it on he is the
same Dickinson absolutely unchanged
IN appearance, WITH the DTOdu SIIOul-
ders and the square jaw and the
straightforward personality upper
most and the clothes so completely
subjected to his personality that they
are not worth considering.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
also a constitutional enemy of tailors.
The other day when the first snow
was on he came to the cabinet meeting
in an open surrey such as the farmers
out in Iowa use, while the others came
in their smart b-oughams or the an |
tique carriages provided by the gov
eminent for the heads Of departments. !
The same contrast prevails in Secre-
tary Wilson's clothes. He sticks to
the Jim Hill idea-the farm is the
most important thing in the United
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