Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-11-11


worse for us 70 wear It with q sack
coat. But here,the plug hat Is worn
all day. and with any kind Of 4 coat
the wearer can afford. And 30 keen
is the desire for social distinction
that bank messengers, who ere COM
PEELED to wear brass buttons and dark
blue Of dark green or dark wine-col-
ored coats. don big black stoyepipes
and fancy that these hide their liy-
cries. The desire to be considered
somebody socially Is the master pass
sion Of hundreds Of thousands Of
people; and to that passion its pos
SCISSORS sacrifice comfort, good sense
and happiness. SO ION buses and
little compartments on the train, and
in the street II Is rare thai; you find
group Of EngIishmen talking II
they are strangers. The lower classes
fear to intrude upon the higher and
the higher fear that they will con-
tamfnate themselves by speaking to
the lower. and as all wear plug hats
and badly-fitting clothes. no one
knows anyone else's station, and no
one seems sure Of his own. There
, fore they sit in solemn silence, where
with us, the lawyer from Denver
would be telling the Chicago broker
the new one" that the Salt Lake
drummer told him last week, while
the whole smoker laughed until the
Kansas City commission man asked
il they had "heard Of the Jew who
wanted his life insured" The Eng
llsh miss lot of fun by sticking
for their social rights. And you
would think that men who set such
store by being social somebodies
would wear clothes to fit the part.
But the Englishmen are the worst
dressed animals on earth. Far be 1t
from this deponent who never shrinks
from wearing anything Sam Rosen-
4 field puts on him; far be 1t from him
to set himself up as glass Of fash
ion. And yet he would not wear the
!, clothes these English wear II he lost
the advertising of the Star Clothing
4 House in the Gazette for year. And
what's more, Sam Rosenfeld hasn't a
suit in his stock as badly let" as
these English clothes. We went out
one day to a clothes show-the Eton-
Harrow cricket match. All, the swells
of England we're there--and as 1t
was an invitation affair, no one else
was there but Lords and Earls and
Dukes and Honorables, and the face
cards of the deck. And such ClothesI
They wore for coats three-button
old-fashioned "cut-aways" that hiked
up in the neck, wadded under the
, arms, wrinkled across the back and
, bulged out in front like the breast
j bone of a chicken. Underneath these
coats they wore fancy vests that
/, creased across the front, and shirts
], that didn't fit any place. The I'M
dersigned is no dude. He gives little
, thought to raiment, but he would
die OF modification with an English
taiIor's clothes on, and pull them OIL
, and walk easily and rOnchalantly
around in his underwear. As we
walked through the throns we heard
Il Young Jack behind US remark to
the Queen Of Hearts beside him tnas
u the crowd was very mixed. So many
Y Of the trades people are here" But
lii he will agree to wear the rig ne
4 had on that day to a football game
lin Emporia, it will take Eli Raymond
Il and Dennis o'Connor and five extra
policemen to keep the mob back that
would guy him. AS for the women
they have their peculiarities. They
wore evening clothes in the middle
OF the day--soft, fluffy, lacey things
such as Emporia women wear only
at night on extremely smart occa-
sions. It would take dinner az
Newman,s or Dunlap's to call out tne
!. dresses we see every morning IN tne
. streets and on BUSES inLondon' the
tailored street dress Of well-dresseo
] American women is little worn BY the
! Londoners. Instead, they shop ana
market and go about IN chifions ana
] silks and -crepes and light things y
] is exceedingly quesr-pretfy' o.
course-but different from our way
!. but that's What we came here for
to see something different. It We
lhad desired to zee pretty women prop
|, erly dressed and handsome men IN oe'
cent duds, we should have stayed IN
Emporia.