The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-09
EXTREME STYLES
co NO MORE, THE
TA|LORS DECREE
But They Spring a Flannel
!. Evening Vest That's "a
i Pretty Thing"
HAS GILT TRIMMINGS.
And to Be Just Right You
Must Have a One
Button Coat.
HAS GILT TRIMMINGS.

n when the annual convention OF the
kMerchant Tailors National Exchange
smet at the Hotel Aston to-day President
III. w. Gardner rose up and declared
bthat 1t was time that the men who make
Ehe nations clothes We're treated Sc
sfiously. Mr.. Gardner begged the dele
Rgates 10 the convention to please abstain
lfrom telling representatives., he said
Epressmen"-any about any styles
tthat had upon them the brand OF the
4recent Chicago tailors' convention,
Sxhere diamond pocketed waistcoats were
introduced TO an astonshed world.
" So the convention didn't But The
lEvening World is able to state on most
Sreliable authority that down in the
sPompean room of the Hotel Astor
sthere turks waistcoat-an evening
twaistcoat-of white flannel, round the
Hlapels of which gold braid zg-zags
kChase themselves.
Just to rub 1t in, apparently, the
rconcocters OF this pretty thing have
.added row OF smoked pearl, silt-edged
S1buttons around the equator.
~ This walstcoat was conceived In Erie.
,lPa, They run to extremes in Erie IN
i their Impotence to run anywhere.
But TO return to President Gardner.
After chaplain had prayed for the
ftailors, and the Hon, Patrick +. Nc
Rowan had swelled them all UP BY re.
Herring TO their vast measurement Of
Ashings"-he started to say vest but
hadn't the nerve-to return. then, to
president Gardner, he said that any
member of the organization that doomed
freak clothes would be barred hencefor-
ward from the secret archives OF the
credit department Information bureau.
Al which threat the tailors turned the
color of canton flannel. Continuing,
president Gardner said:
X The End OF Freaks.
There is nothing humorous about
taDors. We are business men-digni-
ned business men, just like bankers or
brokers. The levity which has been
manifested in dealing with our conven-
,tions in the past must stop. We are,
isay. serious men; there is nothing hui
morous about tailors.'
Here the president was saved from
tautological break by the thunders Of
applause that greeted his remarks.
Then he said:
II hope that you gentlemen will SO
conduct yourselves during this conven-
ton that 1t will not be necessary to
convey you by wheelbarrow from the
bar TO the convention nah SOUNDS OF
mirth). Yes, | mean You, 100, ION
Wilson and in Philadelphia
But that is another story. After all,
q tailors' convention meets to set the
styles, 50 that last years suit won't DO
for this. In the momentous words OF
Charlie Lee-no relation TO lonl-ot
Providence, The death knell or eN-
tremes IN dress has been rung.
Whatever quaint conCeits may possess
Chicago tailurs, the garment cutters OF
the East are out tor the chaste-o!
mission-style in clothes. THIS, not
withstanding the white flannel waist
coat-which, by the way, had thihgs
over it-and a coat from Providence,
Ri which deserves new sentence.
Y This coat then, is OF the Nhiuldge or
Third Avenue Street Railway Narle'? u
stripage # is dOuble-breasted, with one
button to port and one 10 starboaru.
When the coat Is Duuoned the effect OF
that lone black port button gllstening on
The gray eXpanse of coat looms up like
an illuminated patent medicine sign on
,BroadWays night sky outside OF these
manifestations of provincial ebullitiOn
tlle display in the model room Is all to
the death knel Of extremes, &c.
Shoulder pads have gone to the limbo
OF George Conan coats, ana anything
but blue serge, or at the most, shep-
herds plaids, is as scarce as preachers
at French adaptation.
Trousers will be worn turned up at
the bottom, and the general tendency
is to loose full flowing lines. The Eng
fish tweed coat with numerous pockets
stuck on II, like three-sheets on blank
wall Is to be the real thing.
In evening clothes seams have been
etadicated and the tails heightened,
Sky-blue evening coats Will he distinctly
Lad form, and for the beneft OF those
Chicago tallors New York Will not wear
green hats. red waistcoats or diamond
buttons.
By-,he way, If you are ready-madc
man. don't go to the tailors ConveU-
zion. You would be as popular as q
man who .havcs himself getting hair
cut on Sunday morning Ready-Hade
taiiuis are barred absolutely. Sergeant
alarms Armstrong has orders to eJec,
ail such-but, for their benefit, tina
white flannel wa!stcoat is pretty thing
There is tailor at the convention
called II. " Toothaker, who s,arte,
life, he confessed, as dentist, bu
somehow failed to work up practice
He comes from Hartford
: According to Mr., Lee all ta'lors dress
themselves. 1t would be bad form q
wear clothes made by colleague. Tho
result at the Aston Is gratifying
Wrinkles at the back OF the neck Seen
--unon!clally-tO lie popular