The San Francisco call., 1909-11-14
By Maud Heath Blank

n o men and women dress to please themselves
each other? That is one of the time honored
- queries that bob up about once in so often,
gardless Of the perfectly obvious If any
Of an observing habit and inquiring mind has met
sane man who admires tube figures, peach basket
hats and rodent infested coiffures he will receive
suitable reward for his discovery by communicating
with the natural history editor of The Call
Likewise, any person who is acquainted with a
woman who processes beauty in the green hats
crocheted ties pegtop trousers and lurid socks affected
this summer by the lords of creation, unmndful of
their complexion build individual brand of pulchr
tude will receive similar recompense by reporting
the same functionary Of this paper.
1t is true that men profess the same undying love
for wornanIpd when encased in silhouette gowns that
they did in the days of the hoopskirt, the Grecian
bend and the dromedary hump; but who recalls any
tricities? Long suffering will pretend to adore
her husband lover, when he appears in green
derby, yarn four in hand, varsity suit and
bright blue pcrcoated hosiery, but does she think he
looks well? 1t is hard to te-not to say impossible
For so many centuries have had to conceal our
deepest feelings that it well nigh of the question
expect to be frank the subject of and his
vsgaries. But it is significant that the all for love
and the world well lost" type of woman lived and
ourished in the days of small clothes and powdered
hair In this age OF ready made sack suits and uni
versal derbies the who prefers impecunouS
almost as extinct the dodo That is probably due
10 the fact that there is little difference in the
appearance of good looking young man in cheap
sack suit, with inverted green pot his head and
an ordinary looking old in expensive sack
suit with inverted black bean pot surmountng his
Uranium.
doubt very much if the average woman loves
soldier especially if his hypothetical valor appeals
so greatly to her do his clothes. The uniformed
lad OF her fancy may be Drawer, better than the
general of mankind, but he is least different
from the 10000 other men she sees, who look if
they had been cast in mold which there
reasonable hope of destroying Why, even a motor
man, railroad conductor boatman is a close
second to the soldier and any of them will leave the
staid businessman among the also in the race
for many woman's affections.
II is the eternal sameness of mans attire that we
depore. And right here is the the question
whether not we dress to please ourselves OF
do. If we were trying 70 please our hus-
bands or other male belongings we would wear
white muslin dress in the and a black gown
in the winter, made kind of tight and plain year
after year, just they light suit in summer
and dark in winter, made nearly alike that
only tailor tell whether they came into being
this season a decade ago. And if men regulated
their wearing apparel to please wouldn't they wear
knee breeches and powdered wigs and velvet and satin
coats and wastcoats, with lace rues, silver buckled
shoes and all the of the accessories that made so
fascinating all the chivarous beaus that fourshed and
firted and fought in the days that more1 Of