The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-11
NOISY" CLOTHES
NOW UNDER
FASHION s BAN
(Chicago Daily News.)

mems clothing and forced inventive
tailors to rack their brains almost to
desperation in their endeavor nearly
to Guido the gayly decked courtiers
of Elizabethan days, striving TO salts
fly the public mania for "nobby
clothes, are doomed. SO declared ex-
perts who viewed the displays of the
latest wrinkles" in masculine wear
ing apparel exhibited at the opening
of the Chicago fashion show at the
Coliseum today. To be up-to-date in
clothes now you must be plain. Wear
conservatively cut clothes and lay
aside the fancy work.
Conservative colors, the plain blues,
grays and browns, with the color
clashing stripes, checks and plaids,
once so popular, as well as plain pat
terms, seem to have taken precedence
over the deliberately hued and multi
colored combinations that were once
in style. This is the mandate of
the fashion dictators who determine
what man should wear and whose
orders are complied with by most men
who want to appear like the rest of
the crowd.
EYES," said A. L. Fierlein, manager
of the show, conservative clothes
are the thing this year. Most of the
manufacturers won't make any more
of the fancy suits they once found
such great demand for, because they
can't sell them any more. People in
Chicago mean, of course, the men,
for our show this year does not pay
any attention at all to the display of
woman's wearing appar6l-are tired
of the lace and embroidery and all
the extreme styles, and won't buy
them any more.
What they want this year." he con-
tinued, lis a plainly modelled suit, cut
without any of the rancy Guirks and
twists which Chicago went mad over
year and two years ago. They don't
care for the gaudy colors any more,
| either. Give them a plain cloth with
out the wild profusion and fantastical
array of stripes and outlandish color
schemes and they VIII be satisfied.
Browns will be the rage this year, it
would seem from the number of suits
and coats of that color on exhibition,
but blues and plain grays are not
as yet relegated to the discard.
mo matter what the color, it must
be plain and not a rainbow riot that
clashes on the eye and makes a man
conspicuous when he is still block
away.
1.-THE thing that strikes me funniest
of ALL" he said, with smile, about
a show of this sort-and have engin-
eered a good many of them-is the
way styles will change and the way
people will follow suit and wear what
the crowd is wearing. I have always
stood for plain clothes, personally, and
/ the noisy varieties never made much
of a hit with me, and so have always
considered myself somewhat on the
| sidelines watching the crowds.
Zone year everyone wants a noisy
suit and will insist on having 1t and
the next year, like the present season,
will demand a PLAIN suit with just the
same particularly. But that's what
keeps the tailors busy and the people
satisfied"
Here's the thing" said an enthusi-
astic demonstrator in charge of one of
the booths of clothing house. do
you ever find in the morning when you
get up and dress that your wife has
rifed your trousers pocket and left
you barely enough money to get you
down to your office. Well, then, step
over here and let me snow you my
latest patent secret pocket. 1t is
placed on the inside of your trousers
and directly behind the little watch
pocket.
There is not even button or seam
which viii betray It's hiding place
and there is no chance for any one
to find where your money is secreted
Our clothes all contain this new peck
ct and, Id leve me, it can't be beat
You ought to have one"
At another booth a man was busily
engaged operating a machine and jus
as rapidly talking to a crowd of mer
grouped about him, explaining the
{ 'world-beating" benefits to be derived
from his button-attaching device an(
it's hOsiery-mending attachment.
"A boon TO bachelors and tired mo
TIERS" he was saying as his audience
waxed enthusiastic over the demon
stration.
In still another part of the building