Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-11

never make mine do-a fat, smooth. deep
turn-up that was the admiration of our
little water place. The trick Is particu-
larry valuable on vacation.
Every well dressed man has two pairs
of pants alike he finally told me. "One
is made turned up, the other Is made
turned down.
Sewed turned-up. 1t dawned on me.
cut and Sewed turned up just right:
they cannot be turned down, he said
and showed me.
You start. out in the morning either
turned-up or turned-down, | said when
YOU desire TO change, you change your
pants?
He said yes: but we are getting away
from de Fouqueres, who spoke of pants
in general
They are larger and larger. he said
almost entirely covering the gaiter OF
the shoe.
What do you think of side creases?" I
asked.
1T is done he aid. But I think it
an invention of the taiiors.
Was it not invented by young men.
maliciously. To force their stout COM
petitors to walk WIDE"
Not by me'ihe answered. Il consider
side-oreased pants bizarre.
This shows that his good taste is re2i
and simple and sure. If he declares that
F'renchnen will never be able to initiate
the correct GOODNESS and disdain of al
emotion characterizing the English gem
tradition. liveliness and courage-he
nevertheless schools himself to tranquil
exterior If he thinks that the French
dandy can add grace and fancy To London
styles. he still inspires himself from the
London tradition.
London is the only place for mems
clothes" he sums up. There is an ele-
ganre about London tailoring that it Is
impossible to find elsewhere. Yet il re-
quires more taste and experience to dress
we'll today than, even. in the times of the
regency In the old days styles were
made by the court. Nowadays they are
made very much by tailors-who often
commit mistakes of taste. In the old
DAYS ribbons, lace and powder aided to
complete a costume that might pass Tor
elephant but today our clothes are ele-
CANT only by their cut and the way we
wear them.
Annoying mistakes can be made in
seeming trifles. Any American girl in
Paris who has danced with Andre de Fou-
quieres knows perfectly that the correct
young fellows white evening gloves have
straight black embroidered lines down
their backs. And an American new to
Paris can almost ruin himself any night
by wearing a silk high hat into MaXims.
when the only right thing is the claque
or 1Ol0lng opera nat III uUil
| ut is practical said NJ. de Fouquieres;
that is why we Parisians revived it.
London follows
! Would he be ruined?" l asked.
NO" he laughed. mot In society, and
even less at Maxim's Trides of dress are
important. but other things are more so. :.
| 1 think it, after ALL the ''other things
that give him his remarkable place. Many
have wondered how this young French
man has attained such influence among
the best people of the American colony
| OF course. he was born to French society.
but so were hundreds of young sprigs
whose names our Americans scarcely
know.
For one thing his brother. Pierre de
Fouquieres has official social position
| He is director adjoint of the protocol at
the foreign office. understudy of the ceie-
brated Mollard whose title is introduceT
| of amba SsadOrs.
| 1t was partly in this way that Andre
de Fouquieres began his friendly career