Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-17
TROUSERS
COMING TO STYLE
Authority on Mems Wear Says
Old Fashion Is About to
Be Revived

LONDON, April 16.-"Quiz," the well
known authority on mems fashions,
says: Pegtop trousers are coming in
again, but not accompanied by side
whiskers (for "weepers') and stove
pipe hats; wherefore we may thank
our stars that 1t is possible 10 revive
a part of an old fashion without re-
viVing the whole. OF course, our peg
tops are not the pegtops of the sixties
and the 'seventies-those exaggerated
affairs which had the effect of blunt
ing the man of average height down
into dwarf or bunting the tall man
down into man of average height,
which Topped about at the hips IKE
the pantaloons of the gendarmerie, so
that the wearer, in order TO keep them
steady in the walk. had to put his
hands in their pockets and strain them
out at the sides after the fashion or
the circus clown. But they are peg
TONS all the same, however, they may
be not the same but different. Fun at
the hin and full at the knee the trou-
sers of the time get narrower ana
narrower down the leg until they ht
snugly over the instep, and as TINS
style is the most difficult OF all trous-
ers' STYLES to cut and to make up with
ANYTHING like success, I repeat the ad-
vice | have so often given, which Is.
go TO a first-class tailor and pay a rev
extra shillings for first-class work.
Three or four years ago perhaps four
or five. the man who, after set at
tennis, Immediately got into great
white blanket coat and awaited the
resumption of play in that attire. was
regarded as a bit of a crank-or some
thing more than a bit; or strangers
mt 1t down to affectation or 10 a
erandmotherly inclination to coddle
| Rut today-if ] may so anticipate the
| ioys of summer by greeting the com =
| ing tennis season as today-the Whlte
| blanket coat, double breasted and full
| Of body and ample of shoulders, Is as
| common among tennis players as tne
| Norfolk coat is among golfers. IL is
! exceedingly dangerous to cool down
| after a hard and fast set In ngn'
weight flannel trousers and thin sllb
| shirt and as one's blazer is insuf-
ficient to prevent chill and ones ordl'
nary overcoat unsuitable for carrying
about in summer and wearing IN lht
intervals of play, this roomy and lone
! blanket wrap" is in universal IaVoi
both as a protective garment ana one
which in appearance Is in proper nAr' nal
mony with the players azure, a,, n,aT n'
blanket coat, which should reach wei
| below the knee, Is unlined, and mas
! two large patch pockets at the sides
Silver gray silk neckties striped
broadly with black-these are the neck,
ties for the spring. And the pest OF
them is that they come, not only as a
fashion, but as a boon and blessing
for, like the gray lounge suits they SUIT
all sorts and conditions of men. Some
| of these ties suffer from the lihuence
| Of that trrepressible malady of eXag-
geration so prevalent in the land of
neckwear. They display stripes SO
broad that the gray-and black scheme,
as associated with a narrow knot, is en-
tirelv disturbed. If the knot "catches
the broad black stripe in the tying,
then that knot is black all over, like
the too, too conscientious Othello and
the typical Hamlet But these wrong
| sDecimens of a right fashion need not
be bought. They look well enough In
the hosier's window, and it is pity
B to spoil his collection by breaking
= into il,