The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-30

Men are modest and tasteful in
their dress.
If you don't believe it, ask the
man you buy your ties from.
81 want to know about the fads
and fashions and foolish things in
mems Clothes" / said to leading
mems furnishings dealer. THE pa
pers are always caricaturing wom-
en- and their makeup. l want
to tell on the men.
"Show me shoulder pads, heel
filters, leg straighteners and all
the beautifiers for men you have. :
"Why, we haven't any," he
gasped. I'VE don't keep those
things. You see them advertised
sometimes, but no good haber-
dasher keeps them. If I'd ever put
those things in, everybody would
laugh at me. Besides, men don't
wear 'em."
1.-THE men are so honest, are
they?" / asked; content to be as
God made them, and wouldn't
make themselves pretty for any
thing?"
Women Are Different.
''Well, it's different with wom-
en-" he compromised; their fig
ures and dress require modifying,
and it's all right. l haven't a
word to say about that. With all
their shams, we love 'em still. But
| I'd despise a man who made up.
There isn't any excuse for it; their
clothes are always practically the
same, and there isn't any reason
why a man shouldn't go through
| life the way he was made"
aren't men getting to be just
as fussy as women about the lit
tile niceties of dress?"
mo; / wouldn't call it fussy;
they are just tasteful"
"Oh, see,' / said; they're
not 'fussy'; they're just being par
ticular when they wear ties and
stockings and scarf pin and cuff
links to match"
Il should have said cravat and
half-hose, l learned later. Seems
that Stockings" and ''tie" are not
good form.)
Does their artistic taste re-
quire garters and suspenders to
match?"
No." he chuckled; "they don't
wear silk garters with silver
| buckles"
Nor yellow garters for luck.
nor monogram buckles? No SEN
timent-just plain, matter-of-fact
conveniences-is that it,"
just Ordinary Suspenders.
Twenty-Five cent garters," he
said, land fifty-cent suspenders.
The proprietor of this store"
mentioning one of the most prom
inent men in town, buys fifty
cent suapemders, a pair for every
pair of trousers. Women come in
here and buy silk suspenders for
men, but men never buy them for
themselves"
What is the most expensive
stocking-half-hose-you have in
stock?"
six dollars and half a pair,
but it's women that buy them.
Here, l just sold pair to a wom-
an few minutes ago." He show
ed the bill. when women have
plenty of money and want to make
men a present, they buy these ex-
pensive things. Men never buy
EN-"
"One mollycoddle came in one
day. another haberdasher told
me, "and said: I am a tennis
player, and / want some hose to
match the grass l wish you
could have seen the man who
waited on him. Most men aren't
like that"
"How about their underwear!
Don't they wear fancy colors?"
YES" he admitted. Now,
that's where you've got 'em. Out
here on the coast, though, is the
only place l have known men tc
wear fancy colored undercloth-
ing, and I've been in the business
Is years. Look at this" and he
held up the pinkest pinky silk up-
dershirt.
Them Pink Underc1othes.
THAT settles it, / said; 1.-THE
women are even; there's some
thing too utterly absf1rd To me In