New-York tribune., 1912-02-14
MAN MUST HAVE 50 SUNS
Edict of TaiIors Also PROVIDES
Rapid Changes in Style.
LESS CLOTH AND NO PADS
Convention Here Declares for
Tighter Trousers and Mar
rover Shoulders.

Never before ala SnthtSP'''~
mucn money behind LIS ideas as was put
there YESTERDAY. When in the Gaudy uruea
OF Queen Elizabeth Shakespeare mace
careless comments about mems iasiloLa 4
he could not have dreamed that the Gior'-
ous day would come who7 something over
1O worth OF tailoring interests would
Get together I'm one hotel and determine
10 make his wisdom more true than 1t has
ever becn before But that Is what nap
pened yesterday.
Orcc. while Shakespeare wa writing
Much Ado About NothinG, hc put in the
pcrfactIy good quotation that "the fashion
wears out more apparel than 'hc man
II helped his play along, but It also fur
nlshcd a text for just exactly what the
National Association Of Merchant Ialiors
of America has determined 10 do-to make
fashion wear out clothes 50 fast for the
average good dresser that his house Will
look like an old clothes shop unless he
has lot, o. poor relatives 20 take his out
of.datc Carmclts OF lis hands.
no LONGER viii the careful man be able
to wear a suit just lit.Is Bit beyond TN"
s,a,on. II he tries q, ne will wake up
some morning and find himself a year out
Of date overnight
thereafter let us bau!sh the word con
ssryativc' from the sartoriaI dictionary.
said Ray r. Twyeffort before the annual
lcJnvcution Of tailors. in his report for tho
cCmmittca on fashions. And 50 the word
was bounced, kicked out and chased away.
Il anything made OF cloth is conservative
after this, il won't be worthy OF the name
trousers.
Let us not mnCc but originate fash
ions" pleaded Mr. Twycffort. What an
abyss there IS between the wardrobe Of to-
day and thdt OF solomon in all his glory
Tlcn the question was raised by Mr..
Twycnort that unless tho change I'm STYLES
was made plainly visible to the eye Of tho
, 'layman." what good would Il do the
tailor? None. SO hereafter any man who
wishes to stick TO tn habit Of wearing
clothes Will not lie able To palm of on
his fellow laymen any more archaic suits
The difference will bo so plain that no one
can miss IT,
So. for 1872 tho decree IS FOR clothes
that nothing I'm existence even remotely re-
scmblcs. To fulhl this purpose. the fol-
lowing sartoriaI dream was adopted as Off
cial: Shorter, tighter trousers than ever
before: tighter. shorter sleeves. narrower
shoulders. lower collars. longer rolls. fuller
llapc's and lower waistcoats
! II these changes sound Ike ANYTHING YOU
have heard OF before. multiply them by
several degrees in your minds eye. and
YOU will have t.
And just about the time a man begins n
look like human being to his friends in
this rig-whin, Il viii all be changed
again FOR something else.
AnOtha~
thwart the conspiracy between the man
with the conservative purse and the hand
me-down" dealer No more Will anybody
be able to get by with suit that is not
actually tailored. For "buckram and the
cotton bale is 10 be banIshed from the
clothes makers art
BY the liberal use OF these two devices. II
was declared. the rcady-to- wear clothes
manufacturer has been able lu the past 20
pad sartorial atrocities here and stften
them there until they looked Ike a III.
Therefore no stircnlng and no padding FOR
tho clothes OF 1912. Nothing bat cloth
plain, unsdulteratcd cloth
The technique OF this new tailoring was
eNpoundcd by John +. Spanu. OF Chicago.
in presenting his report OF the committee
on practical work For wear tho com
! llllhN'' mas I'tU AT WORN Ne|lSlUB n 'W
way 20 make clothes that machine cloth
icrs can't initiate
The generation / represent" said Mr..
Mccarthy. who IS a young man, "is FOR
insurgency In tailoring as well IA Iu poll
tics Fifty per cent Of tho old line tailors
do not know that there are thrty-hye
different kinds or suits one man can wear.
Why, | am not willing 20 rest until We
have convinced all well dressed men that
they have no wardrobe at all unless they
have at least thirty different suits in IT,"
! II anybody thinks he can dodge these
edicts of the talors. lct him consider that
every state In the Union was represented
at the convention YESTERDAY. seventy four
cities and a thousand firms. representing
an investment OF the already mentioned
100000. In order to get together on the
way men shall dress they had in connec-
ton with the convention Il style show.
with a model shop, SO that every one could
see Just how the new clothes are to look
and how they are to be made So there is
no hope As President Mccarthy said. 1t
is going to be a good year for clothes. FOR
clothes are still worn bv most people"