The Daily Missoulian., 1912-07-29
life to the narrower circle of interests
OF the individual tailor.


OF the individual tailor.
Complaint Is often made that the
women of today are extravagaht IN
their tastes and want at least three
dresses for every one owned by their
mothers. ITO anyone familiar wit)l
the wardrobe of the average we'll
dressed man 1t would seem that the
masculine extravaganza was quite
equal to that of the feminine sex. The
time In past when one suit season
IL regarded as sufficient The fact
that men now are wearing SO many
different colors Is partly responsible
for the increased number of suits re-
uuired by the we'll dressed man. Ac-
cording to an authority upon the sub
ject, properly dressed man should
have six lounge suits for morning
wear In order that he may not seem
to appear too often In the same suit,
but may dress differently for each OF
the six days In the week A list sug-
gestve of the suits included blue
serge. either a gray Scotch plaid or
gray with hair line, a brown suit. a
suit In one of the new blue green
shades, one In the biscuit -colored
whipcords and another of gray flannel.
These are only the informal suits. In
addition there should be Il gray out
away for more important business oc-
casions and number of different va
rieties of evening clothes, including
the dinner jacket and the regulation
dress coat.
A considerable amount of attention
always Is given to the clothes of coll
lege men, and these usually present
the extremes in new fashions and cuts.
When Wide trousers were In vogue the
college man affected style quite re-
sembling the divided skirt of the dress
reform female. Now that the conven-
tional trousers are narrow some OF
the young men frequenting the New
England colleges may be seen In Bos-
ton wearing as near an approach to a
divided hobble skirt as can be i'm
agined. and the girls find II quite as
interesting at times to speculate as to
how they would manage to escape a
vicious watch dog as the lhen during
the past two years have found 1t to
watch hobble- skirted girl step over q
bad crossing.
In most of the stores where mems
ready-made clothing Is sofa the gar
ments are altered to meet the needs OF
the customer without extra charge, but
In many stores this privilege has been
so abused that the shopkeepers are
considering some other method. Under
the current system of clothes cutting.
few alterations are needed for the
normal figure, 80 that the employment
OF an alterer for every salesman In a
ready-made clothing department no
longer is necessary. In New England,
number of the stores tried the ex-
pertinent of charging for alterations in
mems clothes just as IL done for
Women's apparel. In a store In Boston
where this was done II was found that
the clerks were receiving a percentage
from the management of the altera-
ton department and thus were induced
to make the customer pay for unneces- :
sary alterations.
An effort now Is being made to con-
slider the comfort of men in warm
weather more than ever before. The
entrance of the shirt waist man was
quite noticeable In many localities this
year. and It Is believed that to Ger.
tain extent he has come to stay. Al
one of the United States revenue cut
ter stations the semi-formai dress DUR
Ing the summer, js.,a soft white shirt
ana white duck trousers, There never
has been a season when the clothes oi
men seemed better adapted 10 tho
shirt waist tad than at present. yhe