Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20

~ iNG no Tor the summer wardrobe
of mere man-modern saturnalia
of nilords the tailor and the
~ haberdasher, and marked depres-
of the bank accounts of you
and me-though depressing, after all, only
in proportion to the care exercised in
choosing where and what TO buy.
The grim fact remains, however, that
no matter how careful he may be- prac-
t'cally every man in the city must soon
buy in some degree For the time is
upon us when the heavy suitings and the
thick underwear must be discarded for
lighter and cooler materials. and few II
any there be who will find that the ward
robe of last summer will serve again
this coming season without augnenta-
ton.
In a goody proportion of instances,
too, il is extremely probable that it will
be necessary for mere man to buy prac-
tically a complete new outfit. True. 1t
may be that the trunks stored away in
the attic will yield up one or two suits
of light underwear that can still be made
10 serve But that. probably, will be
q bout all. OF course, again. one or both
last summers suits have been carefully
guarded against moths and with d bit of
cleaning and pressing Will look quite
preSentable. Nevertheless they probably
viii have to be replaced. for the very
good reason that the styles have changed.
So it is also with the old straw hat,
and even in marked extent in the matter
Of neckwear. Ones shirts and hosiery.
il they We're ever preserved might last
from summer TO summer. to the untold
delight of the economist. for the styles in
these do not change. barring perhaps new
shirt patterns which spring into vogue
every now and then. but which are rela-
lively unimportant. But, unfortunately,
shirts and hosiery are rarely. If ever. pre-
served. There is not one man In hun
dred who ever packs away either OF these
articles at the end OF summer. Instead,
the chances are that by the time sum-
mer is ended the shirts and hose of that
season are just about ended. too. And
so their owner wears them once twice
more. and then consigns them to the rag
bag. The obvious result is that, comes a
new summer and the average man finds
II necessary TO reoutfit himself completely
from head TO toe
Several months nine. To be exact
when autumn was chasing the straw hats
TO cover, and winter was hard ahead
there We're published in these columns com
parative estimates of the cost at which
three men. of representatively different
financial circumstances. might outfit
themselves for the cold season outfit
would be thoroughly well dressed In
every detail. though not necessarily elab-
orately dressed. Now, after a careful in
Vestigation of the wares of the leading
mems shops of the city as we'll as a mum
Der of the more humble establishments,
similar estimates have been made as to
the comparative cost of three different
summer wardrobes. In touring the shops
the writer tried to bear III mind what
would be most suitable for a well dressed
man. gagged from the standpoint OF
his income. Ard while il ia necessarily
true that the three different lists vary
considerably in elaborateness. the arti-
Cles mentioned in each are all good anG
serviceable. Indeed. it might be that some
of the articles in the cheaper wardrobe
might outwear those in the more eXpen-
sive ones. Such things have happened
ere this.
tour of the mems shops at this par
ticular season brings one fact notably tO
view. Practically every one will admit
That, for some inexplicable reason, the