Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-08
WILL THE LADIES WEAR WAIST
COATS?

COATS?
The pleasure derived from the an
nouncement, on seeming good au-
thority, that the ladies are going to
wear waistcoats this year, we regret
to say, is Immediately neutralized, if
not altogether destroyed, by the fur
ther announcement that mosl of the
waistcoats going with the tnree-piece
suits for women are merely simulat-
ed, not real, waistcoats. Now, a
simulated waistcoat is no waistcoat |
at all. What man has been. hoping |
for and looking forward to for many |
years is that woman, in her natural
and praiseworthy fondness for his at
tire, would some day, sooner or later,
adopt his waistcoat. In this antici-
patton he has been moved by the
same motive that prompted him to
hail with rejoicing the announce
ment that she was going to have
real, not simulated, pockets in her
skirts. Pockets are things all right
thinking men would like to see in
troduced into fashions for women,
for throughout all history man has
been carrying in his pockets things
that by all rights she should carry,
and probably would carry, if only
she had pockets in which to put
them
The great charm of waistcoat,
from mans point of view, is that it is
largely made up of pockets. 1t has
two lower and two upper, and usual
ly one inside. Take these with the
two side and two hip and fob pock-
cts in his trousers, and with the two
/ lower and one upper outside and two
inside pockets of his coat-to leave
his overcoat out of the discussion
mpletely-and it will quickly be
!; seen that man has an ample equip
ment of places in which to put
things, and forget them. At the
} most, woman has only one pocket
and this is generally in her other
} skirt when she is out with man, sc
/ that man has to furnish what might
3 be called the storage room for the
trip, excursion or tour, as the case
a may be.
Man might not complain of this
v if it were not for something else
b A woman no sooner hands him some
= thing to put in his pocket than she
wants it again, and then she seem!
: to take delight in seeing him begir
= with his trousers pockets and en(
Il with his waistcoat pockets in his ef
: forts to find it. He never does fine
r it the first time he goes through thu
t process, of course, and seldom tn
e second time, so that this gives th
g woman he is so anxious to please al
t opportunity of asking him if he can
e he put things. To be frank about il
e he cannot. If you have ever oh
e served man looking through hi
e pockets for a knife, lead pencil,
y card, comb, ticket, dime-any
n thing-you have seen how little h
It knows about its exact location, an
a you will appreciate how needless an
how cruel it is for a woman to loo
e at him smilingly and to make n
lie marks about his methods, when h
,e is almost hopelessly lost in his wal
,r derings between trousers and coz
n and waistcoat.
o. If woman is going to wear wais
I'd coat, by all means let it have pocl
p ets-five of them-and then let h,
be as agreeable as man has ev'
is been in the matter of carrying thing
d. The moment she puts on a real, n,
On a simulated waistcoat, he may as
it her to carrythings for him, and the
es equality between the sexes will ha'
ry received real, and not simulate
e. forward impulse.