Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-12

into various designs or with heavy "hIte
cording, or in any one of hundred ana
one different fashions. a
If you insist on color, by all the laws
of good dressing 1t is demanded that you
make those colors both modest and few.
A tiny stripe of black, dark blue, purple,
pink or even a not too Slaring green, Is
permissible. provided they lay on BACK
ground of white, or at least cream color
But loud checks Zig-zag designs comprls-
ing all the colors of the rainbow, and
combinations that instinctively make one
think Of Turkish rug are taboo, or
should be.
And a shirt the main color Of which
is anything but white or cream color IS
even worse. There are shirts of blue, OF
brown, of this color and of that, ex-
pensive ones. too, which are being bought
and worn every day by men who In most
who if asked why they do it would prob
ably ask. in turn, why not?'
The fact remains. however. that when
haberdashers get together talking shop
among themselves-on which occasions
thew of course, say things they would
never dream of saying within hearing OF
IA possible customer-they speak of these
colored articles as hundred mile shirts.
This is strange term for fashionable
haberdasher for it comes straight from
hoboland. But it is pregnant with mean
ing. When hobo prepares to lump
freight for a stolen ride. I am reliably
informed he invariably dons colored
shirt for the reason that it Is less quick
to show dirt. The colored shirt gets ITS
hundred mile appellation from the sup
posed fact that some of them Will stand
a hundred-mile journey on the rods of
some freight train without especial need
of another washing.
And there, perhaps, lies one OF the
Oh
appearance may be expensive. but it will
never be elegant. Think it over, and
you're forced to admit that you never
saw a shirt with a colored body that
really looked dressy. 1t may have been
Sporty looking. or. in the summer. II
may have looked cool and comfortable.
but never dressy. On the other hand,
there never was white shirt, properly
done up, that did not look dressy. And
as for looking cool and comfortable. the
pure white shirt can give it's rivals cards
and spades, and beat them. hands down.
AS to the material that goes in your
shirt. it is something like Bill Nye's barn.
~ don't care what color you paint my
barn" said Nye. so long as YOU paint
il red So with the material. 1t doesn' I
much matter what it is so long as 1t Is
good. Silk, of course, is always desirable
but the best quality Of silk may cost six
or seven dollars or even more. and a
poorer quality, such as may be bought
for about So, is like a pair Of cheap pat
emit leather shoes-it may last and it may
not. Madras or any other good quality
of linen can be had much cheaper and
probably in the end will give more salts
faction. Certainly it will be equally dres'
sy, and in most instances more so. .
That reminds one of the fact that were
We to observe the dictates of Dame Fash
ion to the last letter none of us would
wear soft or neglige shirt under any
circumstances after the first cold breezes
begin to blow in the fall. For those cold
breezes mean the DOMINIC OF a vest. and
according to Dame Fashion. a vest and
a neglige shirt are irreconcilable. She
would have us, with the arrival Of TALL