The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-13
Dorothy Dix Says
MAN AND HIS CLOTHES.
BY Dorothy Dix
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

because il he wasn't just naturally shift
less, he would shave and brush his
clothes and press them, and keep him
self looking tidy. No man who thought
more OF ease than he did of his personal
appearance would get a job with me
Suppose the next man who came
along looked like a patchwork quilt,
that he had on red .necktie and pink
shirt, and brown coat, and blue
waistcoat and gray trousers. and his
nccktie was coming united and his shoes
half laced. ] wouldn't hire him for any
position requiring accuracy nor quick
thinking should know him to be the
sort OF a man who never notices things
and who never sees an opportunity until
somebody else comes along and points
it out TO him. He'd never catch on to
what rival was doing-or else he
would know that up-to-date men were
matching their shirts and ties
And I'd know that he would make
the kind of bookkeeper whose ac-
counts never balanced, or a stenogra-
pher who would spell half the words
wrong, or a shipping clerk who would
bill goods to Mass when they should
go to Miss, because his clothes would
show that he was inattentivc to detail
Otherwise, he wouldn't have considered
that just any sort of a mix-up OF suits
was good enough, and he would have
taken the trouble to have tied his neck
tie properly and laced his shoes secure
ly, and worn the coat and vest and
trousers that belonged together.
Suppose the next man was flashily
dressed in plaids that you could hear
coming mile off, and a red waistcoat,
and wore much cheap jewelry. Sup
pose his clothes showed that the money
that should have gone in quality went
in gaudiness and that his feet were
clad in cheap patent feathers with no
wear in them instead of good leather
Not for me. | would know that he
lacked judgment, and was tinhorn
sport, who would be more interested in
prize fights than he was in the grocery
trade, and that his thoughts would be
occupied with figuring out the chances
Of some white hope instead of how to
raise himself and become an employers
hope.
Suppose the next man was immacu-
lately dressed, Suppose detected at a
glance that his scarf never cost cent
under $3.50 that his clothes were cut
by very fashionable tailor. and his hat
was the very latest expensive block.
Suppose, in short, he looked like a mil
lionaire instead of a man applying for
a 2S-a-week job. | wouldn't hire him
because I'd be afraid OF what he would
do to the cash register. The clothes
! mania can be just as demoralizing as
; the drink mania, and wouldn't trust a
] man too far whose vanity made him
dress above his station.
5 Suppose the next man who came ir
I, was shabby, but clean. Suppose hi.
n clothes showed hard wear, but the,
I were brushed and pressed, and the very
r best made Of them that could be. Sup
c pose ! saw that he trimmed his cuff,
and linked the seams in his coat wher,
a il had worn white I'd consider him he.
: c3,ise I'd know he'd be energetic and
4 resourceiul, and that he would do tn,
c best he could under hard stress OF cir.
. cumstances
."Or | would hire the man who hat
dressed his part, as they say on tn,
stage, who was clean and neat and spiC
and span, and had bought clothes suit
able to his person and his station. Al.
ways If were hiring men, I'd give tn,
preference to the we'll dressed man, be
sause any man barring some accidema
hard luck story in these days can b,
. we'll dressed If he's got energy enough
to get out and hustle Nnety.nin,
times out of hundred the down at the
heels man is the man who is afraid o
work"