Evening journal., 1919-10-20
BALLET STYLES FOR
men ARE GOING.
BY Spring Pockets Will Be
Returned to Proper
Place
FEARED EXPOSE
OF SHIRT TAILS

Although men Of voting age and aver
age discretion take little thought Of
whercwilh they shall clothe them
selves, they have been getting anxious
about 10 this Fall. And the anxiety
was not only about The price. although
that was and is enough 10 give any
body but a millionaire or a nine-dollar-
a-day bricklayer cold shiyers down his
spine.
10 was something more serious than
price. because at "a pinch one could do
without and join a patch club It
was the siyle-the fashions that one
sees displayed In hand-me-down shops,
and the fashions that ones tailor dis
plays with nuctuOus pride. swearing
that nothing else can be worn by any
self-respecting male member of society.
strong men Of voting age and aver
age dlccretiOn shuddered as they be-
held these strange garments And as
they watched the shop windows be-
come more and more fantastic in the
cut OF their wares they began 10 wear
that this new form OF radlcalism. de-
vised 10 meet the taste Of BOlsheyism,
would keep getting worse and worse
until, with all the patch clubs dis
banded by the passing Of time and the
passing OF patches, they would have TO
wear these unspeakable duds.
They pictured themselves coming
home TO their wives one day in a
double-breasted coat-a perfect "a
chest and 30 waist-draped over an
imperfect 3S chest and pluperfect as
waist. and they wondered vaguely
whether stays are put on over the
head like a-a-whatever it is that is put
on over the head-or footforemost
like pair OF pants In their minds
eye they could see themselves getting
on a street car. with the vent In the
back Of their fashionable coat gaping
and exposing wad Of shirt-tail that
ought, by all rules OF sartorial pro-
prieties be somewhere else. They
could imagine themselves reaching hur-
riedly into their old side pocket for
the pipe and pouch that were once
there. and finding they mad slipped
away somewhere. and that the pocket
which once ran north and south had
elevated its entrance 10 such an angle
that II could only be entered by
deXtrous approach from the rear.
Hands being still where they have
always benin front-this would re-
quire acrobatc talent Of a high order.
And those coat-tailsl Oh, those coat
'ailsi Those spreading coai-tailsi
IfI4.naa Al - a..
10 with them? sitting down. are they
10 be pulled up or spread like a pea
cocks fan, thus, even in polite society,
exposing a most unlovely wad of shirt
tail? Put things in these pockets and
hey flare worse; leave things out and
Ihe flare drapes itself in ruffes.
But. besides all this, there are tucks
and tucklets, belts and beltlets,
buckles. buttons I'm unheard Of places.
and what all and what not. making OF |
he coat a thing that might possibly |
20 with doublet and hose or with a |
'allet dancers tights. but not a thing
hat. by, any stretch OF the average
oting mans imagination, could 90
With an ordinary pair OF pants.
10 hasn't struck The pants yet-this
'MhN VI ANMANWAArAii- AAAiA AIAfAE II NAUIE
or the man OF voting age and average
iscretion that II will not In fact,
here is an assurance that 70 will not.
nd, furthermore, that the present
lyle in coats is only an after-the-war
orm Of idiocy that is already dis
pearng
From New York comes the authorila-
We statement that by Spring. clothes.
he buying season for which is lust
pening will be clothes again and not
ircus gear. one Of the most reliable
ia the clothing trade says:
"Spring styles in mems clothes are !
lore conservative than for some time :
asst Belted and waist seam models Q
re few and novelty effects in pockets .
re conspicuous by their absence.
is the result Of labor {
)nditi0ns and the cloth shortage. {
say. While some pro- 1
lcers are making every effort TO keep G
rices down, others are concentrating {
n equality and disregardiqg the many I
Npenses that boost prices 10 high {
CURES"
Also. while soothing The feelings n
bout styles, the same publication {
ives a hopeful feeling in the pocket g
)ok by saying: a
"One manufacturer said that he had 4
'cided TO dispense with styles and In
9th that would mean o price Of more 7
IAN si5. wholesale, in The belief that q
Ie consumption Of suits selling above 4
., retail, viii be small"
This it is that next Spring promises n
shift The queer things that now 4
habit shop windows 10 the remote
lckwoods provinces where antiqualed D
yles go, or to Front street where n
lything goes =