The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-03-05

plicity Of modelling and a nearer
approach to the lines that marked
Mems Clothing of several years, ago
8 will feature the spring and summer
-Q displays this year.
Conditions in the clothing industry
D. are more settled than they have been
since 1911. Factories are running at
I top speed. wherever there are orders
Tor merchandise and there hasn't been
the hurry-worry of other years. AS a
result clothes have been made much
better; fabrics have improved and
more attention has been paid to style.
~" Like hundreds of other industries,
the clothing game is gradually getting
back TO normally. The last two years
have been hard ones for almost every
one concerned and the showing finan-
cially has been decidedly poor compared
with the figures of the previous four
years when good clothes were hard
to obtain.
Better Clothes Made Today
- - While there has been a trend to
slmplifcation, there has been some
style notifications. all tending to give
men better ready-for-seryice clothes.
Never before in the history Of the busi-
ntss have such clothes approached
the custom-tailored variety so closely.
And as result more men than ever
are wearing bought cothes-just
because the makers have removed all
restrictions as TO fit, etc.
-Fanciful ideas of recent years are
almost entirely discarded. OF course
sor1e makers will continue 10 make
freak models, but they are so far in
the minority as to be almost negligible
in their effect on present day style.
There is the more conventional note
in spring .clothes-both suits and top
coats-a note that is more in harmony
with the cxacting tastes Of good
dressers.
Trend TO Conservatism
As in other years young men will
wear something that is not on the
regular bili.offare. but such clothes
will he only "A passing vogue Even
the radicals" are coming down to
earth and predictions are being made
that in few years the wild ideas in
clothes making viii be entirely dis
carded,
About the only thing that will be
out OF the ordinary is the fourbutton
sack or sem.fitted coat. The lapel OF
this model is narrower than last sea-
son and the top ,button is made use
full instead of being an ornament. The
front OF this coat Is soft. with very
little padding, so thnt when the top
is buttonc1 the coat Shapes itself to
the movements of the wearer.
Another extreme idea which really
had its Inception last fall. but prob
ably will be the vogue among GER
tain class OF the dressers this spring
is the full trousers. by that we mean
trousers that are shaped in equal full
ness at the knees and bottom. Nor
mally there is W three inch dscrep-
ancy at the bottom. This style fol.
lows the English idea to large eX.
tent.
nouble-Ilreasted Popular
The single and douDlebreasted
styles. will continue in popular de-
mand, with the former dominating
the field. The doubebreasted styles.
however. have increased with each
year. because the makers have put
more style into them and have dis
carded the idea OF making a mans
clothes look like a sack as In seasons
past
As rule the coats for young men
will continue to show the full-chested
effects. hut not quite as pronounced
AS In other years. While the skirts
OF the coats will he fairly long the
flare has been discarded almost alto
gether-at least 1t would be as per.
eeptibe as in other years.
Belted styles will be In popular fa.
vor with the wearers OF sport clothes.
Half and three-quarter bets will win
the greatest vote. while the spring
pleats, much like those worn In golf
suits, will have the call. There are
various styles to these. Such clothes
will bc worn a great deal more In the
summer than IN the spring.
Patch Pockets Win Favor
Patch and plain pockets are to he
favored while the cresccnt-shape poe
kets are taking back seat in the call
again and II will he singlerbrensted
II They will be very little in the style
parade.
81 The collarless best will have the way
s OF trimmings except In the sport nov
- city suits.
81 Among the best patterns are those
with stripes. but for business and
general wear fancy silk worsted her
9ingb bones In gray. brown and blue
nixtures will be the vogue as last
tsar. Prominent among the newer
styles are the socaied Mayfower