, 1922-04-07

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Standardization of style, simplicity
OF modelling and n nearer approach
10 the lines that mark.d mems cloth
ing OF several years ago will feature
the spring and. summer displays this
year.
Conditions IN the clothing industry
are moro settled than they have been
since 1914. Factories are running at
top speed, wherever there hasn't been
the hurry-worry OF other years. AS n
result clothes have been made much
better; fabrics have improved and
more attention has been paid to style.
Like hundreds OF other industries
tho clothing game is gradually get
ting back to normally. The last two
years have been hard ones for almost
every one concerned and tho showing
financially has beer decidedly poor
compared with the figures of the pre-
vious o. years when good clothes
were ard TO obtain.
Better Clothes iIade Today.
While there has been a trend to
simplification, there has been some
style notifications. all tending to give
men better ready-for-service clohtes.
Never before in the history of the
business have such clothes approach
ed tho custom-tailored variety SO
closely. And as a result more men
than over are wearing bought"
clothes-just because the makers
have removed all restrictions as to fit,
etc.
Fanciful ideas of recent years are
almost entirely discarded. OF course
some makers will continue to make
freak models. but they are so far in
the minority as to be almost negligi-
BILE in their effect on present day
style. There is the more convention
al note in spring clothes-both suits
and topcoats-a tote tia is more in
harmony with the exacting tastes of
good dressers.
Trend TO Conservatism.
AS in other years young men will
wear something that is not on the
regular bill-of-fare, but such clothes
viii be only a passing vogue. Even
the radicals are coming down to
earth IND predictions are being made
that in a few years the wild ideas in
clothes making will be entirely dis.
carded.
About the only thing tina will be
out OF the ordinary Is the four-button
sack or semi-fitted pat The lapel of
this model IS o tina last sea.
son and Tho top button is made use
full instead OF being an The
front on this o is soft. with every
little padding, s o that when the ton
is buttoned the oat shapes itself to
the movement of tho wearer.
Another extreme idea which really
had its inception las fall, but prob
ably will be the vogue among a 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 a ~t.nee-inch discrep-
ancy at the bottom. This style fol
lows the English idea to a large ex-
tent
Doubled Breasted Popular
The single and double-breasted
styles win continue in popular de
mand, with the former dominating
h field The double-breasted styles,
however, nav increased with each
yea& 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 a rule the coast for young men
viii continue to show the ~full-chested
effects. but not quito as pronounced
as in other years. While the skirts
of the coats will be fairly long the
flare has been discarded almost alto
gether-at least it would be as per-
ceptible as in other years.
Belted styles will be in popular IA
vor with the wearers OF sport clothes.
Half and three-quarter belts will win
the greatest vote, while the spring
pleats, much like those worn in golf
suits, win have the call There are
various styles to these. Such clothes
will be worn a great desl more in the
summer than in the spring.
Patch Pockets Win Favor.
Patch and plain pockets are to be
favored while the crescent-shape
pockets are taking a back seat in the
call again and it will be ~singIe-hreast-
ed They will be very little in the
style parade.
The collarless vest will i've the
way of trimmings except in the sport
or novelty suits.
Among the best patterns are those
with stripes. but for business and gen
erai wear fancy silk worsted herrig-
bones in gray. brown and blue mix
lures will be tho vogue as last year.
Prominent among tho newer styles
are the so-called Mayflower stripes in
shades OF gray, oxford, blue and
brown. They are made Of pi1ra worst