Evening star., 1925-10-18

/INHE young Engnshman ol
today not only wears
strange oxford trousers
i which would provide his
sister with four skirts, but
he cultivates wasplike waist. He
seems to have lost all sense of occa.
sion"
So speaks the London Observer.
oxford bags are already 80 inches
wide at the knee, where IS inches was
considered proper says the raris
Liberte. ''In the camp of advanced
dressers 80 inches is exceeded. With
a little more they will approximate
the divided skirt-which is probably
what the ma asculinists are after"
Yet American college boys, who
took wide pants home on the boat,
heard nothing of masculinism at the
tailor's. They supposed that they
We're buying simply wide pants. Mas
culinism, which IL not what II sounds
like. results from feminism in after
war hardships of men in Europe.
Feminism." says Henry V. &. de
Boyde, .'is the social revindication of
women, who claim the right to do
everything that men have been doing.
There are woman doctors. lawyers,
astronomers, mayors and policemen.
Observe the hen" saws Henry. Men
have been dressing and hustlinG like
hens, and women loaf1ng and dress
ing up like roosters. Womep's good
sense wants to transpose things back.
That's feminism."
The advanced dressers Of Paris and
London have invented masculinism.
They are not all young men. Bald
heads. like the followers Of HoEue-
I.ampenio. rally in number. Let us
do something while we cam" saws
Ferdinand. whose whiskers are turn
ing white.
"Masculinism." he says. 'is the
right of men to wear pants as wide
as women's skirts, and wider, II they
want to, and Of any color. 1t is the
right to be wide and gorgeous, like
the other males of creation The
rooster and the lion are gorgeous, and
they take life easy. We cant take
life easy without dressing up. Men
always dressed up until recent times
Women appreciate the fact-that Is
why they are SO dscontented now
They want us TO resume our gorgeous.
ness!"
All women are bobbing their hair.
1t Is q general movement-an exam
pie and invitation for men to let their
hair grow long, says Henry de Boyde,
while women go under the clippers.
We men ought to have frizettes and
little tortoise shell combs with incrus.
tations"
Such of us who are bald" SAYS
Ferdinand. will wear wigs OF fancy
shades, and lady Wallets will curl them
for us. Sack suits will no longer hide
our forms.
What's the matter with little satin
Jackets f1aring in basaues at the
hipso"
Masculinism has got it all laid out.
Men will wear colors They will
use silks. satins and fancy kasha-
all men who want to do so.
Times change" says de Boyde,
and women are showing us the way
Did not 324 young women Of Long
Beach, Calf, parade the streets in
one piece bathing shorts? In Paris
alone there are 465 baldheads and
gray-whiskered men Of fashion ready
to come out in the silk brocade ma
terials which they already use at
home in Persian robes"'
1t seems that they are manly robes,
and not mere dressing gowns or pa
jana jackets. Chosen flowered pat
terms cost dearer than any womans
dress. Their rich colors and soft
texture tempt any man with whis
kers to stay In them all day.
Snal not neSltate 10 ride out IN
a purple-and-gold coat" llogue-Lam
perie is credited with saying.
Henry smiled indulgently.
They are game he said. "but
there is more. There is a scheme, a
plan. The most advanced dressers are
all in 1t. Common men will be led
by easy stages. Did you ever think
of Solomon in all his glory? Solomon
did not wear pants!"
mo pants?" / exclaimed, aghast.
why pants?" replied de Boyde.
''They have been the bane of men.
We have been at a disadvantage ever
since we put them on. Did Caesar
wear pants? Did Charlemagne wear
pants? Men will never get their
proper place back in the world so
long as they wear pants. Pants, at
this moment. are good for just one
thing-to lead to something better.
Wide pants will do it,
Everybody has heard of them"
muttered.
They are called oxford bags" he
said. but they don't bag at the
knee! When the man in the street
discovers the fact and plunses for
wide pants we advanced dressers will
be ready for him. We shall crease
our Oxford bags down the Sides"