Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-22
STYLES IN DRESS
FOR MEN REVIEWED

includes Products of 20
Foreign Countries.
What viii the well dressed man wear
this Summer?
London and New York haberdashers
have their own answer to that question:
geography predicts he will wear the
products Of 40 foreign countries, more
or less
eff bright national labels were pasted
on the pieces of masculine wearing ap-
parel wholly or partly of foreign origin.
the well dressed business man would
look like trunk just returned from a
world tour of the best hotels" says q
bulletin Of the National Geographic
Society.
Miles of Braided Straw Imported.
''From top to toe this American, at
tired for the street. is walking eco
nomic league of nations.
''He may declare that his hat came
from Danbury, Conn, his shirt and col
lars from Troy. N. Y; his necktie from
Paterson, N. j.; his coat and trousers
from local tailor, his fountain pen
from Chicago, his money from United
sachusetts, but that isn't half Of 1t.
"Take his hat. for example. 1t may
have been made in Italy, Ecuador or
the Philippines. If it was made in
the United States, the straw probably
came from abroad, from Switzerland,
italy, China or Japan. In one recent
year the United States imported $780,
900 miles of braided straw for hats.
1.-THE leather swaziland probably
came from a New Zealand sheep; the
filmy gauze Of cotton net under the
crown from England.
Silk Brought From Japan.
"His collar, trim, cleaning collar
that resists whiting, probably owes much
Of its stability to long staple cotton
from Egypt. The United sta1es. sns e
the world, imported 34.000,000 pounds
of long staple cotton from the land OF
the Pharaohs in one recent year. Extra
fine shirts also have In their weaves
long staple cotton, possibly grown IN
Arizona or among the lowlands OF the
Carolinas, Georgia and Florlda, or IN
the British West Indies, but more prop
"rhe silk Of the necktie comes from
Japan, of course. but If 1t Is one OF
the cheap variety, sort OF stin, the
kind that looks fine the first time II Is
tied bad the second, terrible the third,
then it is probably loaded with Tin
from Singapore. =.
His coat, his light Summer coat Q!
mohair. is Turkeys ana , dnIla from
turkish goats, jute (burlap) cloth nning
from the Ganges Delta to make tne
cloth hold its shape, and tagua DUBOIS
from Ecuador or Colombia.
vegetable ivory is another name lor
taaua nut. The tree on which IL gIows
a. q variety Of palm with the curious 1us
habit of growing along the ground ioI
about 20 feet and then senolng W
The seeds of this palm are nuts, prob
ably the hardest nuts to crack IN the
world. They are so hard that 2S,Oo0,-
600 pounds of them are shipped 10 the
United States annually TO be cut ana
carved into buttons.
Malaysia Holds Up His Socks.
Upright fasteners, whose Poisneo
MALAY states tin surface was born 70
cieaYn unseen, hold In place his CARERS
fhat AT snugly as long as the rupper
Ia them, also from the Malay STATES
lasts. - ,,,,,,ar
from Malaysia, or Sumatra, or java,
and the end Of the pencil In his pocket
3 tipped with 1t. 49,.
"The entangling alliances OF THIS
Americans feet are indeed wonoer1u
to contemplate. Four conunsnss, ~ ~
united States citizens from pattering
around barefoot. Argentina sends nloes
for leather of both shoes ana peit,
PARAGUAY sends quebracho extract, the
union Of South Africa sends waffle
and the Portuguese colony OF Mozam-
bioue sends chrome ore TO tan the AZ
Rentine leather. India sends lac (snei-
lac) and Brazil carnauba wax TOT the
shoe polish to shine the shoes. que.
woods, it turns ordinary steel saw
teeth, but its high tannin content
makes it profitable as . source OF
tannin fluid to replace the loss OF chest
nut and oak bark which formerly
served American tanning factories.
waffle. a nniYnosa that grows In Natal,
fills the same need, while chrome ng-
ures In q chemical tanning process OF
recent discovery.
Source Of Pocket Contents.
'.Now for q look In the business mans
pocket. That fountain pen with
bright case Of casein-where did 1t come
from? From q cow-not an American
cow, in all probability, but an Argen-
tine cow because IN Argentina tnere
Is a smaller demand for milk for food
than in the United States. Casein for
pens and similar objects Is solidtied
milk. The gold of the pen point may
be American-or 1t may be South Afri-
can. The very point Of the pen, the
part he writes with, Is not gold, but
Iridium, most likely from the platinum
mines Of Soviet Russia's Ural Noun
tains.
"The yellow pencil in the coat pocket
has o lead Of American or Mexican
graphite, and paint colored by Rho
desian chrome yellow, bound by Amer
lean or Argentinian linseed oil, and
provided with q durable surface Of lac
from India perhaps, or tung oil from
far I'D the Yangtze in China, or kaurt
gum from New Zealand boys.
Paper of his pocket memo pad may
be an-American-more probably 1t Is
Canadian. Cigarettes are doubtless OF
American tobacco with q pinch Of Turk
tsh tobacco from Greek Macedonia, too,
it may be, and wrapped in cigarette
paper from France. And the good
American money in his wallet and his
pocket, an American product, surely!
But no, the green Of the greenback Is
chrome green made from Rhodesia or
Mozambique chrome. He may shun
Canadian dime, but never q Canadian
nickel, for nearly all our nickels are
Canadian. The chief United States
contributions to nickel are the Indian
and the buffalo"