MEN'S EXTRAVAGANCE IN DRESS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 263, 30 July 1908, Page 5

MEN'S EXTRAVAGANCE IN DRESS.

■What does the. averago man spend per ■■ year on clothes? ." Abdut £20"'is tho answer usually given to such a query, and no ■ doubt with a, couple of suits, two hats, a - fey," shifts : and collars,',a tievor two, and , i>o.me singlets and socks, a man will find that ho can bo comfortably, dressed on that sum. -/'But iii America the question of dress bills is being bandied about just' how. These arc. considered the. best-dressed'men'in tho ■ United States: George J. Gould, the Vandor- . bilts, Alfred and William James Hazen Hyde, Cjiarles Dana. Gibson, . Alexander. vati .■■. Rensselaer, .General Edward de V. Morrell, and A. J; Drexel Middle. .' ■ Thomas W.-, Lawsoii,: tho "frenzied finance" man,; and a' noted "dude.," was inter- • viewed ;on the subject' of his clothes, and, ... remarked:—. .■'-• ■■•■"■ " I have made for mo, each year 52 complete suits of clothing, one for each week '•■■'.'in tho year; 12 evening suits, one for each ' month.ih.tlic year; and.an ovbrcoat for cach /week -in 'the "year,- .cacli with .hats, boots, gloves', a,t.i underclothing to match. / ) " For "thirty, years I have-had my hosiery nnu umiorclothing hand-embroidered .with the week arid tho'month: day,;'to cover the entire season." ' /', , ■■■'.■ Mr. John Parson, of Oak Park, is Chicago's champion in dress His partisans, it is said, " rejoico in donning ear-muffs -when'"they, come withinhearing distance; of his raiment." ' -■'' I ''.

A rfeivCT'put forward, for tho alleged fact that the "dancing man" does not dance is that matters are niado too easy for. him. In short, he' Wants to see the chaperon revived, and with her those' rather stiffcr: ballroom'manners which! bavoVlong been ruled oiif. ;• And the dancing man is not alone, for tlier j, Arc many other directions in which our pl;wrarc« ;and 'arcar-rocnts .have become disappointingly- ecsy.—"Ladies'- Pictorial."