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Show Man's Dresi tu San Francisco. The genuine "down east" or Canadian visitor who arrives in San Francisco during dur-ing the winter season greatly helps to increase in-crease the diversity iu dress which one notes iu San Francisco. He often conies equipped in fur lined raiment, and when the clouds grow heavy and the wind begins be-gins to come iu pull's from the south he looms up like a survivor of an Arctic expedition. ex-pedition. His ponderous coat with Its fur collarenvekiping bis ears looks strange beside tho light summer overcoats or the still thinner cutaway coats made light and airy by white neckties and plug bats. The newly arrived owner of the fur lined overcoat, however, rarely sticks long to his old love, and is soon found airing his figure without any overcoat at all or stalking along with a gossamer garment thrown back to display his light necktie and other summery raiment. The Visitor from the Orient, If he be of ; a foppish turn, contributes more than his share toward tbo contrasts in dress. He is generally of a "horsey" turn and delights de-lights to stroll through the streets on his way to a livery stable remarkable In a hunting suit, tight fitting "cords" and top boots and spurs. An Oriental tourist who struck the town not long since, railed out from the Palace hotel one chilly afternoon in a pair of canary colored pantaloons, pan-taloons, patent leather shoes with Btriped cloth tops, a blue vest with polka dots and a claret colored velvet coat. The whole rig was surmounted by a pith helmet of the kind worn in tropical countries. The gamins ol San Francisco are too much accustomed to sharp contrasts in dress to be easily excited, but this Shanghai fashion fash-ion plate was too much for their equanimity. equa-nimity. By the time they had presented their compliments in the shape of a wheelbarrow wheel-barrow full of cobble stones, the Shanghai masher reached his hotel through a dozen back streets and was seen no more in a velvet coat on a cold winter's day. San Francisco Chronicle. |