Show j In New York il NEW YORK YORK The The vast rest majority of or male New Yorkers completely fail fall to live up to their outside reputation reputation reputation rep rep- a. a as swell dressers For every white cane cane- carrying snappily clothed d stroller str on tho the avenue there are ten thousand thousand thou thou- sanc sand wear weanIng marked marke down from fifty dollar ar attire Whereas almost almot every person of the feml feminine nine gender makes maltes desperate desperate des des- efforts at being beins attired In Inthe Inthe the he New York manner even ven though she has to accept pt the cheap copies of ot the Sixth avenue Instalment instalment ment houses her companion Is likely likey likely like- like ly y to furnish a a. glaring contrast The fact tact is that the average male In this city Ity is Ie likely iely to lave have to spend so BO much money keeping keep- keep ing ng his wife sUe well groomed that he hasn't much left for himself And where he Is not married the mere business of paying paving tho the rent and taking the girl friend out nut to lunches dinners or theatres is likely likely likely like like- ly to k keep p him rather lather close to the thera ra ragged ged edge And again whereas the hoin homeliest brat that saunters the sidewalks Is likely to mal make e regular Veils oits to toa toa toa a b beauty auty parlor and even evan have the temerity to intrude herself Into a a. beauty contest only a limited percentage per percentage per per- of or Manhattan males kid L themselves about their good looks look A few days ago a big bathing Lathing re resort resort re- re sort tried to hold a contest for an I I Adonis of the b beach ach and though the entry lists were sere opened opined weeks in advance not a single male of ot I the thousands frequenting the re resort re sort made the slightest effort to lay claim to such a title There was not one entry and the contest Wa Was called off oft The leg legend n of If the swell dresser doubtless orl originated with the ol old I melodrama wherein the city slicker slicker slick er fr was Invariably from New York and was pictured as capturing the simple simpI country lass through hi his I fine tine c clothes oth s and city ways Today the situation Is largely re reo versed The most dapper young youn fellow you Ou pass in the avenue is I very kely to be the visitor fr from m I Flint Mi Mich Mih h. h On the other hand those thos New r Yorkers who wo are roomed groomed are lle Just Justa a bit b better dressed and a bit more confident and at home In their clothes then than the men of ot any other section Those Immaculate first the middle aged men one sees flees at atthe atthe I Ithe the clubs or c coming out of W Wall Wal Wallstreet J I street offices the men one passes ses in the Fifth avenue parade parade they they r have a a. cert certain ln snap and distinction i ito to be found in no other place IM d with stith th these you yon will se Rca pee t some Iome of the most mOot prominent names naine S the city posses possesses famous eH famous writer sri and theatrical critics critics antI and most o of f them In apparel that on could us use for a mirror if hard up GILBERT SWAN Copyright 1927 NEA Service Inc nc |