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C OA OP BUT nt ILL 5 HAVE TO MAC ux v Au reRA 1115 6 roar 1 sr LAT I- I a- a r Aft y Ti 1 S L gO j CAti 4 S I vU c c L t I I Outside Cash Pockets Eliminated Eliminated as They Are No Longer Needed By Mrs Sol Lake For a long time women have been Deen told that because of tho the shortage of ot otwool wool they must econom economize z in the the material material ma- ma ma ma- used for their gowns and coats Some 0 of o us have accepted the idea of sartorial retrenchment et enthusiastically too too enthusiastically the moralists sn say No one will deny that we have gone just as far fai in the matter of cloth economy economy economy econ econ- omy as our self respect will tale take us usand usand us- us usand and some of us further Therefore we ie e ha have ve thought that It It was about time that the other fellow should feel the pinch of war in his at attire attire at- at t I tire as well as his income tax The National Association of Clothing I Designers appreciating this need for reform has has' adopted resolutions re pledgIng ing lag its members to support the govI government government gov gov- In the tile campaign for tor cloth I economy Some time ago the council for tor national national na na- na- na I defense requested designers rs of mens men's clothes to eliminate belts pleats and patch pockets from rota their designs I Now according to dispatches re received received received re- re in Salt Lake further further economies economies in m cloth are to be ruthlessly carried out Henceforth Henceforth and and for tor the duration dUlL of ot the war war no no man ma may wear a yoke other than thais that of ot matrimony matrImony-as as a coat with a yoke yole requires more labor than one without And there shall be beno beno beno no more pleats No 0 patch l packets no collars on waistcoats no fancy flaps no outside cash pockets pockets bl news for light fingered gentry And there shall be no more double-breasted double coats Overcoats Ove will be shorter and less voluminous five voluminous five Inches will t be 00 bethe e ethe the approved length And the tails o of the tho evening coat areto are areto areto to be docked and will measure thirty thirty- eight Instead eight instead of or forty inches Do not i this information lightly The Tho Na- Na t c I A L 13 ELLoW f I WIDE I i I II I NO V V r I I Association of ot Clothing Designers Design DesIgn- i I ers controls the spending of I Men at nt the recent convention 1 represented represented rep rep- resented Every AmerIcan S city from Bangor to Spokane ane was rep rep- rep rep-I 1 I resented in its councils The pres- pres dent dent Irving I. I Frankel Franlel Is from pres-j pres Cincinnati Cin Cm- I I the first vice president Harry I J. J Hosch I from Newark the second I I vice l president J. J F. F Schafer is from I Milwaukee and the treasurer Edgar I A. A Laws Is from Baltimore I i There is is no hamlet so remote that the decrees of ot the clothing designers will not penetrate it In fact for the tho benefit of remote hamlets the convention convention convention conven conven- I tion has decided decided- that positively no nomore nomore nomore more top peg trousers will be made The cities have ave not been wearing peg tops for many years but there are arc still distant villages where they are considered the height of elegance Well even In Tapioca Wyo Vo they wont won't wear peg top trousers anymore any anymore more and anti Elko Nev youths will no noO wear the Norfolk jacket and Hugo Colo Cob will have to do without flaps on on Its pockets The correct afternoon dress will re remain remain remain re- re j main as It has haR been foe foi several years veirs I I I-a I a a cutaway coat of d dark rk material L with wIto or without braid worn with gray gra r trousers The rhe frock coat will be worn won I only by congressmen and anti members 5 I of ot Tammany Hall said the member r of the convention Men jUen are wearing the tie Tuxedo coa coat t I much less than they did More an and S Smore more of at them are realizing realizing- that it I lt Is SI never correct where where- women are arc pres- pres ent I 0 Of course the dinner ditner coat is really a amore amoro at more moro economical garment than th the e evening coat and it might be an of ef- ef thrift measure to make it correct correct cor- cor for tor all evening functions At an any i rate why would it not be he a n war economy econ econ- I amy omy to make malte tho the evel coat vit with Ii detachable a which could coull be but but- toned on when the occasion calls for a full evening ng dress Ve We hear so much about the necessity necessity sity city of a dress for all occasions for a r women that thai it i is pOl possible s l. le there ma may it be an equal need for an occasions all 5 I costume for men Think of all th the e broadcloth that would be saved if th the thel el evening coat could be reduced to it its 5 essential feature There would be b et etC I 1 I also a great saving in tailors' tailors bills C I I because the swallowtail is the Oll only I part of ot an evening coat that crumples crumple is I after a party and I It could bo ho detached detached de do I- I g would be pressed for foy only Ia a fraction of ot what it costs to have th the el whole coat i I Isome Some coats for men show the mill mill- I tary shoulder that is is' is with the sea seam seamon seamon n on the back of the sh shoulder However However How How- t ever If a a. man really wants to look loo kj military there is only one way to d dL do 0 ft n. and that is isto tc to enlist I I |