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Show NyiEN'S ERRORS IN DRESS. A Young Woroa'i of Observation Says That Sacli Solecisms Are Common. "It is .surprising, " said a young woman wo-man of observation, "how near some of you men fellows come to being properly dressed and don't quite get there. I've heard a good deal of talk and read a good deal of writing about the fine art of dressing well, but my idea is that it's just a question of the preservation of the entities. It's just like apple sauce with roast pork and currant jelly with canvasback duck the proper thing goes i with the proper thing. Yet a man may be letter perfect in his condiments, or may have a fit at seeing a water color in a velvet frame, and still wear a silk hat and a sack coat. Oh, yon needn't laugh. I've seen it, not only on Broadway Broad-way on a Saturday night, but I have seen it on Fifth avenue on a Sunday morning. morn-ing. Yes, and worse than that. I saw one young fellow going to church with two swell girls, he wearing a black silk hat and a brown sack suit. . Now, do you know I call that impious. "There are two other sins of attire that men are often guilty of one a sin of commission, wearing an overcoat with a straw hat, and the other a sin of omission, wearing an overcoat and no gloves. These things are done all the time in their season, and yet yon sinners sin-ners in costume think ft a good joke to 6ee a woman in white gloves and a mackintosh and so it is. "There's another thing yon men get woefully mixed np over spats and gaiters. gai-ters. Any fool girl knows that the gaiter is used for warmth, and therefore is a part of a winter costume, while the spat was designed as an article for summer sum-mer attire to keep the bottom of the light trousers from being soiled by black shoes. It is quite as awful a solecism to wear spats with dark trousers as it is to wear a gaiter over a tan shoe, yet both are committed constantly here in New York, and by men who ought to be ashamed of themselves for not knowing or not doing better. "And, talking of tan shoes, you never will convince me that it's either correct or convenient to wear tan shoes in winter win-ter or in storrny weather. That's the time for rubbers, and goloshes over tan 6hoes are an incongruity that gives me the horrors. It's the same sort of debased de-based taste that leads a man to peril his soft palate by using a cigar holder, or that leads him to outrage decency by sticking a cravat pin in a sailor's knot. And don't think for one instant that all the-rest of us don't observe these things just as I do. If a man's dress is trig and trim from top to toe we admire him, even if he's as homely as sin that is, ' as sin is supposed to be but if he mixes the seasons or falls down in the nicer details of completeness we have our little sneer at him after he's gone, even though he's as good looking as you'd like to be. ' '-New York Sun. |