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Show MAKING CANES TO ORDER. Fashions Change In This as In All Things Else. "Fashions change In canes, as they do In everything else," said a manufacturer manu-facturer who knows all about the fashlonablo trade. "Last year our customers cus-tomers were calling for rough wood In its natural state, without any ornamentation. orna-mentation. They wanted canes made almost as thin nnd as light as whan-gees. whan-gees. So many cheap Imitations had been made of silver-mounted smooth-wood smooth-wood canes that men of fashion would not look nt them. This year we are returning to silver mounts, but In designs de-signs made to order that It will be almost out of tho question for Importers Im-porters of cheap German silver to Imitate. Imi-tate. In umbrellas tho largo handles of rough wood still hold favor with tho men. It Is no longfr fashionable to decorato them with Initials. A mnn likes an umbrella that he can pick out at sight from a bunch of others at his club or elsewhere. Somo men will havo tho crooked handle so that thoy can hang their umbrellas on a hook in a hat rack, and wo havo to manufacture manu-facture a few of them to meet tho demands of the trade. Womon always go In for something odd, and usually expensive." |
