| Show Why Cant Can't We Have Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfort Comfort- able Sensible Clothes Yes Im I'm a n. cynic But I do have my rational moments Seldom however am I blessed with their presence in the morning while Im I'm dressing Then I am almost al always irritable impatient resentful resent resent- ful One morning recently I did become rational enough to sit calmly down and analyze my condition condition condition con con- and lo to and behold I discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered that it was all due to my clothes They were ere all wrong when hen they could so easily have been right They were inconvenient uncomfortable bothersome the psychological effect of which was to start me off each day in a abad abad abad bad mood This condition could be and should be corrected I rea rea- The careless thoughtless thought thought- less makers of the various garments garments garments gar gar- ments were to blame it seemed to tome tome tome me and I mentally sentenced them to purgatory for their crimes When I slip into my robe after arising seldom am I fortunate enough to promptly get hold of the sash that is supposed to be tied about the waist When after after after af- af ter going through lall all kinds of aggravating contortions I am finally successful in reaching one tasselled end meanwhile sliding toward the bathroom I find that the other elusive extremity is tucked into a pocket or dragging on the floor Then after the thing is ultimately adjusted and tied into an effeminate bow knot I discover the loose and superfluous ous ends floating serenely in the wash bowl with the shaving brush The biting into of a tooth brush serves as a temporary vent for formy formy formy my anger The task of shaving over the robe is discarded and on goes the 7 THE E STYLE BLACK BOARD t skirts in Th off university so id ors colors n hs but co S 3 0 oils UJ with h b 2 Buttons to button button- pome n. collar cof f v i 1 1 0 S 1 1 es color lored cL V i n or r tS lp 0 0 t j i o j il i fA 4 i h Mt I e ItS o Y f b NL Courtesy Hart Schaffner g Marx Co underwear The shorts are short indeed three indeed three inches too short from crotch to waist And they are almost perfectly straight straight- the same size in the waist as around the hips No room for the hips and too much room for the waist Who could possibly wear such things What sort of a amodel amodel amodel model if any were they ever made over over Certainly nothing that approximated the normal human human human hu hu- hu- hu man form Button the top button only and they drop to th the floor Button the lower buttons and and and- why it cant can't be done the done the fronts dont don't meet nuisance No snugness where it belongs belongs- well up around the waist above the hips No room whatever where there should be an a abundance abundance und und- ance of it about it-about about the hips The knitted shirt Athletic they call it Why Athletic implies activity Activity creates natural perspiration The knitted undershirt undershirt under under- shirt should absorb the perspiration tion tion keeping it from the top shirt Does this kind of knitted underwear do that Well perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps as far as it goes but it doesn't go half far enough Its all cut away Theres There's nothing to it Over the very part of the body where perspiration exudes the freest freest freest-at at the sides under the arms and across the shoulders there is nothing The body and its come in direct contact with the top shirt soaking it soiling g it making it it able when the jacket is removed Absorbing the perspiration from the body tends to keep the body cooler and cleaner The ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous lous cutaway shirt allows the beads to trickle down from the neck to the waist except that which the top sh shirt rt catches So that actually the skimpy called so-called athletic shirt makes the wearer hotter more uncomfortable defeats defeats defeats de de- de- de feats it purpose and is therefore no good N Now ow we come to the trousers Lets Let's see what's the matter with them A plenty Like the shorts they are entirely too short snort from to waist When they're comfortable in the crotch the waist does not come up an anything thing jUke high enough on the body barely over the hip bones They drag on the side hip bones and cut in the crotch and they are too tight around the hips which not only makes them uncomfortable but prevents them from hanging properly throwing the lower leg front against the calf and away away from the heels There is altogether too little cloth in tJi the trousers The waist is cut too low hips too small crotch to waist too short Common faults all of these are and easy to correct The sketches illustrate how in each case First take the robe The belt should be stitched on the back as shown permitting sufficient by means of pleats to insure ease and con comfort ort across the shoulders and hips That will aso insure the belts belt's staying permanently in place always ready for use This belt should be just long enough to lap slightly in front and fasten with buttons and buttonhole One is sufficient to hold it properly though it may have as many as three buttons to make it adjustable adjustable adjustable adjust adjust- able in girth The belt insures a snug fit at the waist is masculine masculine masculine line in appearance and best of all convenient and out of the way with no superfluous ends dangling down making a nuisance of them them- selves Why cannot robe manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- f make robes with that kind of a belt The remedy for short shorts is isto isto isto to make them longer longer from crotch to waist not longer legs a higher waist and wider waistband and an abundance of cloth over the hips producing such fullness that almost no part of the garment touches the the body except the wide snug waistband This waistband should come al almost almost almost al- al most entirely above the hip Hones bones well up around the smallest part of the stomach just below ow the bottom rib Why do most shorts have such an abundance of cloth in the waist and not half enough about the hips A Are re manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers afraid to put it in tHe right place or dont don't they know how now 1 What is the reasonable argument argument argument ment in favor of the cutout at athletic athletic ath ath- letic undershirt Will somebody explain what advantages it has or oris oris or oris is supposed to have for the wearer wear wear- er Even for wear in the hottest weather when its function is supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be th the absorption of perspiration perspiration perspiration per per- compare it with the higher cut ut shirt illustrated ared Which is the themore more sensible Which Which- is r I the more likely to keep the top or outer shirt dry and clean If keeping the top shirt and the and the body clean and cool by the absorption of perspiration is its primary function function function tion which may be calculated to todo todo todo do that trick better AIr ATT right then hen why dont don't the underwear manufacturers make underskirts undershirts that way And finally the trousers The remedy here is about the same as asin asin asin in the case of the shorts shorts more more cloth More cloth about the hips both in width and length Higher waists bringing the belt well above the hip bones up to that part where the body is smallest in circumference the natural waist line Then plenty of room from there down to the crotch cr so there can be no binding or pulling pulsing but simple east comport looseness looseness- also and looseness over the hips and upper thighs Trousers Trous Trous- ers in which such ordinary common com com- mon com mon sense ideas have been incorporated incorporated in incorporated in- in cannot but feel perfectly perfect perfect- ly comfortable and hang free and clear at all positions of tIle tHe wear wear- er Is there any n ial reason reason reason rea rea- son why they sh should uld continually be made otherwise Ah yes that's right right men men who have oil nIl their apparel made to order do have their things made just this way But Im I'm not talking talking talking talk talk- ing about to order stu stuff f Im I'm talking about ready-made ready such as the vast majority of us have t to wear wear vear Must the fact act alone that its it's ready made forever be the excuse excuse excuse ex ex- cuse the apology for making it wrong I am going to resort to made to order made order to get what I want and what Im I'm sure Tots of others would like to have But should everyone else have to do that too Mens Men's Mens Men's Wear |
