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Show - j i Straight-front coat becoming be-coming popular among men of wealth A S the better dressed men of 1 the larger cities begin to ' appear in their fall suits, the straight-front coat is seen with I increasing frequency. The st3'le analysis bureau of Hart Schaftner& Marx reported seeing straight-front coats worn for the first time at the United Hunt Club autumn meet at Belmont Bel-mont Park last November. At that time only a very few were seen, but a recent analysis on the floor of the New York stflck exchange showed fourteen four-teen per cent of the men wearing wear-ing straight-front coats, and they are also observed in numbers num-bers at Newport and Southampton, Southamp-ton, Long Island. This shows" how rapidly the style has developed among men of wealth and fashion men of mature years and established position. The importance of style in clothing is increasing. There is no doubt of this. As we have pointed out different types of men are following different slyle trends. The type of man that wears the straight-front coat will not give any consideration consid-eration whatsoever to the short twenty-eight inch one and fe ''---iiv-!'-';sih -"fell WWm Pi I I to two button coat which are he-coming he-coming more and more popular every day with what we call the "Broadway Type" of young man. Any observer in style can find in the theatrical district of New York that the majority of young men are today wearing the shorter coats. |