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Show MEN'S CLOTHES I OF AMPLE FIT Merchant Tailors Decree Garments That Drape About the Figure PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3. Men's clothes thi-- e.ii should" be cut on amplo lines and have a soft appearance appear-ance so tnat they will drane about the figure and not fit too closely, it was set forth in the report of the fashion committee, adopted Thursday by the convention of the National Association of .Merchant Tailors of America l-m business wear, sack suit-?, with two or three buttons, will predominate, the committee stated. Th report' said that coats should be cut fuller through the shoulders iiol dust and that trousers should be of ample Blse through the hips and liberal width at the knee and bottom. P.xcept for country wear, trousers but- j toms should be plain instead of cuffed Wai8t-COata should be cut with a liberal lib-eral opening at the front, ample over the chest, well fitted to the figure at the watstlim-. straight across the bottom bot-tom and fashioned with much smaller smal-ler points than last year Declaring that it was not only bad form, but ' shows a lack of respect fi r the ladies." the committee said it was "firmly opposed to the jrim ing tendency ten-dency among men" to use the iux do I jacket for formal evening wear. i A resolution was adopted providing for the establishment of a credit system sys-tem whereby "beats' in one city would be reported to all members of I other cities. |