Show 3Ieus Spring Fashions This seasoii the changes in the fashions of mens apparel will be even less marked thanusual Say what you will next to his hat his boots and his cravat the garment which nwst helps or mars a I mans appearance is his trousers We know very well that the highest triumph of the tailors art is a perfectly fitting coat No bungler can make that but the cutting and fitting must be intrusted to a thorough artist and one of long and varied experience Nor do we deny that it is a pleasure to contemplate such a coat a delight to wear it and a moral support in the midst of trials to have it on But however perfect the coat no man can be called well dressed unless his trousers have the fit and the hang which can only be given to them by a master in their manufacture who handles a stuff which is exactly adapted to the purpose The coat too is not subject to the strains from wear which soon reveal the unskillful unskill-ful tailor and betray defects of material The undiscriminating observer may be deceived as to the coat but nobody is unmindful un-mindful of wretchedly fitting trousers with a tendency to bag at the knees Trousers now under construction by the tailors of artistic ability are just about as they were last year that is they preserve pre-serve the golden mean between tight and loose and the disposition is to make them of checked material not obtrusive but with the pattern simply indicated As to coats there is really nothing new to say I They are as they have been for two years with the slightest of modifications Hats are more altered for the hatters seem to I think that their trade requires that the variety shall be great enough from year to year to compel men to buy a new hat even before the old one is worn out Modest Mod-est and quiet colors lire the things in cravats cra-vats and scarfs which should always be chosen with the discretion of an artist for their importance to dress is not to be overestimated No jewels or only the simplest are worn |