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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, ArRIL 8, 1900.
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Our dye house is one of the most complete
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are the best that money can hire. This enables
us to turn out work that will compare favorably
with that done in the large cities of the east.
Besides the cleaning and dyeing of
all kinds of wearing apparel, we do laca
curtains, draperies, portiers, table cov
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anything that requires care and skill in
handling. All work guaranteed first
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- When you want dependable cleaning
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EASTERN STYLES FOR HEX
Borne Chantroa in Oat that Come with the
New BeAion.
GREY AND BLUE THE LEADING COLORS
Coat Collars Will II Shorter and
Broader, Padding Will He Less
and Yrati Will liar
,, , Blading.
Man laughs at woman as she stands ankle
deep In March snow purveying the summer
muslin displayed In the department store
window, but down In his heart he acknowl
edge that he, too, with spring; days In
sight, turns Ma thought to sartorial har
bingers, and he scoffs only from habit and
custom. The well dressed man prinks even
as docs the well dressed woman. She only
prinks more because she has more to prink
with. In these days one finds the man
Angering the fabrics on the tailor's tables
or perusing the style book of the ready-to-wear
house, for In clothes as In business
the prudent and successful man looks
ahead and takes sartorial time by the
collar.
Styles this season are to be many yet
diversified. The only taste that will not he
considered will be the bad taste. Over
coats, evening drts, day dress, half dress.
business wear, loui.ge or sporting habili
ments, all will show varying points of style
to meet the varied wishes of those whQ
wear them. Beautr and novelty will be
the distinguishing features In an lines
There will be three marked changes In
coats for the spring and summer of 1904.
The chief of these chants w!il be shown
In the collar, which will be shorter and
broader opposite the end of the crease.
The 190 shoulder will not only be slightly
narrower, but will follow more closely
than heretofore the curves of the human
shoulder. Some tailors are putting springs
In shoulders Instead of padding. The
spring serves the same purpose as the
padding, but Is not so uncomfortable In
warm , weather, and though It gives to
pressure It keeps Its shape. Following the
shoulder conformation It will have the
effect of giving the sleeves a more decided
curve at the Inside of the elbow than has
been apparent for many years.
The side seams of the double breastel
frock coat will be much less curved than
last season and the peak of the lapels will
be more pronounced. The skirts will have
a decidedly liberal bell. The cutaway
frock will likewise have stralghter sld4
seams and the skirts will , slope awar
more than heretofore. The skirts will
round Into the bottom more strikingly and
In many patterns will close from one to
two Inches lower.
Sack coats of all kinds will be markedly
shorter and will be fuller at the bottom.
They will set closer to the waist also.
Waistcoats wilt open lower and the long
cutaway points of the preceding year will
be chopped off a bit. The waistcoat, ex
cept in departures from what is the ap
proved fashion, will not show above the
coat opening. A more shapely leg Is to
be given to trousers and creases will not
be defined so sharply.
The Leading Fabrics.
Gray, which forged to the front as the
leading color In the spring of 1906, . still
retains its grip on the top round, but blue
will share in the most pronounced popular
ity this season and, will In a measure re
gain the laurels It lost last year. Those who
affeat the London fashions will select
browns and greens In soft tones.
Worsteds both In dressy and negligee
weaves, will be the favored suitings of the
season so far as materials go. Cheviots,
however, will have a rogue for business
wear, traveling, out-door life and lounging
and blue serges In plain twills and plain
or fancy weaves will be among the much
worn fabrics. Fancy suitings will be maJa
up principally in plain mixtures, with en
livening weaves to relieve the monotone.
Stripes, narrow and broad, will not be
amiss and heavy plaids, while they will be
less In evidence than heretofore, .will still
find favor with many well dressed men.
Small checks, the tailors expect, will grow
in favor. Flannels are going to be worn
for business In the heart of midsummer
more than ever. The days when they were
restricted to the tennis courts are over.
Fancy waistcoats are still on the top
wave of popularity and this season's pat
terns and colorings will present an even
greater variety than last season.
The fabric- field for overcoats will be
greatly enlarged. Not only the staple
overcoating fabrics will be used, but almost
every material used for suits will be drawn
on. Gray worsteds In plain, twills and
herringbones, small fancy weaves, worsted
cheviots and cheviots will be among the
most widely worn overcoating fabrics,
tries In Overeoats.
For more than fifty years, save for two
or three Intervals of a season or two each,
the Chesterfield overcoat has been the lead
ing style for general wear, and this spring
finds It more firmly Intrenched In favor
than ever. The early spring models show
an Inclination to return to the style of a
half century, when the fathers of the
present generation were beaus In the close
fit at the waist and the amplitude of he
skirt. The roll of this Chesterfield will be
long and wide, with either a peaked or
down slanted lapel. The collar will be
self covered, and the roil will be silk faced.
A proper length will be eight Inches mora
than half the wearer's height
The covert coat In these days Is hardly
distinguishable by the name that formerly
stood for such a distinctive garment. More
than ever this season the covert coat has
become an abbreviated Chesterfield. Its
roll, waist shape and finish will be like
those of the Chesterfield. Only in Its
length will It dlfTer materially from Its
more popular brother. It will be from
thirty-six to thirty-seven Inches long.
The Newmarket and paletot will divide
the honors for dress occasions. Both will
be the same In the back as the dress frock
coat, either without a center seam or with
the skirt opening continuous with the
center seam. The Newmarket will have
peaked lapels, broad at the top and chest
and tapering to a finished width of
two Inches at the bottom. The front
will close with two buttons from Ave to
six Inches apart, there being only one but
ton hole in each lapel above the closing.
The roll, a very long one, will be self faced.
The collar may be of self material or of
velvet, and the hip pocket flaps may fall
either from the waist seam or be set below
It diagonally or straight across, as the
fancy of the wearer may dictate.
The paletot will be of practically the same
cut. Both Newmarket and paletot will
range from nineteen and one-fourth Inches
in waist length and from furty-slx to fifty
Inches In full length for a man of average
height. The nir'erlals may be any that
Is proper to wear wliU day dress.
Traveling; Overt-oats.
The tourist's ulster and the touiist'a over
sack are prominent among the overcoats
suited for traveling abroad or at home.
The ulster will be a fly front, three-seam
oversack, about one-third shaped to the
waist, where It will be strapped from side
seam to side seam, and below which the
seams will be underplaited. The side seams
will extend to the shoulder seams, reaching
them about two Inches from the armhole,
where they will b met with a full front
seam, below which It will b underplaited,
and through which will be the opening to
the tip pocket that will extend to the level
of the track. Jt-tm, patched en the inside-
The length will be from forty-eight to fifty
Inches for a man of average height.
The oversack will be long and nearly a
straight hanging box, with a long center
rent. The roll will be a medium long and
heavy peaked lapel, with a collar tab,
patched on, and flopped hip pockets and
sleeves with weather straps.
Kvenlna Dress.
Evening dress, to all Intents and purposes.
Is as It was last fall. In coats, the peaked
lapel style will be the best form. The one
piece In front will remain In favor. While
a double-breasted waistcoat will not violate
the canons of good taste, the single-breasted
style will continue, as of late, to be worn
almost by everyone. In trousers there will
be a slight tendency toward narrower legs.
For negligee dress or dinner coat the
peaked lapel all silk mil Tuxedo will be the
prevailing fashion. The shawl roll will be
worn a trifle more than It wns last season,
however. The waistcoat may be made from
the silk used for facing the coat, or from
the material of the coat itself, and will be
of the same style as the full dress waist
coat. The trousers will be like the full
dress trousers, save that they will fre
quently be more elaborately braided.
The one coat for formal day dress against
which no carping finger of criticism can he
pointed is the double-breasted frock. This
coat will be lighter In effect than last fall.
The waist length will be an Inch and three
quarters more than one-qunrter the wear
er's height, and the full length from six
to seven Inches more than one-half his
height The lapels will show considerable
peak and the width will be liberal except
at the bottom, where it will be two Inches
or a little less. Tho fronts will close mod
erately low, with two or three buttons.
The roll will be silk-faced to the button
holes. Dress worsteds, cheviots and vi
cunas will be the proper materials.
The waistcoat may be single or double
breasted, as desire may dictate, and with
or without a collar. The single-breasted,
no-collnr style will be worn the most, how
ever. The single-breasted waistcoat should
average twenty-six inches In length, close
with five buttons, and should have moder
ately long cutaway points. The double
breasted style will have a pointed bottom
on ongrowing lapels if there Is no collar.
If there is a collar the lapels will be gen
erally sewed on and the roll will be of the
one-piece, peaked lapel style.
The trousers, following the general pat
tern of all the season's, will not be dis
tinctly creased, will suggest the outward
curves of the legs and will be moderately
close at the hips. The side seams will be
cord-wilted. While In material the ten
dency to fancy worsteds predominates,
cheviots are permissible, both in modest
stripes.
The cutaway frock mnde from the same
materials as the double-breasted frock Is
the leading halt dress garment. The cut
away frock for the coming season Is fash
ioned In the same waist length as the
double-breasted frock. It will be from
three to four Inches longer than one-halt
the wearer's height. There will be two
distinct styles In this garment, the more
novel having peaked lapels, flat-braided
edges and Imitation cuffs. The other style,
which, being more conservative, will mnet
with more general favor, will have the
usual down-slanted lapel tops, stitched
edges and vented cuffs. The waistcoat and
trousers will be the same as for day dress.
Business and Lnnnglsg.
The business cutaway frock, which so
often masquerades under the guise of Its
day semi-dress brother, the cutaway frock.
Is a little longer In the waist than its half
brother, the cutaway frock, but the full
length will be the same. . The skirts will
be less cut away and the edge and seam
stitching wider. So long as the cutaway
frock has hip pocket flags, It can never
pass muster for semi-dress, even though It
be made of the materials allotted to the
latter garb. Nevertheless, many well
dressed men are making the business cuta
way serve the purpose of the semi-dress
cutaway by having the coat and trousers
made from a diagonal cheviot" a neat
worsted or some other dressy fabric, and
cut on conservative lines.
The staple for business and lounge wear,
the sack suit, will have a large range of
styles, and In these garments more than
any of the others will each tailor In' a way
have a style of his own. The average
length of the single-breasted sack for the
man of average height will be from 83 to S3
Inches. The double-breasted coat will be a
bit longer. The side fulness at the bottom
In both styles will be marked. The double
breasted sack will, for the most part close
with three buttons, the lapels will be wide
and considerably peaked and the collar will
be one-half as wide as the lapels.
The three button cutaway will be the
leading style In the single breasted sack.
The fronts will be out away nearly half
way to tho center of the leg and will turn
Into the bottom with a round ranging from
a blunted point almost to a sweep. The
lapels will he down slanted, as a rule and
oftentimes will . be either squared or
slightly peaked.
The four button cutaway more becoming
to tall men will be finished like tbe
three button.
The waistcoat for any sack suit must be
without a collar. It maybe , single or
double breasted and either of the samo
material as the suit or of fancy fabrics.
The trousers for sack suits will be a bit
wider than those for half dress.
The blouse coat will be worn for business
as well as lounge wear to a greater ex
tent than ever this season. One style will
have yokes shaped on each side at the
bottom, so as to lie over the front and two
In back, under which the btlt passes.
The long, close fitting, side creased, side
vented, flared bottom sack coat with a
single breasted waistcoat, pear shaped
breeches and leggtns. Is the proper garb
for horseback riding In the morning. In
the afternoon the cutaway frock, with
breeches and boots Is the right garb.
Fancy Walsteoatlnfs.
Never before has there been a season
when ths dilettante in fancy waistcoats
could gladden his eyes and heart on such
a beauteous variety of patterns. For morn
ing and afternoon wear washable mercer
ised fabrics and flannels, similar to the
flannel used fifteen years ago for tennis
trousers. In plain effects, stripes and plaids,
will meet the principal demand. Many
waistcoats will be flat braided. Cashmeres
In soft colors. In which gray will predomi
nate, will meet with much favor. For even
ing wear silk will be the thing In waist
coats. Orays In soft colors, striped and
dotted effects will be fashionable, while
whites, faint yellow and figured patterns
In delicate blue, green, pink and heliotrope
are being chosen by those seeking after
novelties. '
Mohair suits will be popular In mid
summer for those who put comfort first
while they are forced to forego the sea
shore and mountains. The suits will be
made In two piece skeleton suits, quarter
lined. The fabric is so light that when
It is held up the light can be seen through
It but nevertheless the material hangs
well and la less clinging than alpaca on a
hot day. Mohair, tailors will point out
needs scarcely any pressaing, does not col
lect dirt and keeps Its luster. New Tork
Tribune.
Coneul Dunning of Milan reports that so
callod American shoes are made in lttly.
Vice Consul Suhleiuiner writes from Mann
heim, Germany, that he visited a number
of shoe stores In that city which adver
tised American shoes. Bums of the mer
chants admitted that their stocks were
from Milan. One of the shoe store man
agers as an Italian, who aald he eaw
no reason why American shoes should nt
be made la Jlaly just as well as la Massachusetts.
.... H S -vSeeee
DRESNER,
THE
TAILOR
1515 FARNAM STREET
7 he above cut is from a photograph, show
ing the style and Jit of garments made by
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If linings Jail to give satisfaction they will
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