Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1916 — ELASTIC VEST IS SUGGESTED [ARTICLE]

ELASTIC VEST IS SUGGESTED

Would Automatically Take Up Slack and Shield Fat Man From Remarks of Ribald Crowd. The skirts which the girls are wearing this spring are equipped with elastic "pucker” strings at the waist, and the ingenuous tailors who build clothing for men should take a hint therefrom and include an elastic section in the vests of the suits they build for customers who are no longer sylphlike in their proportions. Men who hover habitually on the bulgy side —of a 44-inch waistband soinetimes have a mean variation of as much as four inches in before and after breakfast readings. An elastic vest would automatically take up the slack and shield from the remarks of the ribald crowd the man who by persistent starving, sometimes called dieting, is just beginning to see his,own feet for the first time in years, where now a slack and wi-inkled vest is a dead giveaway of the dieting, writes W-jlliam Allen White, in Emporia Gazette. Also, when the flesh is weak, although the spirit remains willing, and the portly brother falls, and wraps himself around baked potato, salad rich in olive oil, and other waistline producers, the elastic section would yield and there would be the same unruffled vest front as that of his more slender days, where now ’ ulging and strained buttons betray the fact that the old man is putting on weight again.