Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — FORM CLOTHES TO BE VOGUE [ARTICLE]

FORM CLOTHES TO BE VOGUE

Plump Gentlemen May Need "Stay** to Get Away With Newest In Masculine Adornment. Atlantic City, N. J. —Form clothes will be the vogue during the present year. So decree the National Association of Merchant Tailors, which Is discussing styles In annual convention here. All delegates emphasize the form fitting trend of the time. Some of them went so far as to suggest that mature gentlemen of a plump, If not corpulent, tendency will need “stays” to get away with the newest things In masculine adornment. According to the terms of the trade masculine styles for the ensuing 12 months are to be sprightly without conspicuousness; dashing without verging on extremes; youthful In tem< perament and Inspirational. Inf place of the inevitable summer flannels of the past men will wear recreational raiment, fashioned of silk, fine linens, and other delicate fabrics. Even the prosaic sack suit of business Is tc have a “swing” Imparted to It by tr high waistline and a long vent back. But It is In sporty toggery that th< styles are going to go the limit Coati will be strapped and tabbed and plaited. Riding coats are to have flaring skirts, a back vent running to the high waistline, diagonal Jetted pockets, and upon both sides with an additional outside pocket, neatly flapped, to carry change.