The Archive · 1924

MEN'S WARDROBES

DIRECTOIRE-EMPIRE — And How Women May Appreciate Them

We are always learning something about men's efothes.

And the amore we learn about them the more humbly we admit that men ore more ignorant about women's clothes than we about theire, For instance, woman to woman, did you ever realize that wilees 0 man's cout wrinkled ft wae not atvictly modish?

We regret to relate thet we id not undoretand thie until recently.

It is all on account of shoulders. Broad shouldered men have always: been popular with the best selling authors and every lady has instinetively felt their charm; but have we realized to whom credit was due? It's the tuilor, He is the Destiny that shapes one end, and the boot-maker does the other Watch the "Stream-Line" husband all about the way the tailor has spoiled your expensive new velour material, or how much you wish you had chosen coral Instead, of Incquer for your new evening frock, lead the conversation deftly around to men's trousers. Try to take as intelligent an interest in the cuffs of his trousers as you wish he would about your Shoulders ave being worn especially wide this season, If the shoulders of any of your masculine friends do not broaden sufficiently, you will have to cross them off your calling list or else send them 8 copy of "The Well Dressed Man" or "What Mon Ave Wearing." One can hardly have the shoulders too broad. Better exaggerate than not have ' enough "width. Any' hisshspirited, beauty-leving young man will be certain to taper symmetrially down from his shoulders to ally hewn, oe i osa

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