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Friday, March 21, 1952 University Daily Kansan
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Casual Wear Gains In Popularity In Cities
Casual wear, once the province of the country and suburban dweller, is now first choice with the city man.
Responsible for the swing to the comfortable, colorful clothes is the fact that more and more town men are commuting to their jobs in the city while making their home in the smaller suburban towns where life is lived at an easier, more relaxed pace.
Men's wear has kept in step with changing habits and, country clothes go to town this spring.
Tweeds, once associated with a loose, illfitting, baggy look, now are well-tailored, cut in a narrower line and neat as a blue serge. Tweed fabrics for spring are softer with almost a cashmere look!
Newest jackets in tweed are those with vented backs and patch pockets, equally at home in town or country. Colors are rich with all of the tins at the top of the list. Small patterns are also high in color.
Shirts, both sport and dress, are influenced by the demand for more casual dress. Many of the newest suits button conventionally at the collar.
Continuing in the casual vein, accessories play an important role in this wardrobe as they do for more formal weary. Standard choice for wear with tweeds and flannel suits are soft, richly colored hats, argyle socks, cashmere sweaters, long-sleeved or sleeveless and gay, colorful shirts. Rough-grained leather shoes can take a good scuffing.
With a bow tie they are designed for town wear. Other dressier shirts of oxford cloth, patterned or in plain cloth are good match for tweeds and flannels.
A perfect companion for the tweed jacket is gray flannel slacks. The newer ones are slimmer, with pleats much less in evidence.
The casual look is right for spring in the section of the land. The smart man goes
At the same time he looks well-groomed and neat, comfortable and right for business or pleasure.
Colors, Fabrics Accent Men's Wear
Color and fabric news are key-
noted for bold accents in men's suits
and coats this season. There are no
radical departures in styling and
tailoring details — instead, men's
wear highlights novelty fabrics and
colors. Texture is optional . . . smooth finishes and rough surfaces are parallel in importance.
This season you'll step out in color. For color runs the gamut in muted and medium tones—with many patterns to choose from.
Especially smart and brand new, are the brighter medium shades that have smoky or greyish overcasts. Pattern designs due for new-season popularity are multi-color checks, close-set pin stripes and tick weaves.
In some instances a tiny feather cluster is tucked into the narrow band of the hat for a heightened casual effect. While lighter shades, in the brown, tan and grey families, also play an important role in the over-all subdued appearance.
THE LATEST IN SHOES—Two of the latest creations in choes are shown above. Left to right, a slip-on laceless oxford with a U-wing and alligator grain print, and a spring sandal in blue leather, cork sole.
'52 Hats Have Natural' Look
The Tyrolean-type hat retains major "prominence among spring"52 sport hats. With both rough and smooth fabric textures making news in latest designs. A typical example of new Tyrolean texture interest is the model with a rough suede finish and a suede leather band plus the byword of the Tyrolean, a jaunty brush feather.
Caps are, for the most part, even bolder than those featured for past seasons. They offer larger check patterns and are available in such rough hewn fabrics as a variety of tweeds and corduroys, in solid tones, that can be selected to match or contrast with the rest of a sports outfit.
Men can look forward this spring, to wearing hats as comfortable, easy going and natural in appearance as the sport jackets, slacks and tweedy suits that complete their new season outfits.
For the newest designs in dress hats are pared all around to help provide a suitable complement to the natural silhouette. While the popularity of sport hats and caps seems to be keeping steady pace with the popularity of wearing separates for most every occasion.
Narrowed brims and lower crowns come together to help achieve a natural, understated appearance in dress hats.
Newest toiletries for men are designed to help make a fellow feel handsome and well groomed, and look it, too.
Spanish is the popular language of Puerto Rico, although many of the people speak English.
Two or three button single-breasted suits hold preference over the double-breasted suit. The reason is simply that one row of buttons seems to create more flattering lines.
You'll find them in sheen gabardines, solid gabardines, glen plaids, checks, worsteds, flannels, coverts, crossdyles, sand-tones and a wide variety of other weaves. For this is a year of fabric news and fabric makes the suit.
Special note—a grey flannel suit is a valuable asset to any man's wardrobe—wear the jacket with other slacks — the trousers, with other jackets.
For the man who dresses on a budget (and who doesn't) the new rayon suitings are smart and resist wrinkles.
After his morning shower, he can reach for a special skin cream (if he has a sensitive skin), that helps prepare his face for daily whisker removing. Then, if he desires a facial while shaving, he can use a new shaving cream containing ozone, that acts as a skin bracer, too.
New Toiletries List Soap-Washcloth Mitt
If a sudden after hours appointment arises, and there's hardly time or place for a shave, he can apply a new product that looks like his wife's pancake make-up and is applied the same way.
New Rayons Easy On Clothing Budgets
For the traveling man, toilery items such as cologne, hair tonic and talc come conveniently packaged in squeezable plastic bottles.
Men's Spring Shoes Feature Comfort, Simplicity Of Styling
Dress shoes appear with lighter dresses and are called 'featherweight'.
Even with innovations they have been whittled down to streamlined proportions and fold remarkably flat under a heavy load.
Men's Wallets Larger, Flatter
Convenience is tops in men's wallets. They are ample in size and outstanding in versatility. Removable card and photo cases, check books and inner-folds add to the appeal of these masculine accessories, but not to their bulk.
For the man who likes to keep his bills, papers and change all together, there are a variety of wallets, in many leathers, which carry ample expanding coin purses with plenty of room for change.
Leathers, too, emphasize cool comfort. For this season, mesh is much in evidence combined with smooth leathers.
Soft, informal shoes take on new appeal with foam, crepe-type soles. Soft, glossy lined and unlined soft, glove-like leatherts with "pineless" design.
An unusual one contains a partition in the bill compartment for better organization of the contents, plus two deep utility pockets. A leather card case is enclosed in one, while the other new wallet offering contains double vision windows for identification or photos.
Soft, brushed leathers and leathers with reptile prints, like simulated
Shoes, featured for men, this spring, place emphasis on lighter weight, comfort and simplicity of styling.
Some of the more completely organized wallets feature a removable leather photo card case, which can be interchanged with any standard checkbook. Some contain a special flap in the bill compartment which forms a secret pocket for bills of larger denominations or for private papers.
Such new designs, as the envelope fold, that has a smooth unseamed look from toe to tongue; the tobacco pouch, on hand with a variety of soles and detailed with a drawstring around them and a tassel口器 or sophisticated version of classic moccasin, place their styling accent on comfort and simplicity.
There are two basic style categories in men's neckwear, bows and four-in-hands. But within these two categories there are as many as 50 different styles. Average length of a tie is from 47 to 54 inches.
Two Styles, 50 Varieties
PERENNIAL FAVORITE —Hard finish light-weight worsteds always are "right" for the occasion. The above suit, by Eagle clothes, typifies the season's trimly-tail-ored lines.
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ostrich grains, are also abundant For warmer weather days, there are many all fabric shoes to be had such as linens and denims, as we as fabrics combined with leathers.
Unusual styling details presente for spring include colored wetting often matched by the lacing, an brushed leather laced oxfords it bright colors like rust. Often then brushed leather oxfords are trimme with reptile prints or smooth leather and come in matching colors or contrasting tones.
New Styles Keynote Men's Spring Gloves
Bold stitching, deep stitched hem
whip stitching, side vents and sid
walles offer many gloves eye-catching
style effects.
Lighter weights, lighter colors an new style details are the keynote of men's gloves designed for spring
Airy weight capeskins, soft suede and leather and nylon combination carry out the emphasis on light weight gloves for spring. These are featured in such light-mannere tones as grey, leather shades, sand rust and navy.
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