MARCH 26,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
7
What Men May Wear When They Go Home For Easter Vacation
Dress Rehearsal Comes Next Sunday and Men Are Inspecting New Spring Clothes
Students Must Hooverize
Economy in Cloth But Not in Colors—Greens and Grays To Be Popular
(By Lawson May)
Spring is near. Easter comes next week. Easter means new clothes. And what a man wears is very often the outward and visible sign of what he feels. Taking this for all it is worth would mean that our University men are for the most part a rather carefree gentry.
Man will wear about the same habit as he has worn since modern man put away childish things and began to dress as we do now. A hat—green, gray, brown, blue—any color will be worn by the stylish young man of the University. If he doesn't like a hat he can purchase any hue of cap at the downtown stores. Caps, it seems, never will develop the habit of being sane and sensible in their cloth. The more violently wierd the hue, the better the cap sells. There will be no little doodles or hoddlings on the cap because the banner of the clothes makers this year says they are saving cloth. Greens and grays are the desited popular colors for hats. For our soldiers on the Hill the broad brimmed brown hat is the thing.
Coats will have no belts—that is new coats. But there are many men on the Hill who will be seen wearing coats with belts. This is because dad can not afford more than three suits a year. And it isn't time for the third one. Double-breasted three button coats with an absence of flaps at the pockets, but rather with slits for pockets will follow in the footsteps of Mr. Hoover and his save-cloth idea and also will be o. k. with Monsieur Fashion. But man won't be passe neither will he be taken for a German should be appear with a single breasted two-button jacket with flap pockets located four places on the front.
Trouser's which are so called in style books but which are pants in Kansas will be straight edged from the belt down. Carrying the conservation idea to the extreme, the University man should appear with no cuffs on his pants legs.
Because as should be been said before, militaristic style is all the rage. If you haven't dunned a uniform in the real service of Uncle Sam you can at least wear military style clothes.
Vests are high and can be very easily used in covering that spot of egch which you have on your Sunday tie. Vests also will be used this year as in years past for the purpose of camouflaging a dirty shirt. When it is cold, vests should be removed and put in the moth balls to wait the coming of winter.
And the removal of the vest calls for silk shirts and nice neckties. Nicest neckties for University men cost one fifty. They used to be bought for fifty cents. Dad hasn't appreciated this change yet. nitted ties always are good in summer. Likewisely winter. Shirts are t he of a slightly less noisier hue this summer. The feeling of the times must be reflected in the shirts. But man's mind runs to the contrary and the Kansan can see at this moment brightest hues of inconceivable patterns at the parks and union church services this summer.
Stiff collars are being worn more by the elites of dress than ever before. The collars are low, easy to wear and haven't scratched yet. But soft collars still will be worn and the stores have their uniforms. Rubber collars the keenan says that stiff linen collars should be worn. Rubber collars are still passe.
Shoes are being built for comfort more than for pinches this year. University men have already adopted the wide toe and unshinned shoe. Because they're good in foul or fair weather. And that's what military drill is meaning. And the price is going higher every three months. Low shoes are perfectly satisfactory if the man doesn't have a hole in his sock.
Which brings us to that, meaning socks. Not much to say on this subject. Black socks are good. So are white ones. Lawrence haberdasheries are showing green socks with red bands and them. They're good looking, too.
And further into the dress of man we refuse to wander.
What's new for spring?
ANY number of men and young men have asked us that question about the spring clothes. There never has been so much interest before and never so many good styles to be interested in.Because so many men want authentic information, we're publishing these fashion notes.
There's the "erect, shoulders back and chest out" influence of this war that is evident in all the new models. The waist lines are more marked; the buttons placed closer together; military backs and pockets are the thing.
Above you see four young men's styles from Hart Schaffner & Marx
1 At the extreme left is the new two button sack with patch pockets. Notice the straight hanging front and the body tracing lines at the waist.
2. Next you see a double breasted suit; they're going to be worn more than ever this spring. They'll make a pleasing change for many men. Notice the buttons—two only are buttoned. The lapels are semi-peaked.
3 The third suit from the left is one of the liveliest of the new sport styles. There's a seam at the waistline; a military back and slanting slash pockets. Those are small plaits above the waist seam.
4 This suit at the right is another sport style—and an especially good one. The pockets have double rows of stitching and buttons and buttonholes.
We'll be glad to show you some of the other new ones; every suit is all wool for long wear. The value you get for your money makes these the lowest priced clothes you can buy.
PECKHAM'S
The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes
The Kansan sent to the K. U. man in camp, will bring a smile to his face—
$1.25
It will cost you but
To cheer him until June—Subscribe today at the Fraser Hall Business Office or Telephone K. U. 66—it'll be a welcome Easter gift for "him".