Feature Section C, oil r Ar 44F 'Amdow 414t r t ki u :4Iatg Feature Section VOL XXXV. No. 141 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1925 EIGHT PAGES SOME THOUGmTS SPRING STYLES TV Campus Modes of Today and Yesterday A Broader View on the Pants Situation English Clothes as Seen in America and the Real Togs of the Young Britisher Some Remarks on the Advantages of the Conformity of Collegiate Dress I T if s,1k By Ed Il Hall C LOTHES to( 4ind than a The latter movement c A glance at the late show just how far 1 And every time "Ah! Mademoise much, w'est-ce pas? yard to its standar women lQok to Pa American styles for roughly. Sometime other times, closely. But to get backt of the specific point add the yards? Th No one has to g "English Clothes," "British Models,' so on. Chances are, ing one of the so-ca this. Pants wide al amply broken over1 Joe College, '27, see in the accompanyin latest product from London tailor who pants question hadE ' Let us have a lo dent wears. The E wide, but not so bel est width is just b gradual tapering off Permit me to be use his majesty's i place, to be worn s waist than'over her pany and the upper about the wearer's v As they descend point just below tb they narrow to them about three inches the cuff the pantsF around! Compare Models" here in An so-called "British". Most extrawdnry, a (See the old bean it is the typical Brit inimitable Mr. Davi I don't know wh pants or their nar greatest variance fr gether they make tl Every season, more elusive. This Sprir a broader view tha But since Ameri up with these of the at the rest of a typi be dismissed by sa and stiffer than thei ermore, oxfords, co Iwin Phaintree -- lustrated by sey Davidson In the accompany- forma Davidsonn aseydivisic day are noticed more for their ing cartoon, Halsey student frying to ap- wear bsence, .says a women's modeste. Davidson, '25, has y in cut is no longer interesting. r"The pear English. BelowAnu f the hour is, "Back to Nature." presented, in the top st Spring things for women will we have "today, paren back they have got. row, campus stylesc y- tastes Paris says to the ladies: of the decades from lle, we will dispense with thees omorrow." Th "-London adds another square 1850 to 1900. The Regard-wrong d for men's pants. Just as the ing. the laer, the judgm ris, so. do the men to London. Central figures are, neithe men follow British styles .... artist remars Sim- result s they follow at a distance, at the English studentply: "Use your own loses and the American uo to the pants, for therein lies onejudgment." amou s of my ramble. Where do theycombi iere, gentle reader, is the hitch. ", peal o far to find an advertisement of tions, expre "London Styles for Men," and exhibi if you are a man, you are wear-srie ie Englieh models areowead No discussion of British clothes, however stripe led English models as you read would be entire without reference to the tell you about the day when the few hundred stu- and w Il the way down, cuffs broad and rambling, woltehnieoihutrfrecso h Prince of Wales' "invasion of the States." perhaps dents dressed like buccaneers and thought no more thlvs the shoe---you know the picture. selves n in the second row at the right he may be introduced no more appropriately than in about fancy sweater-vests and ornamental scarfs (and connection with the particular fad he instituted on(adr .g illustration, is displaying the than your aunt's cat. The top row of portrayals in going the fertile imagination of some his late visit. I refer to certain shirt styles. came to this country before the To my mind, his royal highness is directly re- the acompting strtion wil shw pitr faet sponsible for the epidemic of blue and near-blue /4 the evolution of style on, the campus here over the repeat entered his life,.no enteed is ife spnsibe fr te eideic o ble ad nar-luelast half centuiry. Each in his time, we may safely future ok at what a typical Oxford stu- shirts that is sweeping the country. In Englandl f uhum nglishman's pants are wide, very colored shirts such as he wore so frequently have say, was the delight and despair of the Women's Ta] low the calf. In fact, the great- long been common, I am informed. They are worn, league, and the envy of preceding generations. We m( Blow the waist with a none too just like striped white shirts over there, quite see one with his doughty bicycle,-underslung, bal- them to a very narrow cuff! generally. Both types had fallen into disfavor here loon tires, and the fastest thing on the street, if sayin more minute. The trousers (to until the Prince slipped unseen from a cargo gang- \oyou please. Then it was that the bicycle (body by metic dIom) are designed, in the first plank of the Berengaria a few months ago.yieth everal inches higher around the They were popular in the East three weeks later. Fisher) was denounced like the motor car of today. heths e. Suspenders invariably accom- Men's shops in New York and Chicago were selling .- Ikm ofhe v! silly se "dothe"ex-keanv part of the garment fits snugly them when school opened last fall. The fad is ike. On each face, you will observe, is the ex- canva waist in the manner of a skirt. dying now. pression particularly characteristic of each epoch. metics l te ans ecme idr o /Nonchalance, daredeviltry, they are all there. assert the pants become wider to a w i ? s dirt wtest Whn we cl ied te Prince's blue tshir we u- est i, on another something else. But within each on he is allowed so much more variation. Some blue tuxedos, others black. They vary widely and finish. No two at a party will be dressed alike. They do not strive for originality, ap- tly. They simply express their individual in all the small matters of dress to a far r degree than we. en again, English students have, rightly or gly, a good deal of confidence in their own ents in matters of taste. They depend on r friends nor tailors for their examples. The s sometimes gains in interest what it often in beauty. es our average student possess any appreciable nt of taste? Can he recognize color clashes or nations? Does he chose things for their ap- o his own individual taste? To all these ques- one State street dealer in men's clothing has sled himself definitely negative. The dealer ted some of his best sellers in ties. They were d, the kind that enjoyed such a flare a while ago what color mixtures! That type sold by the ands here. The men's shops reported them- unable to keep up with the demand for new more atrocious) combinations. But they are the way of so many other ripples on the sur- of style. Just now we are seeing the single ed device on a plain background. Those who predict an era of occult polka dots in the near . Their popularity is already budding. ilors are not the only ones who say that the gan man of today is a vain beast. A member of edical staff of a ,local hospital is reported as g that the "men of Michigan" use more cos- s than the women. There is some doubt as to er he was or was not classifying some things ,having cream and tooth-paste as cometics. A s of some of the leading dispensers of cos- s failed to completely substantiate this startling ion, if one puts a strict construction on term in on. ess can be one of the most effective publicity- s known. Various famous people have been ed of this aim in their eccentric attire. Not the of these was the great writer and aesthete Wilde. Among his many unique costumes one which consisted of some very colorful oons of some sort and a number of other highly guishing features. This one he chose to wear veral of his appearances while visiting America. e night he was scheduled to lecture at Harvard rsity. Now it so happened that one of the Har- lads was let into the secret of the pink panta- somewhat ahead of time. The audience the evening must have been mildly interested to score or more of student's file into the front before the lecture dressed in a very unusual Mme conisting of pink pantaloons and other un- on features for evening wear. They hadn't seen yet. Furthermore Oscar hadn't seen the boys e front row yet and when he stepped onto the in the self-same garb the amazement was quite al. For those who are unfamiliar with him, I add that Wilde was a large man in practically ie waist-line. From here down r lowermost conclusion, which is above the ankle, not below! At are seldom more than 14 inches this figure with our "English nerica. The average cuff on the suits measures 22 to 25 inches! ny Britisher would assur you. n the second row at the left. He ish college lad, as seen by the dson.) ether, on sight, the length of the row bottoms constitutes their om the American tradition. To- he relationship seem quite futile. over, makes the similarity more ng the American tailor promises n ever. can styles are irrevocably locked e British Isles, let us have a look ical English outfit. The shoes can ying they are generally heavier r American counterparts. Furth- ntrary to the implication of the fortunately neglected several attendant details.. These have to do, first with the pattern of the collar, and second, with the manner of its wearing. The British collar is high and wraps snugly about the wearer's neck in what to uss would seem an uncom- fortable and ugly way. Most important, the soft collar is almost invariably buttoned down or held together under the tie with a short gold pin. (See illustration). Collars are usually of the detachable sort and the soft variety are often replaced by a wing-tip collar worn with a four-in-hand tie. This combination is not confirmed to matinees and in- formal theater parties, but is every where seen for both school and business wear. The remarkable imr. Johnson in his wing-tip collar would have drawn no disgusted glances had he been- strolling through Hyde Park or along Rotten Row instead of the Diagonal. Thousands of British hats are genuuinely imported and sold here every year. But like the suits, they are usually either made specially for American con- sumption and designed accordingly, or else they are of an obscure or ultra-conservative design. In gen- / "/ /. r The students, one notices, prefer the plain straight stick terminating simply in a round silver knob. Older men carry canes of more ornamental design a nd bent handles. Campus styles for men have changed slowly in the past. Each year, however, the ebb and flow of the masculine node has grown swifter until what is surely the high water mark of today. I have been told, by no less than a dozen men who are in the business that students were never more exacting in their dress than they are today. Never, they say, Then compare these Chesterfieldian paragons with the collegiate person at the bottom of the illustra- tion. He is Today-"with a touch of Tomorrow." Dashing youth that he is, this beknickered young man is the picture of what the well-dressed man will wear this Spring. In him the gentle and ex- quisite art of haberdashery has paid its subtlest and most magnificent tribute to Spring. (He is drawn from the life; if you would see him post yourself along the Diagonal some sunny afternoon and he will not disappoint you.) Of course there are other outfits suitable this Spring, we are told. Yet could anything else be quite so correctly correct, or so deliciously delicious. As Paul Leicester Ford says, it would "be credible to Palmerson at his palmiest and have made Bis- marck even more marked than he is." "College conformity" does not quite reach the stage of uniforms, fortunately. Referring to our English cousins again, however, it is undoubtedly true that they dress with less agreement and more variety than we. In a way this seems contradictory. No nation is more rigidly insistent on certain regula- tions of dress. At any sort of a dinner or dance, in Dr getter accuse least Oscar was o pantli disting on sev On univer vard1 loons nextE see a rows' costu comm Oscar in th stage gener maya