1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Correct Clothes model of civilized dress from Singapore to Sitka, dis- plays common sense and judgment that every bachelor may do well to emulate, especially in the matter of jewelry. " Rarely does the king wear more than one finger ring," says a London haberdasher's journal. A profusion of jew^elry is unequivocally vulgar in a man, even though it may indicate wealth. To hit the happy medium between Frenzied Fashiom and Moldy Modes, adapt the prevailing style of dress to your bearing and manner. To do this is to be mas- ter of one of the fine arts. Study, therefore, your apparel that it may be fit for function and form. An ill-fitting coat Is a crime against good taste. First, have your clothes fit you; then fit your clothes, that they " shall not make a false report." *' Mark Twain " has said that " one cannot tell from the looks of a frog how^ far It can jump," but more often than not a man is judged by the clothing he wears. Whether they are built in the Rue de la Paix, New Bond Street, Fifth Avenue, or Sutter Street, does not particularly matter, so long as they fit. The unskilled cloth butchers of the West End of London have made many a man look like a suit of pajamas on an umbrella stand. Togs that become one man may make another re- semble a mongrel in a fancy blanket. As plaids were Invented for the rail-bird, stripes for the jail-bird, and tweeds for Tammany Hall, so do various other less 182