MAKING CANES TO ORDER.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 451, 8 December 1904, Page 3

MAKING CANES TO ORDER.

Demvo.iida Made Upon Workmen bjr SbaaKM of Faahtoaa SA Wotftc- ,

"Fashions change in cants, » they do in everything else," naid a -manufacturer who knows all abowt the fashionable trade mp New York Times. our customers- were calling for rough wood in its natural stats, without any ornamentation. They wanted canes made almost as thin and as light as whahgees. So many sheap imitations had been mode of silvermounted smooth-wood canes that men of fashion would not look at them. This year we are returning to silver mounts, but in designs made to order that it will be almost out of the question for importers of cheap German silver to imitate. In umbrellas the handles of rough wood still hold favor with the men. It Is no longer fashionable to decorate them with initials. A man likes an umbrella that he can pick out at sight from a buneh of others at his club or elsewhere. Some men will have the crooked handle so that they can hang their umbrellas on a hook in a bat rack, and we have to manufacture a few of them to meet the demands of the trade. Women always go in for something odd, and usually expensive."