 A journalist named Blakely Hall judged that Wall had won the "Battle of the Dudes" against Robert "Bob" Hilliard, another sartorial dude when, during the March Blizzard of 1888, he strode into a bar clad in gleaming boots of patent leather that went to his hips.Nevertheless, some historians still consider it was Hilliard who won that dude battle.Wall won another fashion contest in August 1888, in Saratoga Springs, New York.