The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-30 00:00:00

GENTLEMEN'S FASHIONS.

From the Gentleman's Magazine of Fashions, fur Feb.)

WALKING DRESS.

The coat is of a light green milled superfine cloth,
and is to be worn without a great coat, as it is of a
stout texture, for that purpose. It is made double-
breasted, but broad lappels at top to button up across
the neck if required ; the length of the coat should
be between that of an ordinary frock coat and a great
coat; the cullar and lappels are of black Genoa
velvet ; the skirts are lined Isith silk, the same
colour, or black velvet, the same as the collar and
lappels; the sleeve is rather full to the elbow, and
from thence to the wrist it fits the arm rather tight;
the pockets are in the folds behind, and a breast
pocket horizontally across the left breast. The
trowsers are of milled kersey, tight about the hips
and waist, and of moderate width at bottom, not to
cover the boot ; they are not so long at the bottom,
nor so wide as last month.

ADDITIONAL NOVELTIES IN GENTLEMEN'S DRESSES.
The colours most in favour for gentlemen's dress
coats, are dark green, black, or blue ; that is, provided
the wearers are contented with the reputation of men
of fashion, but if they aspire to the exquisite, they
will choose a colour which has just appeared, called.
Flannnes crozier. Coats of that colour must have
a velvet collar to correspond as nearly as possible
with the cloth. The collar must sit close to the
neck, and not exceed three inches in breadth. Blue
is little worn, except by-gentlernen who have never
been in the habit of wearing any thing else.
But the coat is not, after all, the most important
article: it is the waistcoat that is considered the
true touchstone of a man's taste. Those bloods who
leave the choice to their tailor, wear black or watered
satin, with small gold buttons, finely wrought.—
White Marcella waistcoats arc seen only on gentle-
men who, though-they have no pretensions to taste,
do not choose to be dictated to by their tailors; but
those dashers, who take this most important affair
into their own hands, are seen in fancy materials, the
colours of which are remarkably brilliant, or else in
cachemere embroidered au crochet, or silks of various
colours, the produce of the looms of India and Japan.
Under waistcoats, of the most stylish description,
are of scarlet cachemere, or bleu lapis, printed in
different patterns.
The pantaloons of those dashers who do not go
to the extreme of fashion, are always of black cache-
mere, sufficiently tight to show the shape of the leg;
they reach to the ancle, but do not sit quite close.
The pantaloons of a dasher are quite tight, and com-
posed either of cachemere or black knit silk ; the
last is considered most fashionable. Black or dark
blue trowsers, made moderately small all the way
down, with a broad stripe of velvet or silk braid up
the sides of the seams, are much worn.
Undress pantaloons are always of pearl grey or
Spanish brown.
The bosoms of chemises are ornamented with very
small buttons, placed very near each other; there
are generally six, which reach to the centre of the
bosom.
Many gentlemen are seen in white satin cravats.
We see some undress cravats composed of black
,velvet, with very large ends, which entirely cover
the bosom.
Some of our dashers appear, in walking dress, in
cravats of red merinos, with small black patterns.
The chin is enveloped in the cravat, and the ends of
it entirely cover the bosom.
The crown of dress-hats are made to fold in the
middle, so that they can be very conveniently ear-
-1 ried under the arm. Some are composed of black
I velvet.

A celebrated leader of fashion lately appeared at
a ball in the costume which we are about to describe.
Coat of Flammes d'enftr, waistcoat watered silk,
tight pantaloons.of nut-coloured eachemere. This
dress has been very generally admired, particularly
the mantle worn with it, which is really remarkable
for its novelty and elegance. It is eomposed of
brown peluche, better known to our readers by its
original name of pluche de soie. This beautiful ma-
terial has some resemblance to bears' fur.
The hat a la William Tell, is just come into
favour in undress ; it is smaller at the top than at
the bottom of the crown, and has a very narrow
brim, which is turned up at the sides.
In half-dress a dandy wears plain white silk
stockings, with black cachemere pantaloons, which
hardly reach the ancle.

The Court Journal of this day, Saturday,
January 30, contains, amongst numerous other articles,
three particularly-striking original papers. One is enti-
tled "Les Chevaliers de Benne Chere," and includes a
plan and proposition for the establishment of a new "order
of merit," in connection with the noble and universally
improved -science of eating ! Another is called " A
Dowager's Diary," and presents a most edifying exposj
of the amiable arts resorted to by "the most noble mothers
of the world" to settle their beloved daughters. The
truth of the picture, it is said, will be universally recog-
nised in high life, and universally relished in every other.
The third paper is another of the " Conversations with
an eminent Living Artist," the first of which excited so
much attention in various quarters a fortnight ago. These
moral pictures, thrown off unconsciously as it were, from
the mind of the patriarch of English art in the present
day, are certainly deserving of universal attention, no less
for their fine practical wisdom than for their exquisite
purity, simplicity, and truth.

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could only earn 4s. per week; that he bad a wife and six
young children ; that he had tasted no food from. Saturday
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to Monday, except some raw turnips which he had taken
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in a field i❑ the neighbourhood on the Sabbath ; that his
wife had lately been delivered of twins ; that unable to'
move. the half-famished babes were bucking the half
famished mother, till they literally drew blood instead of
milk from her bosom ! ! The Clergyman, with en Eider,
visited the abode—they saw—they wept--they relieved—
what they were told was not a solitary case in this place.
—Glasgow Courier.