The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-30 00:00:00

great coats descend as low as the ancle, and are of a
nut liroviin : the collar is also of cloth, large, fiat;
_ and veil supple.
;..".;:iiir,onie coats are very open at the breast, and are
nulvrow in the waist. The buttons are very small;

no false pockets.
The favourite colour for coats is blue, olive,
brown, black, and raven-grey.
At a ball in the country, two or three dancers
wore very remarkable kind of shoes which had
neither buckles nor strings, but were like women's
shoes, though cut rather rounder on the instep. A
young gentleman had on an olive green coat, but-
toned over the breast, as high as the cravat, by two
rows of buttons covered with cloth. These buttons
were of the same size with those on the waistcoat.
With a black coat several men of fashion wear a
waistcoat of white, stitched and quilted; white pan-
taloons, white cravat, and the ends of the shirt-collar
rounded.
The waistcoats are of various kinds of silk, of
light colours. Several are seen of an opal-green,
light-blue, or violet. They have, in general, a strait
collar terminating in a very conspicuous point in
front. They are fattened only by three or four but-
tons; the rest remains unbuttoned. The lapels
turn back so as to leave the breast entirely uncovered.
Under waistcoats of white, quilted and stitched,
are much worn beneath a silk waistcoat, notwith-
standing the season. The favourite waistcoat is
celestial blue silk, another is brown, with blue and
rose-coloured flowers embroidered on it : one has
been seen of watered Chinese silk.
Some waistcoats are now in preparation, which
are remarkably rich and elegant. Having no kind
of monotony, nothing fixed in either of the patterns
or shades, they bear the appellation of waistcoats
for every season. On one is seen a barbel, on the
other a lily of the valley, a rose, a scarlet-corn-poppy,
a tulip, a heartease, a daisy, and two butterflies of
South America. It is, without doubt, in the sole
desire of giving pleasure, that such fashions have been
invented ; for our beaux will wear such an assort-
ment on their bosoms which will compel them to
adopt a cause of gallantry towards the fair, who may
study botany by the patterns on their waistcoats.
The newest waistcoats now worn are of kersey-
mere, the colour of the Cachemire shawls, or of
pearl-grey ; some are of nut-brown, antelope-brown,
touterelle, Spanish-brown, London-smoke, and cur-
rant-red. The buttons of silk and velvet waistcoats
are of chased gold.
Waistcoats are made either with a strait collar, or
a collar en schall.
The continued rains have made black Cachemire
and Merino pantaloons the order of the day ; never-
theless, Nankin, and white pantaloons, are yet in
favour. Dress pantaloons are always made so as to
mark out the shape of the leg, but they are worn
shorter. Though they fasten tinder the foot, the
strap is introduced into the shoe, instead of be-
neath it.

The under-dress pantaloons fasten in front by
hooks and eyes, and are very wide ; they are of
Nankin, or of white, with narrow stripes of some
striking colour.
The pantaloons called a Ja»zbe d' .Elephante, are
beginning to be less wide and long at their ter-
mination.
An exquisite wears his clothes so tight that custom
permits him to loosen the buckles of his waistcoat
and pantaloons before he sits down to table.
Pantaloons with stripes of some striking colour,
and a white ground, are generally adopted in un-
dress. These pantaloons are wide, and close in
front by hooks, or small buttons. They ought to
come high over the lower part of the body and the
hips, without forming any plaits.
Besides the shirt-collar, a fashionable man wears,
between the neck and the cravat, a colerette laid in
small plaits, which goes beyond the cravat in a line
at the top.
Several shirts have been seen with the plaits laid
across, in flutings. The most fashionable shirt-
buttons are in the form of an S, and are composed
of several precious stones, or of brilliants.
The shirts over the breast exhibit broad folds.
Some have stripes interwoven in the linen, about
three inches in breadth. Between each of these is
a fold of lawn plaited across like the frill of a shirt.
At the base a stitched band keeps the folds together.
Some pretended fashionables have their shirts
made of Indian taffety.
In morning dress the shirt is often of white jaconot
with narrow stripes of blue, or of flame-colour; or
sometimes, with sprigs of various colours.
Some fashionables wear half-colerettes of white
muslin, laid in small 'plaits, which come above the
cravat two or three inches; these are very conspi-
cuous when the shirt is of coloured gingham, and
the cravat black.
Some exclusives wear the frills of their shirts wider
on one side than on the other : the widest is laid in
a vast number of small plaits, and the narrow side is
fluted.

Among the higher classes ruffles are worn.
The cravat most admired in deshabille, and even
in half dress, is figured over in large spots of black.
These cravats should be very long, and the ends
folded over the breast.
At evening dress parties, some gentlemen wear as
a cravat, a muslin collar laid in large plaits ; this
collar, or stock, fastens behind with a silver buckle.
The bow of a cravat is not now at the lower part,
but in the centre; sometimes it is tied near the chin.
The throat is not now discovered. The cravat
is very flexible, and fastens by a small knot, with
one loop only. The shirt is closed over the breast
by five or six small buttons of plain gold.
White silk stockings are only worn with white
pantaloons, or those orNankin, or of light colours.
Black silk stockings are always worn with black
pantaloons,
Silk stockings should be of a colour to suit the
pantaloons. Those of a white ground, with broad
blue transverse stripes are very much worn. A man
of fashion was lately seen at a ball in the country,
with white stitched pantaloons, with silk stockings,
with broad satin ribs, and which had a very tasteful
appearance.
The shape of the hats has undergone some slight
alteration; the crowns are higher, and rather conical;
the brims larger, and not so much raised on each
side as formerly : they are all placed forwarder on
the head, the collars of the coats being so high be-
hind as to render this mode requisite.
In full dress, white knit gloves are worn, and in
deshabille those of the same kind, coloured.
Except at balls, and at the theatres, a man of
fashion always wears black glazed gloves.
An exquisite wears sometimes on the forefinger of
the right hand, a gold ring enamelled with black,
which fillS up the space from one joint to the other.
On the fourth finger of the left hand there are so
many rings that the finger cannot be bent.
Of all the names successively given to the beard
worn by some exclusives, is that of Saint Anthony,
which is now the appellation given to this hairy ap-
pendage.
A necessaire, or mullunt-in-parro, is an indispen-
sable article for a fashionable young man, but very
expensive. The box must.contain, besides the in-
strumeats for the teeth and nails, a small vessel of
vermillion, smelling-bottles, two covers, two plates
of vermillion, an inkstand, a sand-glass, a silver
pen, &c. &c.
The shoes are square-toed.
Some men of fashion, it is said, have actually been
seen at evening parties with half-boots of satin, made
exactly like those worn by females.
Gentlemen have now two sorts of visiting cards.
When a man of fashion wishes any one to know he
has left his card, his name is written with a pencil on
a square piece of plain vellum.
An engraved card is sent by a footman.

ENORMOUS EEL.--Yesterday some fisher-
men of this town took a very large conger eel below the
Scalp : it measured, when dead, six feet seven inches in
length, and weighed four stone nine pounds. Mr. SHUT-
TLIEWORTH, druggist, of High-street, purchased the gigantic
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