The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-09

| Since the taste in gentlemen's dress IL
| yearly growing more English in its char
acter, it may be well to point out some
| OF the reasons why English gentlemen
while wearing the worst made and poor
| est fitting garments, are considered sc
| we'll dressed, and 1or models of style fol
| the rest OF civilized mankind. An Eng
lishman is invariably well dressed about
| the neck; has smart collar and a hand
| some scarf for general wear; wears his
garments buttoned snugly to the figure
and relieves the monotony of dark coat
| with o white Waistcoal, buttoning well
up; while his hat and gloves Will be con.
sislent with the costume. There must
| be consistency in all ones garments to
present good appearance. Americans,
while having the very best and most
carefully made clothes in the world, are
apt to be too careless of the details.
How often do we see here high silk hat
worn with a short sack coat or reeting
jacket, or low crowned felt hat with a
handsome trock coat! The effect of the
most becoming morning costume is spoil
ed by wearing low-cut waistcoat and a
narrow ribbon tie. Outer garments here.
as rule, partly owing to the climate,
are worn too much open to dress man
well. While it is the tout ensemble of
gentleman's appearance that indicates
his being well dressed, it is the care and
attention to details that produces the
harmonious whole.
Many persons spend very largely on
dress without ever being or feeling well
dressed; and il, of course, requires
some natural taste and tact in the ar
rangement Of ones garments to make q
refined and gentleman-like appearance.
Some try everything and never succeed
in being well dressed. Sometimes it is
the hat that is not becoming. anu more
often it is the neck that is not dressed in
good taste. Sometimes q white waist
coat, buttoning high and showing above
the turnover Of a well-fttfng irock coat.
will revolutionize a mans appearance,
and produce the desired enect. Too
many tailors, are purely mechanical,
making from year to year just what their
even less about it than the tailors do, |
What most Americans desire is suit to |
wear all the time and at any time, to put |
right ON and wear it at the business, or
make call in the evening, and keep
wearing until it is worn out, when they /
,et another suit, often of the most eX-
5ensive kind, which goes through the
same process, and so ON. Such men
never look well dressed. They are
either too much dressed tor general busi-
less purposes, or too little dressed to be
,ecoming ON the occasions when appro-
,riate costume indicate good taste and
II a trock is becoming to man, as in
eed it is to nearly all, and his business
eing professional or otherwise. will
ermit Of it, by all means let him wear
rock coat at business with suitable
forming trousers, but let him keep an
xtra one on hand for special occasions.
single-breasted morning coat and
'aistcoat, made from any of the dark,
eat, worsted coatings. with medium
Dior striped or checked trousers, is usu-
lily the most appropriate for businessi
ear. A suit all alike, OF a check adapt
| to the wear, comprising either morn
lg coat with pockets under flaps. or
eeGng jacket, with out
de pockets, serves well for llndress or
ayeling purposes. Light coloreti trou-
RS should only be worn in the morning. s
'd dark trousers for scmi-dress, with a ,
ock coat. a blue irock coat is the most
,rteet tor wedding receptions, and plain :
ack throughout ior u tull dress suit. (
'ess coat, waistcoat and trousers. A
ng scarf, tied into sailor knot is the
,st for general wear, and the same, orj
ade-up Stanley, with frock coat, forl
mi-dress; and plain, white, narrow
lmbrie tie for tull dress.-Home .
'urnal. III