River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-06-20
Fashson Freaks.
From the New York Express.


style of dress now adopted by gentlemen.
Fashionable tailors make the coats of all
suits shorter than they have been worn for
several seasons; trousers are not so loose in
the legs as those lately worn.
The full dress suit for evening and for
day receptions has a coat and vest of west of
England cloth, jet black, and of the .'dead
finish that is entirely without lustre The
swallow-tail coat is slightly shortened and
rolls very low IN front: the front of the vest
also rolls low to match the coat, The panta-
looms are of doeskin, of the same shade of
black as the coat and vest.
The semi. dress for church, visiting and
afternoon wear has Prince Albert frock
coat of black diagonal or the fine corlxscrew
weaving. The vest is of the same cloth as
the coat, and is cut single breasted. BY way
of variety, and for dressy occasions in mid
summer white double-breasted vest is used
instead; this laps in front, and merely a
white edge like fold shows when the coat
is buttoned above it. The pantaloons have
neat stripes of medium colors neither very
light nor very dark.
For business and travelling suits one pat
tern of plaided Scotch goods is used for the
entire suit. Sacks and fitted coats are both
stylish for these. Some of the sacks are
fastened by three buttons, while others but
ton only one button and fall open.
Summer overcoats are principally sack
shaped, and, like all other coats, they are q
trifle shorter The materials are diagonals
and meltons of dark color. For travelling
are imported busters of gray English mohair
or of Panama cloth, or else checked gray
with black; these are long sacks, with the
ulster belt confined to the back instead of
passing around the waist.
Shirt fronts are very plain, consisting of
three thicknesses of linen without pleats,
though sometimes ornamented down the
edge with cluster of very small tucks, or
else of fine cords stitched in. Colored shirts
are percales with white ground, on which is
stamped a very delicate and quaint figure in
blue, brown, black or scarlet, such as rows of
dots, coral branches, zigzag dashes, or else
large cross-bars of single threads of color.
Small spots and hair stripes are always in
good taste.
Straight standing collals, almost like the
old-fashioned garrote collar, are worn again.
These do not have the fronts turned over in
points, but are square cornered and are worn
to meet, sometimes to lap, and sometimes
the edges are quite far apart, exposing the
throat; the first is considered the most
stylish. The English collar with the fronts
bent back as if broken, is still in vogue.
Linen cuffs are made to meet, instead of
tapping, and are fastened by linked sleeve
buttons. The corners are round, or else
square, like the new collars.
The scarfs most worn at present are in the
Stanley shape, fatty folded and wide enough
to conceal the shirt front above the vest.
According to the English taste, colord scarfs
are more worn than formerly, and figured
silk and satins of quaint patterns in the col
ors fashionable for ladies' dresses are used.
An excellent novelty for summer is the
linen duck scarf, in Stanley shape, or else of
white repped pique, or perhaps OF white
Marseilles, dotted with the blue or black.
These cost from fifty cents to one dollar,
and are offered in lieu of the narrow white
lawn ties so commonly used in summer.
There are also cream color and gray linen
scarfs with squares or basket-woven designs.
The Balbriggan half-hose, most popular
this season, have very fine stripes of color
around the white instep, with solid-colored
soles. Instead of the cardinal and dark blue
socks of last summer, there is a preference
for drab, brown or black, or else the nerest
thread stripe of red or blue.
For nice underwear, Balbriggan vests are
show n, with drawers to match, i'll cream
color and brown shades. These cost 80 a
suit. Balbriggan socks to match these are
imported for $18 dozen.
Narrow hens, ON which are colored fig
ures, are on the large linen handkerchiefs
used by gentlemen. Something unique in
color and design, like the peculiar patterns
for scarfs, is selected for these borders.
The hens are hemmed-stitched, and there
is wider border of color inside the hem.
Kid gloves are of beige or mastic gray
shades, with three wide rows of stitching of
the shade of the kid on the back. They are
long enough to require two buttons on the
wrists. The grey lisle-thread gloves are
shorter and fastened by one button.
The low Oxford ties of calf-skin are the
shoes for street wear in summer. They are
made with rather narrower toes than those
lately worn, and broad low heels. There
are also buttoned CATERS with kid top for
ordinary wear, For dress occasions are pat
ent leather CATERS with black tops. An at
tempt has been made to introduce sharp
pointed toes, but these crowd the foot pain
fully, and have not met with favor.
Lap-robes for gentlemen's wagons are
squares of gray or brown linen woven in
basket designs, bordered with blue or red
damask figures, and fripged on the edges.
These cost from $3.50 to So Flannel or
cloth robes of gray or brown have neat
border of brown, black or blue cloth stitched
all around the edges; price S12.