The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-01
FOE GENTLEMEN.
Spring and Summer Styles in Business and
Dress Suits.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle
DRESS SUITS.
/ In full dress there has been tendency
| to change little from the conventional
black cloth to the vale cord OF fine diagon-
ais of French manufacture. The coat is
made with very small cord binding on
the edge, the size of steel knitting
needle, which gives it fine finish The
vest is cut with four buttons, and has a
serpentine braid laid on about one-fourth
/ of an inch from The edge. Vests will be
made mostly with rolling collar, but
some still prefer them without The
stylish vest for a change is the figured
| silk or gold and black. Small checks and
| fine stripes in dark colors will be chosen
| for trowsers this season. All high col
ored goods will be avoided by well dress
| ed men The trowsers are cut medium.
| that is neither tight nor loose. and. in all
cases, pantalOons intended to wear with a
full dress suit are made with the pocket
| in the top seam instead Of on the side, or
| in the corner as in others, and no pistol
pocket If there is anything that mars
/ the appearance of full dress suit it is to
| see either by the Tapping out of the skirt
| that the gentleman wearing it has his
| handkerchief in the pistol pocket, or to
sec the wearer standing with his hands in
| his pockets, when temptation is out of
his reach which the pockets are not in Il
convenient place,
THE DoUBLF-BREAsTED PRINCE ALBERT
is always appropriate for evening Wear,
but some. with propliety. prefer the
single breasted, or what is known as the
Broadway coat; the latter is especially
| suitable to a slender figure; both of these
| styles should be bound with silk braid
| Land on fiat, end a facing in many cases
| adds to the effect, though, of course, that
| depends somewhat on the material used
| for the coat The frock coat will be worn
| to some extent with low ron to show
| the shirt bosom, as in the case of business
| coats In fact, it may be said that the
high buttoned style of dress which has
met with so much favor will soon have
seen its day.
The swallow tail dress coat with its low
cut front has lapels faced with the heavi-
est silk, and its edges are finished with a
fine cord the silk facing however is a
matter of taste, and may be omitted.
The vest is cut as low as the coat with
wide lapels and is fastened with three
buttons. Anything extreme in the cut
and finish of such suit is carefully
avoided by men of taste
The trowsers have a stripe down the
outside seam on the leg. made of silk
braid for young men, or of slight cord
for elderly gentlemen.
BUSINESS SUITS.
Scotch homespun plaids, worsteds and
cassimeres. of neat small checks and mix
ed threads of colors. are used for the en-
tire suit-coat, vest and trowsers-worn
by men during business hours. The
goods with red, brown and green threads,
woven together to produce quiet, dark
effects, are most liked. The plain whip
cord worsteds in many different colors
olive, gray and brown shades, will be
much worn by fashionable Young men.
The cheviots, melton and soft goods gen
orally are double stitched on the edge
three eighths of an inch. but the worsteds
and finer goods are bound wide with
braid laid on fiat, which produces a good
effect. Tue three and four buttons cut
away is still as popular as ever, as is also
the four button sack coat; but fashion
seems to favor change from the high
cut style of dress to low roll showing
the shirt bosom with one stud and neck
scarf.
NECKwEAR.
With turned down collars fatty folded
scarfs are preferred, while the pulled
scarf is worn with standing collar A
new pulled scarf. which comes in two
sizes, has a narrow band passing around
the neck and fastened with pin. The
plain fourth hand has also band pass
ing around the neck and tied in a club
house knot, with patent retainer tn keep
it in place. The darker shades are pre-
ferred, although many show a great deal
of color. Those showing reddish shades
are selected by men of dark complexion.
The straight wide De Joinviile scarf is
tied by the wearer in narrow sailor knot
The large scarfs are of satin, with stripes,
spots, and various figures in rich dark
colors. Folded white cambria or lawn
ties, not quite an inch wide, and with
square ends, are still used for full dress
Black satin ties are also used for evening
wear. A very neat evening tie is of
white repped Ottoman silk, as lustrous as
satin, made up in narrowly folded
sailor knot. Tiny pearl headed or solid
gold pins, shaped like an ordinary pin,
are used to hold the loops of white lie in
place. Most of the new scarf pins arc
very simple, such as pins with heads in
the shape of cube or ball. dumbbells of
hammered gold, and a gold ball which has
three Jewels in it sunk in the gold In gypsy
setting. The dark silver pins are made
in quaint devices of of birds, heads. masks
and they also represent flower in its
natural colors. Collar buttons are of
hammered gold mi sometimes hold a
jewel. The linked sleeve buttons are
square, round oval disks of hammered
silver or gold, or else some dark carved
stone
The new standing collars are higher in
front and cut away. The turned down
collar is most comfortable, and has now
more than an inch of space open at the
throat and widens further to the pointed
ends. Cuffs have square corners that
meet when fastened by linked sleeve
buttons.