Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-01
FASHIONS FOR GENTLEMEN.
The Latest Styles of Clothing for the
Winter Season.

and trousers-made of one piece of goods.
such as the fine, neat mixtures and indeti-
mite checks OF English cloth, or the rough
suitings, Scotch cheviots and home-spuns.
For fine mixed cloths the coat is the Eng
lish cut-awsy to button four buttons, or
merely to button one button across the
chest; the vest is cut very high, and has
collar and the trousers are medium It's hit
fitting. The taste this season is for brown
and olive shades in business suits. For the
rough cheviots and home.spun cloths sack
coat is preferred, and this may be either
double breasted pea jacket or single
breasted, close. fitting sack. Very stylish
sack suits are made of English all wool
rough cloth in small checks of gray and
blue with some olive tints. Rough suits OF
blue or black ribbed Scotch cloth are made
with pea. jacket that has a silk facing and
wide braid on the edges. Very heavy pea.
jackets to wear without overcoats are made
single.breasted, with velvet collar and
velvet edges like binding.
Dressy morning suits for paying calls,
lunches, etc have a four-b button cut-away
coat made of either black or blue English
cloth in fine diagonals, or in the newer
corkscrew twilled patterns The vest of
the same cloth is cut as high as the coat, so
that scarcely any Of the scarf is seen. The
trousers have narrow stripes of some odd
shade of brown or olive, or even of dark
red threads on black or brown.
Day dress suits for making visits, for
church, afternoon receptions, and for day
weddings for groom, ushers, and guests,
have the Prince Albert frock.coat and vest
made of black or blue diagonal or cork
screw cloth. This coat is of the length
worn last year, and shorter than those pre-
viously worn it shows only tritie of the
scarf when buttoned, and is finished with
silk facing and braid. The trousers are
light, or else of dark grey or brown like
those described above. A change from this
adopted by dressy men for afternoon wear
is frock suit with the three pieces made
of grey or brown diagonal cloth of the
finest quality, finished with silk facing and
stitched edges.
Overcoats of light weight for autumn
wear and for pleasant days in winter are
made of fancy diagonal or of corkscrew
cloth, or else of new material that resem.
bles Melton, but is rough, like camel's hair.
Brown, blue-gray and dark mixtures are
the colors for these, and the shape is sack
of medium length. with silk facing extend
ing to the edges of the front, so that when
the coat is thrown open nothing but silk is
seen as lining. Winter overcoats are of
fur beavers and Elysians, with velvet col
lar and velvet edges like binding These
are sin gle. breasted sacks with quilted silk
facings and satin Innings. Men who object
to rough materials have overcoats made of
the fine, smooth beaver known as patent
beaver, with plain fscings, stitched edges
and velvet collar. Olive, brown, blue,
gray and dahlia shades are used for such
overcoats. Some stylish young mean wear
for the promenade surtout overcoats of this
smooth beaver these must not be very
long. and should not have the flaps and
bone buttons that make them look like
coachman's coat. Driving coats of cream
colored kersey are made double breasted
and very loose, in what is called box-coat
style. listers are of Elysians and other
rough goods, made in the long Newmarket
shape.
Shirt-hosoms for day use remain perfect
ly plain, in shield shape, and are made of
three thicknesses of linen, with very fine
cord, or else merely rows Of stitching, on
the edge that laps. All ornament is use.
less for these bOsoms, as they are entirely
concealed by the high vest and the scarf.
The bosoms of full.dress shirts are usually
made plain also, but novelty this season
is the introduction OF dots OF embroidery,
done by the needle, over the entire bosom;
these dots vary from the merest speck TO
those that are a fourth Of an inch in diam
eter. This is the finest needle-WoTk, and
is adopted by men of fashion who would
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embroidery formerly seen on shirt bosoms.
One large stud, which usually contains a
precious stone, is worn with full. dress
shirts.
The newest standing collars revive the
turned-over or broken points in the front
formerly worn, and called English collars +;
! these are very high all around, meet in
| front, and are turned back in large points.
Another standing collar is not SO high, is
cut sloping in front, and is worn to lap.
| Turned-down collars are narrow, with
shorter points than those lately used, and
do not meet in front, leaving space of an
inch or more for the bow of the scarf or
the small necktie. Cuffs are worn rather
large, with either square or round corners
that meet instead of tapping and are fast
tened by linked buttons. MeIino under
wear comes this season In grey and dark
| tan shades as well as white, while silk TN.
| dergarments are OF lavender or pearl color
! Walking shoes are doub bic. soled buttoned
| CATERS Of calf-skin, made with low, broad
! English heels. There is a tendency to
broaden the toes of all shoes thai have
been worn nearly pointed on account of
the closely. fitted trousers but sensible
men have never followed either of these
fashions in the extreme. Dress shoes for
the house and for carriage wear are made
of patent leather, with kid or cloth tops
these are buttoned CATERS, with light soles
and low heels Patent leather pumps and
alligator.skin slippers are worn with black
or very dark socks in the morning at home.
The crowns of black silk dress hats are
not quite so much curved in bell shape as
they were last year the crown may be 81
inches high, or only 81 inches. The brm
is narrower than it has been worn of late,
and is very moderately rolled. Business
hats are of stiff felt, either black or brown,
of Derby shape, with a semi square crown
tapering towards the top, and about five
lnches nigh this is preferred to the round
Derby crown; the brim is in the shape de-
scribed for silk hats. The crush opera hats
are about the same shape as the new silk
mats. Neglige hats, called hammock hats
and pocket mats, are of soft felt OF light
weight, also of cloth, Cheviot and of silk,
and are comfortable for travellers on long
| journeys.
Kid gloves for the street, for driving and
for church are in red tan ehades of heavy
kid, with wide stitching on the back either
IN self color or 10 black they are fastened
by two buttons. Light pearl colored gloves,
with black stitching on the back, are shown
for dress, but these are so little used by
gentlemen, either at day or evening enter
taiDments, that they need scarcely be
noted Heavy goat-skin gloves without
stitching are worn by gentlemen when driv-
ing. There is also fancy for hand. knitted
gloves OF raccoon fur and silk, made by
Shakers out Of hand spun yarn, in which
the fur and silk are mixed in a yarn that is
as soft as csmel's hair these are tilburied
for driving-that lie, they are faced with
dog-skin inside the hands-and cost Sll a
pair the plain gloves, not tilburied, are
81. Tobogganing gloves, knitted IN Can
ada, OF heavy wool yarn IN ribs, are long
enough TO reach to the elbow outside the
coat sleeve.
Canes and umbrellas have crutch han
dies of silver made to represent buck horn ;
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