The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-10-02
What Men Wear In England.

tits in the manner of wearing English
clothes that the American Anglo
maniacs so egregiously fail. Therefore,
come over here and directly ''give them
selves awayn-despite their study of
the English accent and pronunciation
just as soon as they appear before the
British eye as they find it southwest of
Regent Street, let me give few rules
of dress which are strictly observed by
English gentlemen at home.
In the first place, dress in England
is divided into morning md t'even-
ing" dress, and each has a well-deined
and understood meaning, aside from
the mere name. Morning dress is that
which is worn until dinner, and even
ing dress that worn at dinner and after
ward The dressing bell for dinne2 IS
the dividing line between the tvs
This rule as to dress is thoroughly well
known and strictly followed in polite
society. To appear in evening dress or
any approach to it-a white necktie or
black trousers, for instance-in the
morning, or in morning dress, or any
approach to it, in the evening, would
be a breach of propriety sufficiently
serious to make the person infringing
the rule looked upon as of low origin
or eccentric ways. Good breeding and
eccentricity, except in great people
whose position in the world shuts one
eyes to defects, can never go hand in
hand. A well-bred man always dresses
as he behaves -properly. Morning
dresses in the country and in town differ
considerably.
In the country it is a jacket suit of
tweed or serge tdittoes," as an entire
suit of the same pattern and
material is called. With this hard.
round felt hat is always worn; tall
beaver hat never. Sunday in the coun-
try it is different Then at church-to
which every respectable man, let alone
gentleman, goes at least once-a man
Should wear a dark cloth frock or
morning coat buttoned, and tall hat.
After church, if he likes, he can change
to asuit of dittoes again. However, the
rule of black coat and tall hat at
church in the country is not as abso-
lutely followed as other rules, though a
man is always on the safe side when he
follows it.
In town, particularly during the sea-
son.. man can never appear IN the
street, in the park, at his club, or q
morning concert in other than dark
cloth frock or morning coat (buttoned.
trousers of any other color but black
light, or dark grey, or brown of any
fashionable pattern being preferable
and tall hat. To wear low crowned
hat with frock or morning coat would
stamp man directly. That this is a
thing which should never be done is
what l would especially impress upon
American gentlemen, for it. as well as
that of wearing a tall beaver hat with a
| jacket Cor ''saek," as it is called in
America) is habit which 1 have
noticed they are much addicted to.
/ know that there is prevalent idea
in America that Englishmen, in imita-
ton of the Prince of Wales (whose re-
| ported custom in that respect very
much question:, never wear gloves.
think | know something about it, and ]
say that they do wear gloves at balls
and in the street always. They don t,
however, at dinner parties, nor do they
sit, when making a call, with theil
hands cramped in gloves two or three
sizes too small for them. Cor. Sag
francisco ArgonGut.