The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-11
COSTLY ENTERTAINMENTS.
Suits that Knock the Spots Out of a Hun.
drfd Dollar Note.

In a gentlernen's furnishing store up
town, near the Fifth Avenue hotel, many
wealthy and stylish men buy their linen
and ties. The clerks there wear the latest
collars, the latest ties, and the latest every
Thing. They look like brokers and are
very stylish.
&This winter, the most stylish of them
said. "we have more novelties than ever
before, and there is really no reason why
b gentleman of refined tastes and with
plenty OF money should not be very COM
portable. Here's an Arctic sleeper. You
see It's made after the fashion Of the sacks
that men sleep in at the north pole, only
It's made Of the finest lambs wool, and
tied around the neck with silken strings
Some Of our young gentlemen are so deli
cateIy nurtured Ahat slight cold might
be disastrous. They slide into this, and
are protected utterly, no possible danger
Of slipping their feet out from under the
covers. The wool has slightly irritating
effect on the skin, that produces a healthy
circulation on the surface and induces
sound slumber."
"What are these?" the reporter asked
r. lting to what looked like ragged fur
from the back of q kitten.
"These are the very latest driving
gloves; very ugly, I'll admit, but nothing
like them In the world for warmth. They
eurpass sealskin, bucksldn, and every
thing of the kind. They consist of a
background of knitted silk, covered inside
and out with the fine silky hair taken
from the belly of a raccoon, not the
coarse, outer hair, but the fine downy fur
that grows beneath. Eleven dollars pair
we sell them for, and 200 pairs are out
already. There are those tobogganing
gloves, made in London and shipped to
Canada. They're just out, tight at the
wrist, you see, and running way up over
your overcoat to your shoulders. You
could slide down from the top of Mont
Blanc, head first, with a pair of those on,
sleeve. Now step back this way and I'll
show you the most beautiful thing that
you ever saw in undergarments.
~Shirts and drawers2" inquired the re.
porter.
Yes, but don't call them that in this
store, you'd hurt our more refined custom.
Call them undergarments. Now look at
this.
He drew out of a fancy box heavy
mass of knitted silk of the most beautiful
blue tint
snow, !" he said as he stretched the gar
ments out into human form, isn't that
the most lovely aesthetic thing you ever
could have the heart to put such work
Of art on his legsP But many have, and
they go like wildfire. We sell them at
800 q suit and the high price takes the
fancy OF the young men who have moth
ing to do but spend money. We have old
millionAires for customers, and distin-
guished statesmen as WE'LL among the lat
ter President Arthur. Well, not one
Of those buys much fancy stock. They
got rich buying merino undergar.
ments at a or So a suit, and they
keep right on that way. It's the rich
goung men who are always having
fortunes left to them that keep up the
trade. We bad one young gentleman who
Inherited in one year no less than three
fortunes. running from $50, 900 to $780,
900. The way he bought things that he
didn't want would have done your heart
good to see. Here's lot of plain linen
hcndkerchiefs. They're very fine, just
like cobwebs, and sell for $50 dozen.
The young man spoke of bought four
dozen of them, and dozen of these
camePs hair socks, with silk heels and
toes. They are only SO pair, and very
comfortable, but why he wanted so many
] can't understand, We do good business
when young men are to be married. They
get trousseaus as well as anybody, and
they have to pay for it. Five hundred
dollars Is a small price for q good outfit.
II you ever jump off, come around.