Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-31
Are Knee Breeche. Com,nxr

| THE GRADUAL TRANSPORTATION OF THE
DRESS sUIr-A SMELLS WARDROBE.
From the New York Sun
"Ihe past season was the most significant one
In nfty years as far as mems fashions are OOH.
cerned," said an uptown tailor yesterday, "be-
cause it showed that the oId.time and all-suffi-
clent dress suit was losing its hold. Men have
grown FESTIVE under the severe and rigid dress
sun rules OF former years. They are moving
,]oV s more elaborate costumes, and they'll
~ We watched the restlessness OF the dress
SUIT ne continued slowly, with great care,
Ior knew that as soon as the deadlock was
when knickerbockers, buckied shoes and
ruffies would come in. The nrst indication
was broad satin or silk collar and lapel for
the evening coat. This made q stir at first
Dut now three-fourths of my clients have silk
or satin lapes on their coaLs. Then came white
son made of figured silks of really gaudy pat
Terms ana further decorated with gold buttons
%earer wrought on them, and some had crests.
ihen came very significant change-the
deeorated Of 1n s.amRTsd ribbed and
most universal before the season ended
Inc Inc straight collars OF few seasons ago
We're replaced by rolling collars, and the
niue shoestring ties by broad black or white
bands; Then the coat tails were rounded
on and made smaller, and the coat drawn in at
the waist like the coats OF the eighteenth CEN
fury. saw the way things were tending and
built up some OF my shoulders with great sue
S0SS. nc tIOuseTs were lnen decorated with q
oroad satin band, and your fashionable man Of
So was properly clad. Add very low pumps
coioTed hose, and the latest wrinkle from the
Prince OF Waes-a bright red, blue or yellow
SILK handkerchief thrust into the open waist
coat front-and everything was com pIete
These are small things In detail, but very i'm.
portant as indicating the bent of fashion, A
pialniy dressed man of two seasons ago is
ecilpsed by the dandy OF to-day, with his snowy
Shlrt 'front.' dash OF color in handkerchief and
hose, dehcately tinted waistcOat, loosely tied
cravat, and high-shouldered, tight.waisted
coat"
And you think all this precedes knee
breeches?"
surely, tennis and bicycling have shown a
great many men how becoming knee breeches
are. They are infinitely more graceful than
trousers, II man has any sort Of a leg at all
NO man wears knee breeches when he PLAYS
tennis because they are comfortable because
they are not. The stockings trritate and are
exceedingly warm, and the Earters above the
khee are no END OF a nuisance. A pair of loose
manner trousers are infinitely more comforta-
pie ana convenient But the mind OF man is
Oeht on Knee breeches and the influence of
woman goes with it. Men now wear knicker-
COOKERS IN the country, though they never
toucn tennis racket or throw q leg over q
Wheei. 1t Is the result of the desire TO look pic
turesque. The Due de Morny's set in Paris has.
gone step further than New York in the mat
Ter OF evening attire. They now wear-or at
least did during the Observation-Disclosures trousers
anu DluelSh dress coats with gold buttons
"nen our young society men get to that point
ana IL would not surprise me to see it done next
season, can dress shapely man SO that he
VIII be mt to stand comparison with the dan
dies OF the last century,"