The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-04-27
FASHIONS FOR MEN.

The very newest shirt front is of white
pique, with tiny dots OF color spr.rkled
over it.
Tweed is the thing for lounging jackets,
though alpaca will be admissible as summer
comes on.
The four in hand grows in favor, in length
also, and threatens revival of the "chokerr
of the regency.
Soft diagonal serge cloth OF brown gray
shading to yellow is much worn in Londop
for the whole suit.
For evening wear white gloves are pardo1
able, but pale primrose or paler lavender il
far and away better STYLE
In Paris, we are told, there is a strenuous
effort to revive kneebreeches, silk stockings,
low shoes and paste buckles.
New cheviots for trousers are preferably
gray or brown, and the check or stripe may
be large, but never pronounced.
High authority asscverates that many
American men, so called, now wear corsetS
| and that the practice is increasing.
For athletes come caps of printed cotton.
! with gray or navy or indigo blue grounds,
/, or polka dots of contrasting colors
Round collar and cuff ends arc hopelessly
passe, and square ones to achieve the height
of style must be artistically turned down.
No good dresser now wears tight gloves;
by consequence, seven and one-half is the
smallest size kept by some very tony houses
Very choice and new silk handkerchiefs
have centers Of solid neutral English twill,
with bright or figured borders two inches
wide.
Many percale shirts are rainbow hued yet
quiet, and modestly elegant ones can be
found for those who will not bow down to
the garing Baal
For rough weather and hard usage nothing
equals the real Donegal homespun-a cost Of
| which will turn aside the most drenching
storm of spring.
English fannels for tennis wear come in
inch square plaids of black, with white, red,
.. brown, old gold or orange, and are made up
with caps to match.
Flcnael shirts will be more worn than over.
and the favorite stuff for them il the fine
English twill-white ground with polka dot
of rea black, brown or blue.
The fayorite yachting coat is of cream
white flannel, with blue binding, showing
an inch and half wide all around and a
trihe narrower on the pockets
fOr CenulS wear WnlCe trousers SILL have
the call over stripes, and the most acceptable
sash is thirty-six inches wide and figured tn
: large spots with the club colors.
Spring neckwear, too, approaches the forid
! gothic-embracing, as it does, all light,
bright and staring tones Of color, with pro-
nou1ced, not to say loud patterns.
New cotton hose have rainbow ankle stripes
IN Il tan ground with ribs and feet of darker
.hade, while Lisle thresd show maltese
crosses on mode or black grounds
New linen handkerchiefs have eighth inch
hens either Of sSlid colors OF striped or cross
bar red, or else the border is two inches
wide. with embroidered dots at the corners.
| White collars and cuffs will again be worn
. with fancy shirts, and fine linen embroidery
still prevails in full dress, though the COM
mon grades are sent hopelessly to Coventry.
! sliding suspender buckle warranted not
to "wear, teer, rip, ravcl, run down at the
heel nor cut in the eye," even on the finest
silk webbing, is among the latest supplies of
long felt wants.
Very new waistcoats are Of natural white
wool, broken family by fine lines of red or
blue They are bound on the edge, without
collars, have six buttons and are meant to
take the place Of the pique and linen horrors,
whereby the average laundress transforms
the mildest hammered man into q man In
| buckram.-New York Commercial Adver-
| tiser.