Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-06
FASHIONS FOR MEN.
The Ls4i6t styles Are Very Much Tn
1hose Of List Winter.

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rhs I.stit styles Arc very Much rzhs
IAoss Of List Winter.
There Is very little change in the
style Of mems clothes for this winter.
The rivalry still continues between the
double breasted frock coat and the c,,t-
away The double breasted frock, or
Prince Albert, seems to be holding It's
own comfortably. Stout, Aeshy men,
who know when they have a good
thing. stick to it in spite of all the rid
icule cast on its ungainliness and Grim
oline-like qualities. Cheviots and
diagonals in dark colors are used for
frOck coats this fail.
The coat buttons close to the body
md the inner faces are lined with silk
as far as the button-holes. The edges
are finished with a narrow. fat bind
ing. The waistcoat scarcely shows,
the coat buttoning high. Light-col-
ored. striped Or plaid trousers are worn
with Prince Albert. This coat is good
for any morning or afternoon use, but
is no more appropriate or dressy at
any time than cutaway. No young
man. certainly, should wear a Prince
Albert.
The three button cutaway is perhaps
the most popular of all the coats now
made. 1t can be used for half-dress
wear or for business. This difference
should be insisted upon, however. Tho
cutaway for business wear is generally
made of rough cloth. and should al
ways have flaps at the waist seams;
the half-dress coat never has the flaps.
There is almost no change in the shape
of the three-button cutaway. Some
fOur-button coats are made now, and q
One-button one is now on the plates in
the shops. The materials used for
cutaways this winter are worsteds,
cheviots and diagonals.
The coats for business wear may DO
made in checks and stripes as dazzling
as tents players blazer, and some Of
the combinations of coats, waistcoats
and trousers already turned out are
likely to melt the snow along the avenue
next February. Striped, plaid or check
trousers, the lighter the color the bet
ter, are to be worn with these cut
awayS.
Sack coats for winter are cut mu.h
the same as the summer ones were,
and except that the cloth is heavier.
one can scarcely notice any difference.
The widest kind of patterns in plaids,
stripes and checks are still in favor,
and if the fashion-makers can help it.
there will be few men dressed in black
seen in the streets this winter. 1t is
not at all necessary to have ones trou-
sers match even a sack coat. Any one
piece of clothes may be worn with any
other, and wardrobe can thus be
easily expanded in sort of geometri-
cal progression. Waistcoats are made
up in all sorts of rough. light-colored
goods. and some of the patterns are
almost as daring and at the same time
as dazzling as the skirts of the ballet
dancers in Nero"
For light overcoat the Chester
field, or fly-front sack, is the only
style really in the field. This coat is
rather closc-fitting one, reaches
nearly to the knees and rolls open in
!ront, showing silk facings to the but
ton-holes. The heavy sack overcoats,
both single and double-breasted, will
be shaped much like the Chesterfield.
A few long frock Overcoats are still
turned out for extreme weather. They
have been largely supplanted. how.
ever, by the cape overcoats of fancy
suitings. The cape has come to stay
for awhile, apparently. though this
climate in winter is too uncertain for
so heavy and cumbersome an over
garment. A single breasted sack
overcoat is good investment for Or
binary winter use.-N. Y Herald.
POINTS FOR LADIES.