Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-05-12
eAsHloNs FoR MEN.

The very newest shirt front is of whitl
pique, with tiny dots Of a color sprinkled
| 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 a revival Of the 'choker.
Of the regency.
Soft diagonal serge cloth Of a brown gray
/ shading TO yellow is much worn in London
/ for the whole suit.
/ For evening wear white gloves are pardon
| able, but pale primrose or paler lavender Is
| 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 cheyiots for trousers are preferably
gray or brown, and the check or stripe may
be large, but never pronounced.
High authority asseverates 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,
I
Round collar and cuff ends are hopelessly
Da,-e, and square ones to achieve the height
1I style must be artistically turned down.
40 good dresser now wears tight gloves,
Ur consequence, seven and one-halt Is the
smallest size kept by some very tony houses
Very choice and new silk handkerchiefs
have centers Of solid neutral English twill,
.l.h bright or figured borders two inches
wide.
Mauy percale shirts are rainbow hUed yet
IuIer and modestly elegant ones can be
,Juud for those who will not bow down to
me glaring Baal.
For rough weather and hard usage nothing
equals the real Donegal homespun-a coat Of
which will turn aside the most drenching
torm Of spring.
English Aannels for tennis wear come in
.cu square plaids Of black, with white, red,
rowu, old gold or orange, and are made up
,,I caps to match.
Flannel shirts will be more worn than ever
s.J the favorte stuff for them is the fine
english twill-white ground with polka dot
Dt re4 black, brown or blue
The lavorite yachting coat is of cream
white flannel, with a blue binding, showing
m inch and a half wide all around and
rifle narrower ON the pockets.
For tennis wear white trousers still have /.
The call over stripes and tine most acceptable .
sash is thrty-six inches wide and figured in .
large spots with the cIGb rOlOrs.
Spring neclwear, too, approaches the dorid
gorhic-embracing, as 10 does, all light,
bright and staring tones of color with pro
louuccd not to say loud patterns.
New cotton hose Hayeraiubow ankle stripes
IN tan ground with ribs and feet of darker
shade, whiic Lille thread snow maltese
'rosseS ON mode or black grounds.
New linen haudkerchefs have eighth inch
lems either OF solid colors orstriped or cross
lar red, or else the border is two inches
vide, 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
non grades are sent hopelassly to Coventry.
\ sliding su-peuder buckle warranted not
20 swear, tear rp,ravel, run down at the
leel nor cur in the eye" even on the finest
nix webbing is among the latest supplies of
oug felt wants
Very new waistcuats are of natural white
wool, broken family by fine lines Of red or
'uc They are bound ON the edge, without
oliarS, have six buttons and are meant to
axe the place oi tAe pique and linen horrors.
whereby tae average laundress transforms
he mluest hammered man into a man in
uckau-New York Commercial Adver-
iser.