, 1888-01-26
COSTLY UNDERGARMENTs.
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dTCd Dollar Note.
New York Suul

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| New York SUM-
In = ScntEcmen'S furnishing store uo
| 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 tics, and the latest every
thing They look like brokers and are
very stylish.
This winter, the most stylish OF them
Sald. I'VE have more novelties than ever
before, and there IS really no reason why
q gentleman of refined tastes and with
| plenty Of money should not Ec very COM
l-fortable. Here's an Arctic sleeper. You
| see its made after the fashion of the sacks
| that men sleep i'll at the north pole, only
its made of the finest lambs wool, and
| tied around the neck with silken strings.
Some OF our young gentlemen are so deli
cately nurtured that ii 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 healthy
circulation on the surface and induces
sound sIumber
What are these?" the reporter asked,
pointing to what looked like ragged fur
from the back of kitten
These are the very latest driving
gloves; very ugly I'll admit, but nothing
like them in the world for warmth They
surpass sealSkin, buckskiu, 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 a 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,
and you'd never get any snow up your
sleeve. Now step back this way and I'll
show you the most beautiful thing that
you ever saw in undergarmenfs.
"Shirts and drawers?" 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 fancy box heavy
mass of knitted silk of the most beautiful
blue tint
"Now, he said as he stretched the gar
ments out into human form, isn't that
the most lovely aesthetic thing you ever
saw! w Quiz you lnink tnaL the man
could have the heart to put such work
of art on his legs? But many have, and
they go like wildfire We sell them at
800 suit, and the high price takes the
fancy of the young men who have moth
ing TO do hut spend money. We have old
millicnaires for customers, and distin-
guished statesmen as well; among the lat
ter President Arthur Well, not one
of those buys much fancy stock. They
got rich buying merino undergar-
ments at 81 or So a suit, and they
keep right on that way. It's the rich
young men who are always having
fortunes left to them that keep up the
trade. We had one young gentleman who
inherited in one year no less than three
fortunes. running from $50, 900 to $780,
000. The way he bought things that he
didn't want would have done your heart
good to see. Here's lot of plain linen
handkerchiefs. They're very fine, just
like eobwebs, and sell for $50 dozen
The young man / spoke of bought four
dozen of them, and a dozen of these
camel's hair socks. with silk heels and
toes They are only SO a pair, and very
comfortable, but why he wanted so many
can't understand, We do good business
when young men are 10 be married. They
get trousseaus as well as anybody, and
they have to pay for it Five hundred
dollars is small price for good outfit.
If you ever jump OFF, come around.