Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-05
FASHIONS FOR MEN.

The very newest shirt front is of white piuue, with tiny dots of 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 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 cheviots 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, or polka dots of contrasting colors.
 Round collar and cuff ends are 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 handzerchiefs have centers of solid neutral English twill, with bright or figured borders two inches wide.
 Many percale shirts are rainbow hued yet vy,O1nct1u olorant Ina found for those who will not bow down to the glaring Baal.
 For rough weather and hard usage nothing equals the real Donegal homespun-a coat of which will turn aside the most drenching storm of spring.
 English flannels 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. Flannel shirts will be moro worn than ever, and the favorite stuff for them is the fine English twill-white ground with polka dot of red, black, brown or blue.
 The favorite yachting coat is of cream white flannel, with a blue binding, showing an inch and half wide all around and a | trihe narrower on the pockets. For tennis wear white trousers still have the call over stripes, and the most acceptable sash is thirty-six inches wide and figured in 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- nounced, not to say loud patterns
 New cotton hose have rainbow ankle stripes on tan ground with ribs and feet of darker shade, while Lisle thread show maltese crosses on mode or black grounds.
 New linen handlzerchiefs have eighth inch hems either of solid colors or striped or cross bar red, 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.
 A sliding suspender buckle warranted not to "wear, tear, rip, ravel, 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 faintly 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 man in buckram.-New York Commercial Adver. | tiSer