Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-20
Fancies for Men of Fashion.

From the New York World
Black silk half hose with white soles is a
favorite autumn design.
Terra Gotta and tan-brown shades lead all
others in plain merino hosiery.
Fob chains with full dress is quite the go.
As little gold as possible, however, should be
exposed.
Ox-blood red is stylish color in neckwear.
Blue grounds with foulard figures are also in
demand.
The polka dot isn't dead yet. 1t continues
TO hold Its own In both neckwear and hand
kerchiefs
The fad, brought over from London, of
wearing two scarf pins at the same time, ha 8
met with cool reception in New York
Broadcloth, as a material for dress suits is
going out of fashion. West-of-England cloth
and fine imported diagonals have superseded
it.
Tie satin vest is in the heyday of popu-
larity. 1t is worn plain or figured, as fancy
suggests. Silk vests in various shades and col
ors are also popular.
The introduction Of the big puff scarf is well
coined by the lover of jewelry, who can now
wear pins OF any magnitude or any degree of
brllliancy without inviting criticism.
The Inverness top coat is no longer consid-
cred the proper covering for full-dress suit
An English cape-ulster. with snug-fitting
sleeves, is the correct article this winter
Many swell dressers are affecting fondness
open all the way down in front and are held
together by means of buttons OF loop hooks.
Calf-skin boots are held by few high-art
dressers to be the correct accompaniment to a
full-dress suit. The majority. however, will
cling to the conventional patent-leather gaiter
The cream-white muff1er of last winter will
be retained for the coming season, althoug h
the popular verdict leans toward darker
grounds. Light grounds, with tints or dark
figures, are elegant also.
A few daring dudes persist in wearing q
silken sash In lieu of a vest on full-dress occa-
slons. Correct dressers eschew the practice,
contending that it destroys simplicity, the very
first effect to be sought in the wearing of even
ing costume.
Young men are taking more kindly to the
silk hat this season than for many seasons past.
Fashionable matters say the New York styles are
preferred to the London makes even by pro-
fessed Anglomaniacs. The London fall silk
hat is too skinny for most people.
The Prince Albert frock coat is hard to
down, but it is eschewed, as a rule, by STYLISH
dressers, except by elderly men or by young
men on extremely formal occasions. At dav
receptions OF every character, as well as at we'd
dings, funerals or for street wear, the three
button or four-button cutaway has the sanction
of general adoption.
1t is the proper caper this season to tie ones
evening cravat. the made up bow being con-
sidered too prim and conventional. The twice
around band of white lawn fastened at the
throat in the form of a neglige fat knot, is the
vogue among men of taste. To wear a satin
tie with full dress is considered an unshrivable
sin against dress etiquette.
The growing popularity of embroidered
and dotted pique bosoms in dress shirts is
alarming the preceptOrs of fashion. especially
those of the conservative school, These men
hold that none other than plain linen bosoms
should be worn. The gay men-about-town,
almost without exception. are showing an aver
sion to the severe plainness of unadorned
shirt fronts. They favor speckled effects even
in preference to the embroidered designs.
New York importers are making heavy raids
on the English nd French markets for fancy
fannels for shirtings. The flannel shirt which
was SO popular during the past summer has
obtained such firm hold upon the public favor
that it will be introduced on much larger
scale next season. The most outre effects in
stripes and checks will be the rule rather than
the exception. Many of the linen-shirt manu-
facturers have suffered greatly from the popu-
larity of flannel shirts, and. as matter Of self
protection, are preparing to manufacture both
kinds in future.