The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-17
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Gorgeous Raiment OF Rich Young
Man and What Il Generally Costs.

Gorgeous Raiment OF a Rich Young
Man and What II Generally Costs.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The cost Of turning a young man out
fashionably is not whit less great than
that Of arraying his frou frou sister. When
he opens his eyes in the morning that ex-
pensive young gentleman slips one arm out
Of bed and presses the electric button which
| summons his valst; the arm with which he
rings is clothed all in silk, for he has slun-
bered in q suit OF Indian pajamas, which
has cost him s75 and is one OF the most
beautiful fabrics possible to imagine. He
has SIX OF these at the same price
and OF all the colors of the rain
bow, cream, rose tendre, bleu ciel, pearl
white, lilac, sea water green and the palest
tones of lemon. Each one of them being
beautifully embroidered with trailing vines
on cuffs and collar, pocket and flap. The
valet brings him his cocktail; after drinking
1t he slips out of bed and into a pair Of
japanese slippers made of silk, with gold
embroidery upon the pointed toes. His
valet holds coat Of heavy black silk, lined
with pale blue, into which he thrusts his
arms and marches off to the dressing-room
followed by his attendant, who has all the
shaving apparatus ready and who proceeds
TO deity remove the nights growth of
beard. The coat that he wears for the cere-
mony cost him s35, has heavy cord about
the edge, and is fastened across the front
with silk frogs.
The next journey is to the bath room, and
here he finds bath robe hanging across the
chair, which he proceeds to put on after his
man has finished rubbing him down with
cologne and he wishes to return to his dress
ing room. There is a choice of some half
dozen of these bath robes. most Of them be-
ing OF fine Turkish toweling, striped in deli
cate colors, bound around the waist with a
cord. and costing SIS apiece; but he also has
other handsomer ones OF white flannel en-
broidered with silk and lined with pink
lambs fleece, and for these he pays $50.
When he returns to the dressing room the
attendant has ready for him a complete
suit of silk. If the weather is very warm
these two pieces and the stockings are as
fine and as light as a cobweb, for which, in
colder weather, the valet substitutes others
or varying thickness, for he has all weights
up to the very heaviest. Next comes the
shirt, which is of linen throughout In every
part, he having returned in this to the ideas
OF the swell men of fifty years ago, who
would on no account allow any portion of
this garment to be made of cotton. There
is long row of shoes for him TO choose
from, twenty or thirty pairs in all, and it
depends very much upon what he intends
to do as to which he will choose. IL he
means to stay lounging in his room he will
slip the silk clad feet into pair OF patent
leather slippers tied with broad black rib
bon. If he is in the country and means to
play tennis after breakfast the shoes will
be of pig skin, somewhat pointed at the
toes, aud tied with very broad laces There
are patent leather ties if he is going down
town to business, boots if he means to ride,
or if he contemplates morning calls his
shoes will be of patent leather, and with
them he will wear snowy plque spats.
If he is in the country and means to play
tennis he will, after putting on his pig skin
shoes, over long, gray-ribbed; heavy silk
stockings, complete his costume with white
flannel knee breeches, white silk shirt and
pale gray coat; a waist sash of the same
shade OF surah will be wound four times
around his waist, and he will crown
his locks with little gray felt
tennis hat, for the very exclusive young
man has revolted against the brilliancY
of the blazer and the beribboned sura " hat
Since AIRY has taken it up and wears it to
Coney Island and Ocean Grove nothing but
gray and similar quiet tints are permitted
in his costume upon the tennis court, If he
means to lounge in his room for an hour or
two to answer the many notes and letters
| that come to him with his breakfast tray,
he will dress himself up to the point of shirt
and trousers, and will then get into brown
cashmere coat, lined with pale lemon
colored silk, or perhaps his favorite rose
| color; the coat cost him anywhere from $50
to SIS. There are lots OF velvet dressing
robes put away somewhere, but those are
for winter use and too heavy for this season
of the year. They cost all the way from
| $75 to $3.50. and are very magnificent,
indeed, but are packed away for the sum-
mer in chests of perfumed cedar wood,
along with his furs and his winter clothes
| He is likely to spend a good part of his
| lounging hour in unpacking, or rather
watching his valet unpack, box just come
from the custom house which contains his
new colored evening coat, for when the
papers were full of the story of the beauti-
| full ball in Paris given by Madame la Com
Jesse de Kaisant, at which the men wore
| colored coats. ali the fashionable young
men in New York promptly cabled across
to the other side an order for similar ones.
| This particular coat is lovely shade OF
rose color, lined with silk of the same. The
owner Of it has a touch of Spanish
blood in his veins and he knows
how becoming rose color is to his
pale olive skin and black eyes. 1t will not
be worn until he goes to Newport later in
the season, but meantime, he puts it on to
try the effect and Is nightly pleased there
with. With this coat he will wear the
black satin knee brooches and waistcoat,
silk stockings and buckled shoes, which he
along with Bobby Hargous, Jack Furmann
and Jack Aston wore to the Aston ball last
winter. The coat itself Is cut like the
ordinary black evening coat, but has gill
buttons, and with it he will wear a very
| nigh white collar and a very broad white
tie, and it is probably the enthusiasm
created by this aurora colored carmen
| which hos movad him To n new and eudda,
burst of extravaganza and the aforemen
toned cablegram to his tailor with tn
order for sixteen more new suits to coun
terbalancs the perspective evening splen
doris.
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