Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
A Carriage of Gentility.
THE LATEST FADs IN TRAPS AND LIv ERIEs ZOE
SMART PEOPLE.


THE LATEST FADs IN TRAPS AND LIv ERIEs ron
SMART PEOPLE.
From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The people who ride in chaises, and who
have plenty of money to keep the right sort OF
trap, have become conscious within the last
month that the red and black. green and
gold and black and yellow that have for
merly been the colors liked for carriages
are superannuated. aud must give wav 10
a blue that is not deeply, darby beautiful
but very decidedly light That the silver
mountings are no longer correct, and that
wherever a piece of metal is put il must be
brass The fashionable broughan never make
a mistake and pronounce il anything else but as
If 1t were spelled ''broom") looks very much
like an ideal sedan chair. The great glass
window that used TO be in front, as well as the
somewhat large ones at the sides, have been
succeeded by very small ones. and the brouChsm
itself is much higher than before, thus per-
uniting my lady to drive IN absolute seclusion,
for, once she leans back. no inqui-
sitiye passer-by can see who the occu-
pant is. The satin-lined coach of our grand
fathers is decidedly bad form, and nothing but
leather obtains and makes the inside of the
travelling residence look like a bonbonniere.
The handsomest trap of the day-it belongs to
the Baroness Banc-is of the favorite blue
shade the received shape. lined with leather,
and having daintily placed in it a box for the
hand-glass, ebony case for visiting
time just how long one may STAY
even at the most fascinating tea, while
the horses are a very light chestnut, closely
clipped, and kept in wondrous order. The
harness is brass-mounted and has brass chains,
but they are pulled SO tight that they do not do
that most vulgar of all things-jangle. The
flank covers are of leather, with the monogram
and a crest in brass upon them. while the
coachman and footman have blue hveries with
brass buttons showing similar decoration.
sidered, and a smart tailor has told me the
latest, which is worn, by the by. on this blue
brougham. All winter long the men viii
wear their breeches, white tops and white
gloves the top coats, of course, hide the
rest of their get-up, so that it is necessary
for them to be very erect; they are double
breasted, have velvet cuffs, ard the foot
mans coat is not only much longer than
that worn by the coachman, but it has no
pocket-laps, which are omitted 20 make him
look taller. Eighteen buttons are required
on each coat, sixteen being down the front
and two at the back. Only on very cold
days are the furs permissible, but then they
should be of black bearskin, the capes hav-
ing very high collars, while the rug must be
sufficiently large TO cover the men very
well. A skilled footman can manage the
furs to perfection, and does not need TO
make the people who are driving feel that a
household is being turned upside down every
time he opens the door and arranges for
them to get out. The folly of cockades ON
servants hats stamps itself as the result NOS
only of folly, but OF ignorance. The cockade is
permitted to those holding commissions in the
army and navy, to ministers of state,
and, of course, to the President; bus
on anybody else's turnout it suggests
ignorance and pretense combined. A
big, single horse may be driven in broughsm,
but my lady will insist upon having two men
on the box, and after all one cannot blame her
for this, as pleasing recollections Of watches
and purses stolen from carriages when no foot
men were about has made either their exist
ence a necessity, or the great truth that
woman is always careless needs to be told
few more times every DAY.