Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-02
THE FLANNEL SHIRT.

! hands.-Netg York Star.
THE FLANNEL SHIRT.
Its Complete Triumph-Styles for the
Summer.
Five or six years ago the flannel shirt
was an article of either the color of sunsets
in Northern climes or of deep blue hue of
a sailors trousers. The upper strata of
| society never thought of fireman, long
shoreman or a prodigiously bad cowboy
without forming mental picture of the
ornate flannel development of the upper
half of his body. Probably the men of
the upper strata envied him. The shirt
made the man look so thoroughly comfort
able. Butthen there was too much barbaric
| splendor about the color of the garments.
! 1t set them thinking, at any rate. Their
thoughts ran something like this: "This
| business of being obliged to pay tribute
| of suffering to a remorseless convention
ality by wearing in midsummer stiff
white shirt that melts into an insutferable
nuisance inside of two hours, and a collar
and pair of cuffs that wilt like violet be-
fore CRATE fire before we have walked
! half mile-this is a torture we have en-
dured long enough, it's an imposition upon
mankind in general, and it's got to gor'
| So they revolted.
1t was not frenzied, uncomfortable re-
volt, and there was no going to extremes.
| They based their case on an intense ap-
probation of their inalenable rights.
| They did not blossom out attired in shirts
with all the gorgeousness of hue of those
! of Turkish soldiers or Nebraska cowboys.
But if you had happened to ride on an
! elevated train in New York City, for in
stance on any day during the past two or
three summers, you would have observed
how widespread were the effects of the re-
volt. You would have seen faultlessly
| dressed young swells, who had all their
| lives been enamoreI of fancy boiled white
shirts, wearing delicately colored and
corded flannel shirts, with sailor-knot ties;
sui utstantial-looking, mi1dle-aged men,
brokers and lawyers, probably, wearing
| spCtlessly white flannel ;hirts subdued by
gray or black ties; even old men of most
| tremendous dignity, clad in somber black,
| bu5wearing flannel shirts and four-in-hand
crayats Just the same. Mingled with an
appearance of cool comfort, these men had
ook of subdued but eternal defiance, as
Though daring anybody to question their
right to wear any sort Of shirt they chose,
sir cah.
At the dinner table, at the seaside in
tha country, flannel shirts everywhere.
Ard the fiat has gone forth that the fan
mel shirt is to rule the coming summer.
and linen shirt-makers and laundrymen
aresgnashing their teeth and asking the
steely stars, "Can such things be- 1t
was only a short time ago that one of the
largest fancy shirt manufactures in the
Urited States failed on account of the
flannel shirt craze.
The flannel shirts this wear are beauti-
full in design and color, and the varieties
adapted to men of different classes and
ages are almost numberless. 1t is pre-
dicted that everybody will wear them.
What IS more sensible than an airy. COM
Portable flannel shirt, or, in fact, what
more handsome All hail its triumph!
MEMS FASHION NOTES.
Patent-leather shoes for business wear
are growing popular.
One of the new capers in fad collars is
standing neck-band with rolling points.
The tan glove is hard to kill. Light
shades are in high respect among jaunty
dressers.
Tie custom of wearing two scarf-pins
has not entirely disappeared, but is rapidly
becoming absolete.
The progress of the shirt made coat
fashion, to button all the way down in
front, is slow but steady.
Baggy trousers are not in good form in
the more stylish circles. Trousers of the
medium cut are the vogue.
1t is wrong to suppose that the silk hat
IS on the decline. Its popularity was
never greater, and is increasing all the
time.
The bath-wrap is growing in favor.
Bath-trousers, an eXpedient unknown to
Americans until quite recently, are also
coming into vogue.
A tendency in the direction of wider
shirt bosonls for full dress is showing itself. |
In that case the opening of the vest will, !
as a matter of course, be larger.
Is it proper to wear a white standing
collar with fancy-colored shirt? Whether
1t is or not many of the most fastIdious |
young men about town are doing so.
\ fashionable outftter laments the lack !
of consistency among American men as
shown by the dress worn at funerals He |
insists that only black should be worn
black clothes, black hat, black gloves, and |
dull black neckscarf.
Those whose fancy inclines to the big |
scarf-pin should, in accordance with the |
prevalent dictates of fashion, wear large |
scarfs, both as to size and pattern effects. |
With a medium or diminutive scarf a small |
jewelled pin is the proper caper.
The double watch chain craze is abating
and with it the practice of carrying the
watch in the upper pocket of the vest.
One of the late fads is long single chain,
wound in and out through the button
holes of the waistcoat and terminating at
the lower left pocket.
As general thing the tennis blazers
shown have wide stripes, but exclusive
outftters favor the narrower widths as be-
ing more fashionable. Woven goods are
more stylish as well as more costly than
the printed. The latter are French, the
former Scotch or English.
a Afnry,ny,