Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-10
ON THE TENNIS COURTS.
How Young Men Should Dress for
Handling the Racquet.

From the New York Tribune.
For lawn tennis wear the tailors and dealers
IN athletic and sporting goods are now exhibit
ing designs of flannel, applied to which beau
tiful is the best adjective. The narrow stripes
are seen in the greatest variety and will I'M
doubtedy be most worn during the season OF
1890. The evolution of the lawn-tennis cos
tune has ended in the almost universal adop-
ton Of the bright-striped blazer and cap, worn
with white flannel trousers. Most n-tennis
clubs have club colors, and the members use
them for their blazers and caps, and the college
undergraduates who play wear the colors Of
their respective alma matters. Checked and
polka-dotted blazers and caps are to be had,
but they have not been much worn, and there
are no indications that they will be worn dur
ing 1890
The man who plays with his ''best girl" only
and is not a member of a club or an expert
can get himself up as he pleases, and instead
of the gorgeous blazer and cap he can, If he
likes. wear those garments OF spOtless white.
Another sort OF material that will suggest itself
to him is the white serge and flannel through
which run narrow lines of black, blue, red,
brown and other colors. These designs can be
had in endless variety, and some players are so
devoted to them that they use them for cap.
coat, trousers and all. For headdress, the
r,
pattern and material, is correct" Those
who wear white jacket instead OF q blazer
often brighten up the costume a bit by having
a cap OF some startling color and design. In
dividuals outside of clubs wear and will pro-
badly continue to wear tue Tam-o' -Shanter aud
the felt tennis hat, but these are not really
good FORM"
The trousers, whether of the white flannel
or of the tine-lined material, should be full of
length and loose enough not to prevent free
and easy motion. though not 80 ample as to
be baggy and get i'll the way. 1t IL wise pre-
caution, taken by many players, to have the
trousers cut extraordinarily long to allow for
shrinking. Until they have been washed d
few times they can be worn turned up at the
bottoms. The trousers should be supported
with a silk tennis belt with an S-shaped hook,
or with silk sash. II the belt il worn 1t
should in color he like the blazer, but more
latitude is permitted in sashes. Men OF good
taste avoid startling belts and give the gor-
geous Roman striped sashes wide berth.
SOMETHING ABOUT SHIRTS.
The shirt worn for tennis during the coming
season will be of soft flannel striped in pattern
and i'll color somewhat lighter than the blazer
Nothing i'll direct contrast to the blazers colors
should be worn, but bearing this in mind no end
OF pretty shirts can be found. The shirt should
have a watch pocket at the right-hand and a
large handkerchief pocket on the left 1t should
have a turn down collar not over broad and
with 1t should be worn a necktie OF the -four
INLAND or ''muggadore" pattern. Above all
things, the necktle should not be ready made
Low shoes with pyramid rubber white felt
socs should be worn. by most clubs ordinary
shoes are not permitted on the courts and the
prohibition is wise for the hard soles and heels
tear up the turf in short order. The most popu-
lar shoes are those made of white canvas or soft
brown leather. The rubber soles have been
more worn than the felt and will probably be
this year. For iounglng between sets the regu-
lar athletic sweater" sort of heavy woollen
jersey, is much worn. 1t is likely to be super
seeded before the end Of the season by sort OF
tennis covert coat made of striped flannel The
new garment is much easier to get on and of
than the sweater" and it is decidedly better
to look at 1t should like the covert coat, be
made to button close around the throat with a
strap.