The Newtown bee., 1890-03-28
FRIDAY, MARCH as, 1890.
Gentlemen,s Spring Fashions.

Gentlemen's Spring Fashions.
 The average male man would have you be- heve that only women arc concerned with the changing fashions of the hour, but, after all, 1t Is not alone the dude who is interested in tho novelties of the season's wear Even if a man does not expect to follow the mandates Of fashion, he likes toknow what is the proper thing In dress and how it looks, great and growing clothing house, like that of Meigs X Co, whore Bank cuts Main in Bridgeport, is Q good place to examine into styles and makes and thero the BEE found genial Manager Bell
 He snatehed Q moment from busy day to sny that black cheviots and serges are worn n deal and light. invisible plaids. Stripes arc still affected by young men, some of the light plnids being quite loud. The sack coat is still the Summer wear for business and outdoor recreation, coats being cut to the figure clos CT than last season. Getaways are for dress occasions, as usual, the skirts being longer and fuller than last season and not cut away as sharply, but continue down almost on a straight line until the corners arc rounded away. It is needless to say that everything that any taste could desire Is at the command ot Manager Bell.
 Spring oversacks are in lightish browns and cream colors, though many prefer dark wide wale and green shades. The CIothier and Furnisher reports top coats made box like and loose.
 When tho season opens later, Meigs X Co. will make a speciality of tennis suits, blazers and outing goods generally, made to order in their own house Ut Boston. A waist belt is considered essential in outing attire. They have Just made 35 uniforms for the High school cadets, a dark blue suit with inch and aq quarter braid, brass buttons and B. IT. $. C.. on the natty caps.
 Pantaloons are now Of medium width, ls or 10 inches nt tho knee, in stripes and plaids, with many in the light colors that are to pre- wall to considerable extent, this season.
 Vests admit of little change, but some arc silk figured to meet certain tastes.
 A new lSinl in childrcn's clothing is pair ot extra pants and hat to match the suit. There arc light suits for children and boys, for the juveniles arc copying mems clothing closely nowadays. Meigs & Co. carry an i'm mense line of the mothers friend shirt waists. For the little boys not yet grown to pants there arc novelties in kilts and clothing in Jersey goods for the lad who has taken that final step out ot babyhood. The little man m Lord Fauntleroy suit, with red sash and Tam Q Shantnr, is just too cunning tor anything. The larger boys can be suited here from very largo line of light cheviots, with wide vale worstoda for fine dress suits With these
  taloous The Lord Fauntlcroy Is to be crowd. od out, they say, by the Prince, the hero oi Mark Twain's pretty romance, "The Prince and Paupor" shirts are n specially with Meigs X Co. Novelties In tony shirts are those opening nll the way down the front like coat and fitted tO the figure; also white shirts with sateen fronts for business and street wear Plain white shirts, however, have recovered their supremacy, though an immense sale is reported in negllgcc shirts of all popular ma torials. The fine dress shirt which Meigs X Co. find SO popular Is the Columbia. There are corded linen bosoms and satin stripes with the white pique fronts of last year Out ing shirts are to be in French flannel, zephyrs and eheviots, for tennis, boating and kindred sports, with ties and four in hands to match Inc finer grndes.
 The correct collar for evening dress Is Q straight up standing collar as high Is com. fortable, with ends just meeting in front. The collar of medium height is most worn for gen, eral dress, both with turnover point and straight. The Cabinet brand has proved an attractive feature with Meigs Co., also the Earl X Wilson for n fine collar. which sells nt 2S cents in the United States, but costs B cents in England. Tho turned over collar seems yearly disappearing from view.
 Tecks and tourin- hands continue popular in neckwear and blue is reported by a trade journal as the ruling color, running from a steel to dark blue, with fanciful hgurinss of q tasteful character. White grenadines are shown, with colored figures and fine vines running through them; also neckwear in silks and striking plaids and stripes.
 Underwear Is in fine merino and bhlbriggnn for Summer wear in all the leading makes i; also light wool goods
 Half hose appears in striking and showy patterns in plaids and stripes,
 Meigs < Co. carry Il complete line of linen and cotton handkerchiefs, umbrellas, canes, suApenders and the like. A silk Japanese handkerchief Is very neat.
 The Novelty hat, second cousin to the Even ing Sun and World, is a new soft hat with mar TOW, medium and wide brim, with soft creas cd crown. Meigs X Co. also show the leading blocks In Dunlap, Yeomans, Miller and VII. cox hats, some of which have n straighter brim than before. They make X specially of Rsl 50 hat, all fur, strictly fast color and silk trimmed; many retail them at $2. In child ren's hats, Tam Q Shanters are worn by boys from two and n half to six years old, new jockey caps with pleated fronts by boys from sexon to l2 and Derby stiff hats for the older boys.
 Trunks and bags await your call for use in vacation or travel.
 Meigs < Co. manufacture all their own nov. cities at their Boston house and, practically all the clothing in their store. Their gener- ous advertising in the BEE and elsewhere coupled with taste and hard work have doub led their business, which is moro widespread than Is generally realized, embracing some oi the largest stores in the country and reaching away out Co the great Northwest at St. Paul and Minneapolis.