Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-09
HOW THE PRINCE OF WALES DRESSES
A Wide Range of Variety from this At
tire in Paris to that in the Highlands
ClOthier and FnrniShsr.

CLOtlter ana FkFnlSneF.
The Prince of Wales is Colonel of
goodness only knows how many reyi-
ment, commander of countless vessels,
and holds commissions in crack corps OF
a dozen other countries besides his own;
it being court etiquette that Princes
shall wear in each others society uni
forms pertaining to each others reSpec-
tive dominions. While in compliment
to the officers Of any ship or regiment
he may happen to visit, the Prince OF
Wales must wear their full uniform for
dress occasions, and their mess or
fatigue uniform for DINING and chat
ting with them. Albert Edward is a
splendid lightning-change artist in his
way, and can set in and out OF any
amount of paraphernalia in the course
of day and evening.
He is an imposing figure in uniform,
but makes rather weighty soldier, be-
ing no longer in the heydey of youth
and little given 10 martial ambition like
his warlike nephew. To be seen at his
best H. r. II. must be found in evening
dress and in the character Of the charm
ing man of society, which is most natur-
ally his. Were he not what he is, he
would be the counterpart OF his Amer
lean friend, Chauncey NJ. Depew, being
the cleyerest after-dinner speaker in
England, and furthermore able to say
clever things in exquisite French and
German. His character may be readily
summed up in the remark he once made
TO a gentleman who asked him IL he did
not feel a repugnance at visiting NJ. and
Nine. Carnot in company with the Prln-
cess when in Paris. "Why?" he replied,
Il don't like this government, but he is
the head of the nation, and my friends
will scarcely worry for fear OF my be-
coming Republican"
This eaSy-gOing willingness to accept
any situation not absolutely cOmpro-
missing. with becoming gravity, no
where betrays itself so much as in his
dress, which, while always suited to his
convenience and comfort, is always
thoroughly in harmony with his sur
roundingS In SEQ land, where, by the
way, he has not been much of late, he
and his sons always compromise with
the national dress by making their
trampS and hunting or fishing excur-
sicnS clad in the garb of the canny
Scots who accompany them. At San
dringham, when out of doors, the
Prince usually wears rough tweeds and
corduroyS, with cloSs-ftting pig-skin
leggings, as he is likely to mount at
any moment and canter away to inspect
a distant part of the estate. In Lon
don he is seldom seen in public in any
other than perfect-fitting frock coat
over very fine French cashmere trous-
ers and with a white flower in his but
tonhoie. When in Paris he usually
effects a three-buoton cutaway and
trousers of dark material, as light or
gaudy patterns at once stamp the Eng
liShman at the French capital, reserv-
ing those gorgeous eccentricitieS into
which he occasionally plunges for
Hamburg or Cannes.
/ am in position to state that all
talk or conjecture of Prince Albert Vic
tors in any way supplanting his father
as fashion plate for the jeunesSe
doree is utterly idle. People who are
fond of remarking the distant heir to
the throne as rising young man forget
that he is no longer boy, but hard on
Ou tuC IOdu w unity, duu tHdI, LUZ 9hoi
more, he is considered in England to be
as useless and unimportant as he can
well be. He is neither popular society
man, talker, Speechmaker, nor a
student. His physique is lamentably
ungainly and awkward. He seldom APP
pears in public except in company with
his father, who alludes to him as ''my
son." as if he were ten years old. He is
always rumored to be on the point OF
marrying, but is as far off to day as
ever. If England is ever to have an
other fashion leader she must look to
Prince George, who seems to have much
more important business to attend to.