The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-11
HOW TIE PRINCE or WALES DRESSES
A Wide Range of Variety From This Attire
in Paris to That in the Highlands.

The Prince of Wales is colonel of goodness
only knows how many regiments, commander
of countless of vessels and holds commissions
in crack corps of a dozen other countries be-
sides his own; 1t being court etiquette that
Princes shall wear in each others
society uniforms pertaining TO each
in compliment to the officers of
any ship or regiment he may happen TO visit,
the Prince Of Wales must wear their full uni
form for dress occasions and their mess or
fatigue uniform Tor dining and chatting with
them Albert Edward is a splendid lightning
change artist iB his way and can get in and
out OF any amount OF paraphernaIl in the
course Of a day and evening.
He IS an imposing figure in Uniform, but
makes rather weghty soldier, being no
longer IN the heydey of youth and little
given TO martial ambition like his warllke
nephew. 70 be seen at his best II. r. II
must be found in evening dress and III the
character of the charming man OF society,
which IS most naturally his. Were he not
what he Is. he would be the counter
part of his American friend, Chauncey
VI. 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
gentleman who asked him II he did not feel a
repugnancc at visiting NJ and Mime. Carnotin
company with the Princess when in Paris.
"Why?' he replied. II don't like his govern
ment. hut he is the head of the nation. and
my friends viii scarcely worry for fear OF my
becoming republican"
This easy-gOing willingness to accept any
situations not absolutely compromising with
becoming gravity nowhere betrays itself so
much as in his dress, which, while always
suited TO his convenience and comfort, IS
!. y, L.
rOundngs N Scotland where, by the way,
Ee has not been much of late, he and his sons
always compromise with the national dress by
making their tramps and hunting or fishing
excursions clad in the garb of the canny Scots
who accompany them. At Sandringham
when out of doors, the Prince usually
wears rough tweeds and cordurOys. with
close-ftting pig-skin leggings, as he
is likely to mount at any moment and
canter away TO inspect a distant part Of his
estate. In London heis seldom seen in public
in other than a petect-httlng trock coat over
very fine French cashmere trousers and with
a white flower in his buttonhole. When in
Paris he usually effects a three~buttOn cuta-
way and trouses Of IL dark material. as light or
gaudy patterns at once stamp the Englsman
at the French capital, reserying those gorgeous
eccentrlcltes INTO which he occasionally
plunges for Homburg of Cannes.
am in a position 10 state That all talk or
conjecture of Prince Albert NictOr's IN any
way supplanting his father as a fashion plate
for the jeunesse doree is utterly idle.
People who are fond of remarking the
distant heir TO the throne as a rising young
man forgot that ne is no longer boy, out
hard on the road to thirty, and that, further
more, he is considered in England to be
about as useless and unimportant as
be can well be- He is neither popular
society man, a talker, speech-maker, nor
a STUDENT. His physique is lamentabiy un-
public except il company with his father.
who aludes to him as my son" as II he were
ten wears old. He is always rumored to be on
the point of marrying, but IS as far on to-day
AZ ever If England is ever to have another
fashion leader she must lookto Prince George,
who seems to have much more important bus
mess to attend tO.-Clothier and turnisher.