The Portland daily press., 1891-06-10
TNew York Notion I
HOW THE PRINCE OF WALES
DRESSES.
Wide Range Of Variety from his
Attire In Paris to That In the High
ICIothier and Fnrnishier. !

lCiOtnlef ana Furnlshler.]
The Prince of Wales Is Colonel of good
ness only knows how many regiments, COM
mander of countless vessels, and holds COM
missions in crack corps of dozen other
countries besides his own; it being court ETH
quette that Princes shall wear in each others
society uniforms pertaining to each others
respective 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 oc-
casions and their mess or fatigue uniform
for dining and chatting with them. Albert
Edward is splendid lightning change ar
fist In his way, and can get 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, being no
longer in the heydey of youth and little given
to martial ambition like his warlike nephew,
To be seen at his best III. r. Fl. must be
found in evening dress and in the character
of the charming man of society, which is
most naturally his. Were he not what he is,
he would be the counterpart of his American
friend, Chauncey NJ Depew, being the
cleverest afterdinner speaker in England,
AulthCilnuACs ubtC w od1 ClcFtI tuiuko III tx
quisite French and German. His character
may be readily summed up in the remark he
once made to a gentleman who asked him If
ne did not feel repugnance at visiting M.
ana p1ino Nine: ,s Garnet in company With the
piled, II don't like his Government, but he
is the head of the nation, and my friends will
Republican"
This easy going willingness to accept any
situation mt ahS0lutQlu m aicip xxyith
becoming gravity. nowhere betrays itself so
much as In his dress, which, while always
suited to his convenience and comfort, is al
ways thoroughly In harmony with his sur
ne has not been much of late, he and his sons
always compromise with the national dress
by making their tramps and hunting or fish
ing excursions clad in the garb of the canny
Scots who accompany them. At Sandring-
ham, when out of doors, the Prince usually
wears rough tweeds and corduroys, with
close-fttlng pig-skin leggings, as he is likely
to mount at any moment ana canter away to
inspect distant part of his estate. In
London, ne Is seldom seen in public in other
than perfect fitting frock coat over very
fne French cashmere trousers and with
white flower In his buttonhole. When in
Paris he usually affects three button cuta-
| or gaudy patterns at once stamp the English
| man at the French capital, reserving those
| gorgeous eccentricites into which the occa-
| sioDally plunges for Homburg or Cannes.
am In position to state that all talk or
conf acture of Prince Albert Victor's In any
way supplanting his father as a fashion
plate for the jeunesse soree is utterly idle.
People who are fond Of remarking the dis
tant heir to the throne as rising young
man forget that he is no longer boy, but
hard on the road to thirty, and that, further
| more, he is considered in England to be
about as useless and unimportant as he can
pc, lie is neither a popular society man, a
talker, a speech-maker, nor student. His
| physique is lamentably ungainly and awk.
ward. He seldom appears in public except
In company with his father, who alludes to
him as my sop," as If he were 10 years old.
marrying, but is as far off to day as ever. II
| England is ever to have another fashion
leader she must look to Prince George, who
seems to have much more important business
| to attend TO.