The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-02
FASHIONS FOR MEN.
What Those of the Steiner Sex
Should Wear to BE Stylish.

1t would appear that the fashion trainers
had settled down to a most conventional
scheme of patternings of suits. trouserings
and Overcoatings; indeed, for all clothing
for informal service, content to leave what
ever striking effects are to be attained to the
cut Of the garments of Quasi-formal wear.
| refer to the lorg-tail frock- coats that have,
up to date, made such small progress in this
country, although the London vogue for
several seasons past.
There are number of special cloths in
deep gray-black and lighter shades of dark
gray that were apparently woven exclusive ly
for this style of garment. which promises
to have a select run during the coming
season.
The opera hat Is a foreign renaissance
and most praiseworthy oEe-that the
American fashiOnables are slow in taking
up. In London and Paris this feasible head
gear oil evening wear is very prevalent. The
latest designs are in dull ribbed silk, and
there are others in close imitation of the
regulation tall silk hat.
There seems, by the way to be wide
range OF taste In the shapes of the tall silk
hat They are seen in the fall styles of our
own leading matters, becoming block, and
not all Outre. And there. are group of the
very fashionable men that are wearing the
pronounced bell-crowned English silk hat,
decidedly more distinguished style.
The trouserlngs that are expected in the
smooth goodS-aS the caSSlmereS and
wOrsteds are now desgnated-wlIl be en-
livened somewhat beyond those Of last sea-
son, in c0ntradstinction to the general out
look of quietude. The stripes in herring
bone will be wider, and the blues that Will
prevail will be bluer than heretofore, but
not to an extent, in the boldest flights CT
the designer. to come under the category OF
loudness.
Wool trouserings in the spripg-weghts
will have the lead. 1t would seem that the
Tough-faced fabrics, in well-defned strip
ings, had proven an Immediately successful
venture in the fall when they were tirst In
trodueed, and upon this premise large lines
OF these goods arc to be shown.
This suting material is extremely fuzzy
to the eye, ana the favorte mixtures are of
an indefinite character. There are. how
ever. line of small checks-not so small as
''pDheads," but in small squares which are
scarcely discernible when tue surface OF the
goods is ruffed under the hand.
For suitings the Scotch goods will have
the call. There is great variety OF con-
venti0nal brown and tan, the cinnamon and
burnt-umber variations OF this shade and
other extreme tlnts having run their course.
1t would be a beneficent idea for the advo-
Gates of the long-tail frock-coat if they
could think of some good name by which 1t
might De distinguished from the ITlilce Al
bert. 1t is really decidedly different gar
ment. its character being changed by the
rough-faced, pliable material used in its
construction. The variety OF colors in which
it is made. the usual finishing in silk to the
edge of the lapel and the short-waisted,
long-tail effects.
The boutonnere fad, which has reached
its zenith, has developed another tangent in
decoration, undoubtedly suggested by the
snowy effect of the bunch Of flowers in the
button-bole. Whether this Is or is not the
melting cause. 1t IS a fact that recently q