The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-23
HINTS FOR MEN.
Their Clothes, and How They
Should Wear Them.
Tie Time for Full Dress and What Constf-
tutes FUN Dress-When and where
Sack Coats May Be Worn.
straw and Silk Hats.

Sack Coats 5Iay Be Worn.
straw and Silk Hats
There has recently appeared little
pamphlet called when to Wear il. -
which gives much sound advice - men
about clothes. The cane is not to be car
ried during business hours, neither is it to
be worn with evening dress. 1t belongs to
outdoor exercise, and it should be omitted
always on the more formal occasions of
social life, Gold-headed canes should be
worn on every clear, cool day in the year,
and upon all occasions with full dress
Special care should be- taken that the
gloves are the best obtainable. Cheap
gloves or tattered gloves should never be
worn.
Full dress should be worn from 6
o'clock in the evening until breakfast time
the next morning, if the wearer has ne
occasion to go TO bed in the meantime A
dress suit should always De worn in the
presence of ladies III the evening The
sack dress coat should not be worn in the
presence of ladies. 1t is for use with men
and not with women II is valuable - to
preserve to the offices of the dress coat
feeling OF formality that should be allied
with ultra affairs OF polite society"
The dress shirt should be worn with the
dress suit and the double-breasted frock
coat. 1t should be opened in front and be
plainly made, with holes for real studs,
which should be worn with it. The cuffs
are part of the garment, and the launder-
ing should he done with a dull finish.
The white lawn cravat should always be
worn with the dress suit The Inverness
cape goes at night over the dress suit.
The straw hat may be worn from June
to September -. When the overcoat is
worn the straw hat is superseded. A
straw hat may be worn with the sack
dress coat, but though it has its defenders
for use with the swallowtail dress coat, it
is better to wear the tall hat. The handlIer-
chief should always be out OF sight. The
hign silk hat should always be worn with
a dOuble-breasted frock coat and swallow
tail 1t may be worn with the cutaway
coat, hut under no circumstances should
it be worn with the sack coat.
Collars and cuffs should be worn when
ever man has his coat on. The standing
collar is preferred, but it should not be
too high. This rule is laid down;
" Nothing is stylish that looks uncom-
Portable" The oravat may be worn with
the cutaway or the sack coat. Big made
up bows should not be worn with soft
finish shirts. The fOur-in-hand is recon-
mended for wear with the double breasted
frock coat and the De JOinville and Ascot
for the single-breasted cutaway. The
Windsor or the fOur-in-hand Summer
weight is recommended for Summer use
with the cravat. The De Joinville is the
leading shape, as it is not lined, and is
unpretentious though the Ascot is moro
popular, because it is more easy to tie. A
gentleman should, OF course, tie his own
scarf
The overcoat should be worn when the
temperature requires it. 1t must be
longer than the undercoat; even the swal-
lowtail must be covered with a coat longer
than the last point of the tails There
should be, if one can afford il, IN Inver-
ness to wear with the swallowtail, loose
Kersey driving coat, double-breasted
Winter coat, one light and one dark Fall
overcoat for general winter wear, and
fur-lined coat to wear when it is very cold.
No jewelry should be worn with full
dress except a set of pearl shirt studs,
three in number. A watch may be car
ried without chain. The decoration
with a dress suit is the boutonniere,
which should always be of white flowers.
The shirt studs to be worn during the day
may be of gold. The cuff links should
always be plain. A watch chain may be
worn in the day without the lockets or
charms exposed. The cravat ring, the
diamond scarf pin and the diamond collar
button shout be sent 20 the pawn shop.
A jeweled ring may be worn. a scarf
pin may be worn when the scarf needs il
TO be held together or kept in place but it
must show taste and must not be loud
The flannel shirt should not be worn in
town but for outing The negEge shirs
may be worn at all times during the Sum
mer with sack suit, and, on a pinch, is
may be worn with the cutsway coat.
The cutaway frock coat may be worn as
any time during the day. The double
breasted frock coat may be worn at any
time during the day when there is social
occasion requiring formality. 1t is the
coat for man Of leisure. It is made
severely simple, in rough goods, short
waiste,. and long tailed-Clothier and
Furnisher.