The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-29
FASHIONS FOR MEN.
With the Spring Their Fancy
Turns To Dress AS Well AS
Love.

The full dress suit has recently been
brought to about the smartest phase of
its career. 1t is to be made with the
lapel lower down than heretofore-just
passing above the square cut of the coat
in front about two inches. The lapel is
made of the best quality dull-1nish gros-
grain silk, adducing a most dressy finish.
The white waistcoat Is f~onr-button 90.
double-breasted, and, Of cour Sc, there is
a most distingue display Of shifting,
extra width. having perfectly plain collar
and cuffs attached. and necessitating the
employment Of three shirt studs of silver,
white enamel. pearls mounted st nd fash
ion, or, the sewed-on mother of pearl
small button on the inside lap of the
| bosom, which best matches the buttons
of the waistcoat and Is the most consist
ent combination that is Wanted. The
Jrouser are creased, and are slightly mar
rover, and there Is a hpicai pressing OF
the coat sleeves in c%reases, by some OF
! the extreme votaries of the extreme
fashion.
The mod sh top-coats are those In dark
| gray cloth faced to the edges in silk and
cut straight-buttoning fly front, and
having enough length to suitably bal
ance the roomsome hang OF the garment,
| There is a new top-coat that is in the
nature OF q frock, which buttons in a fly
front to the waist. The cut in the back
is roomsome to give a skirt effect; but
there is only a suggestion Of Tails in
the plaits down the sides and centre
seams. 1t is a clever top-coat and may
be worn with double-breasred frock.
There are those extra fine Covert cloths
that cannot be initiated by the cheap
t~ailors-that are similarly shaped-of
! course having no silken facing-one made
especially low in the lapel and looser in
the fly front than the average was a snap
PLY smart coat for spring; the coioring
IS mode.putty-grsy brown, of the Covert
ings out of the pale Of successful tmita-
ton.
The cutaway underooats in rough black
cloth and light weight are made tight to
the figure, three-buttoned, long in the
waist to the lower button, the upper but
ton being lower lib the lapel to show the
flowing ends Of the fine neck scarfs-
showing also the prevalence OF what the
Londoners call the toothpick coat tail. 1t
is a smartish, semf-tormal garment, and
veriffes that the maeStroS of tailOrdom
are still equal to supplying the demands
of their ultra clientele with satisfying
conceptions.
There can be NO denying that there is a
gradual working in of the spring sn1tiDgs
in more marked p~atGernin2s. There have
been a number Of sack suitings ordered
by men who choose correctly in three
button sacks to wear with the business
shirt for the town, which are in light
grays and tans, which disclose, upon in
spection, a well-deined, wide plaid de-
sign in self-coloring. The lapel is well
cut down. that the shirt pattern nay be
given a fair show, and a black satin era
vat surmounrs the white attached stand
ing collar, although the attached cuffs are
In the shirt material.
The Japanese, that have sold for several
seasons past so muc OF the Habat1n silk
fabrics for silk shirts, q for the shirt
waists of the fair sex, nave ventured into
the realm of in an Offering of
neckwear silks. and some OF the European
makers have outjapped the Japs them
selves In the wonderfully ~Japanesque
creations in colorings, designs and color
blendings of an entirely unique character,
fulfilling in the output the wonderfully
adept conceptions which that great nation
of colorists in weirdly beautiful combina-
tions and juxtapositious of tints have
ranked first iii the world among civilized
nations.-CLotbter and FuTniSher,