The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-22

Many Pc7cocks-ConventionA Black
viii at Last be Laid and the Groom ut .
Wedding will Not be Overshadowed BY
the Bride.
New York, Sep. 21.-Dress suits here
after may be OF plum hue II is ratn-
er startling, but the matter is seriously
presented TO the consideration of the
public at the semi-annual exhibition
OF the Merchant Tailor's Society that
opened today. at No. 2i1 Fifth avenue
These exhibitions OF styles for men
do not always set the stylish pace,
but they invariably present some sur
prising novelties for public considera-
ton. Coats. trousers, waistcoa;s. and
overcoats Of the proper winter cut
hung today in profusion in the rooms.
and excited dudes ran in and began ex-
amining them as soon as the doors op-
ened.
The prize exhibits were securely fas-
tened 10 the building
The chief fact that struck visitors
was that this season the skirts OF cut
away coats are much shorter than they
were last. The tails come 10 an abrupt
termination just too late 10 afford the
spectator a fair view of the rear suS-
pender buttons of the wearer. This
saves a good deal of cloth but il makes
the cutaway look like a sack coat that
has had the corners shipped OF.
n man doesn't have to so through the
preliminary operation OF lifting his
skirts before he sits down This style
of coat Will look just as bad on fat
citizen as ii did last year.
Dress suits come this year in diago-
nails and undreSsed worsteds. In broad
cloth they come only from Podunk and
West Hoboken. One tailor will appear
in a new sort of evening apparel 1t is
a plum colored diagonal. with a chang
able lining that flashes tints of blue
and purple alternately at the astonish-
ed beholder. The coat and the waist
coat have velvet collars, and there is
a double stripe of braid down the legs
of the trousers. The designer has ask
ed all first class customers 10 agree
10 appear in this dazzling sort of Sarb
and feels hopeful that his luck will be
good
The ordinary overcoat will be much
shorter than last year, but the surtout
or excessively long overcoat that is SO
well adapted 10 conceal the cerulean
fact that the wearer not long ago spill
ed pint OF table d'bote claret over
his lavender trousers, Will be as long
as ever. There will be loose cuffs on
the sleeves OF the coaching coats, just
as they were last year.
Though cutaways and ordinary coats
are made shorter, there viii be no re-
ductlon in the length OF time fashiona-
bic tailors Will wait for their money.
While the prevailing tones are dark
with brown and green mixtures, covert
come in tints ranging all the way from
an opaque breadand-butter color TO
the delicate shade of the best Philadel-
phia scrapple. Covert coats are much
shorter than before and they are single
brasted, with fly fronts, lap seams. five
rows OF stitching on the seams, two
Sits six inches long on the sides. five
buttons in front, and with tabs on the
collar.
Dear me Charley" said one visitor
isn't that covert coat perfectly lovely
But it's got five rows OF stl;chings on
the cuffs and / heard the best people
were going 10 have six"
Nonsense, Clarence" the other re-
piled. You must be mistaken. No
man with any pretensions to style
would make such break as 10 have
six rows. Why. the idea is positively
indecent
Trousers are much narrower at the
bottom this year.
The fashion in arms excited the sus-
picion that the puff sleeve of the fem
mime gender is going TO be adopted
by the male, but experts say this fear
is not justified, and that sleeves VIII
get narrower.
Waistcoats made Of buff leather cloth
and of chsmois are novelty. as is al
so a mat waterproof cloak for the legs
Of the equestrienne. No one al the ex-
hibition knew how TO put IL on IL
was agreed. however. that the effect
would be great.