The herald., 1896-10-11

| light blue livery, cut like a gentleman's :
| dress suit, and yellow waistcoat. The
coachman wears double breasted coat
with silver buttons and silk hat.
The colors most affected by the fash
ionable set in Chicago are wine color.
black, dark green, drab, brown, blue
| and blue and red.
| The McCormicks, the Potter Palmers,
! the William Bordens, the Chatfield-
| Taylors and the Samuel Allertons' SER
wants all wear wine color Black is used
| by the coachmen and footmen OF Fred
| Winston, Colonel Loomis, DR.. McGill,
. Martin Ryerson, Arthur Cation, wallace
! Keith, Thomas Lynch, George Armour,
! A. Mulliken and A. Z. Ferguson. F. j.
| Wakem has black with yellow TRIM
mngs. and Mrs. Patterson uses black
with a yellow collar for her servants.
Mrs Hamilton McCormick's liveries
are also black, with gilt buttons. A
very odd shade of brown is worn by
Mrs. Porter's servants. The George d.
McLaughlins use blue, as do the Charles
Smiths. p. d. Armour uses olive green
and P. D. Armour, jr, black. The Pull
man livery is olive green, and Marshall
Fields dark green, as is that of Gen.
Terrence and James c. Evans.
The Farwells, Glessners. Higinbo-
thams. Byron Smiths, W. Doanes, Cud-
ahys, John B. Shermans and Ferd Pecks
all use green liveries, and s. e. Gross
employs a very dark shade of that color.
c. G. K. Billings uses an olive brown
the only livery of that color in the city.
c. B. Blair has snuff brown and A. S.
Trude white, while W. w. Kimball uses
drab.
During the coming season the major
ity of the coachnen will wear breeches
and boots, double breasted coats. and
the new five-lap capes. Furs will be
almost entirely tabooed, and the heavy
I'll o1yr 1o;, al Il It<lyx
or false coats used to hang over the
front seats of Victorias will remain un-
changed. tr f.raa 4tlyff
A livery usually costs $10O in America
although sometimes it runs as high as
$500. The custom of furnishing stable
or morning suits to the men Is rapidly
growing. and was brought from Europe
where the men servants always have a
wardrobe provided by their employers.
An English man servant receives two
suits of livery every year from his en-
ployer. two morning suits, or, If he Is
an outside man, two stable suits, two
pairs of top boots, hat every three
months, gloves and an overcoat. In
France walking boots, ties and pins are
included in the wardrobe. and in some
places in Scotland underclothes are also
provided.
The liveries are the property Of the
servant when he leaves his place, and
they can be sold by him at second hand
store for very tidy little sum.
A footman's dress, to be absolutely
correct, should consist of coat and trou-
sers made like gentleman's dress suit,
with a colored waistcoat, striped or
plain. Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs.
Franklin MacVeagh both have their
footmen in this livery. Mrs. Henry
Selfridge uses a blue livery trimmed
with red cord and a plaid waistcoat for
her cOachman and fOOtman They also
wear red and blue cockades.
It is probable that the house liveries
introduced by Mrs. Palmer will be wide
iy copied in Chicago, although at the
present time there are no plush or vel
vet liveries here. A fashionable livery
tailor says that he has only once made
plush livery, and that was for ST.
Louis family. Powder is already worn
in New York by the footmen of the Van
derbilts, Bishops, Tenures and Win
stons, and doubtless will soon appear in
Chicago.-Chicago Times-Herald,