Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05
CLOTHES FOR MEN
When They Wish to Be Dressed in
the Fashion.
STRAIGHT TIPS ON FALL MODES
Full and Formal Dress and What
to Wear for Business.
B I O Y O L E s U I T s
BIO YOLE So 1T
Of The Evening Star.

Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, September 8, 1895.
1.-THE season thus far" said Mr.. c. M.
Connolly, the editor of the Haberdasher,
to the writer, has been radically diff
ferent from those that have preceded
1t in the free use Of the chromat
10 modes, in artistic combination of
strong colors. not only in neckwear. but in
fancy shirts and in fabrics for suits.
OF course, all these tone effects have
heen literally copied by the Cheap Johns.
and the natural result will be that
conservative tones will be strong favor
ties among gentlemen this fall. They
won't sacrifice colors. but these will be-
come of secondary Importance In the gen.
eral motive. not predominating as they
have DONE It's just the same as it is with
women's clothes. Anything distinctive Is
at once taken up and copied by a class OF
cheap imitators, and then the well-dressed
man of wealth must try some new means
of lifting himself out Of the mass.
1.-The coored shirt will go right along;
right through the winter. The great sue
cess of the soft neglige shirt with stiff
white collar has given the colored shirt
permanent stand. No, K wouldn't give the
credit of It's introduction to Mr.. Belmont.
No one man can originate a mode. It's dis
tinctively American. We use colored shirts
much more than they do abroad. Madras
and percnle will be used great deal in
making them Madras is a woven fabric
while percale is print. 1t stands to reason
that a woven fabric will hold its color bet
ter than printed one. This Madras shirt
with attached cuffs and white collar the
ready-made man copies In shirts with white
bodies. Madras boSomS and detachable cuffs
and white detachable collars, to sell for
about 50 a dozen.
The Proper Shirt.
THE proper shirt has cuffs and collar
built on It, always. Some are wearing for
dress purposes a white shirt with pleated
bosom, but the plain bosom will be quieter
and more usual. a dress shirt, especially,
must have the cuffs attached. Even If a
fellow is only earning So a week, he ought
to have a dress shirt made right It's poor
economy If he's going to wear an expensive
suit at all to spoil the effect for the sake of
saving three cents on his laundry bills"
furtively punched my cuffs UP my coat
sleeves out of sight while Mr. Connolly
continued: The proper wear for full or
formal dress is a high, straight collar, COM
petely tapping in front, and with no break
Three inches high or less. For less formal
wear collar with slight high bend is ad-
missible. With informal dress only the
high band turnover collar will be worn.
Square-cornered link cuffs are the best
shape. They should be quite deep-say,
AZ TO inches, the link button holes set
back about IA inches, so as not easily to
show the links.
with full dress no watch guard is worn
The tie for dress suit is plain lawn
from seven-eighths of an inch to an inch
and a quarter vide. The gentleman ties his
Cwn tie and the gent don't For formal
cay wear the Ascot or four-in-hand is cor
rect in pearls or whites in the afternoon.
The less formal club house tie will be