The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-17
DETAILS OF MEMS DRESS.
svALL THINGS THAT HAVE GREAT
EFFECT ON ONES APPEARANCE.

of Evening Dress in All Phases.
shoes. Hats, Gloves and OvercOats
In Up-tO-Date styles.
From the New York Sun.
A correspondent of the Sun writes to ask
,bat particulars in the matter of dress
c.n be recommended to him as most sig
rffcant of the man who devotes time and
a. reasonable amount of thought to such
matters. General taste and appropriate
ness in dress are his, and he is seeking
information only as to the little refine
ment which will distinguish him as we'll
,ressed man from those who are merely
Wen clothed. 1t is in these small matters
t,at thought and taste, as well as
knowledge of the world, are most plainly
indicated; whether or not they are import
ant enough 10 occupy a mans attention
is not a matter to be decided here. The
SUNS correspondent wants information,
and as it is of ind that could under no
circumstances do him harm, and indse ed
could never injure anybody, for that mat
ter. it is proper to put him in possession
Of all that is known on this subject
Investigation has brought out the fob
lowing facts in reference to questions
asked especially by the correspondent He
wants 10 know first of all, when and where
the short evening coat, known as a Tux
edo and under various other names, should
appropriately be worn. The abuse of that
Justly popular and convenient garment
threatens to become so widespread that il
is a pleasure to define the limits of its
usefulness. Now it is sadly owe. worked
even by persons who pretend to be in
formed about such matters. The short
dinner jacket is an extremely informal
garment, intended primarily for the man
who dresses every evening at dinner to
wear in the bosom of his family 1t is
not looked upon as appropriate even at
Informal dinners to which two or three
persons are invited. Ii is generally sid
that the presence of women makes the
short jacket inappropriate, although that
cannot apply to the women of one S fam
fly. At the opera dinner coat is mad
Missile under all circumstances unless
possibly it be at a Sunday night concert
when two men so together. 1t is no more
appropriate for the theater when women
are TO be of the party. Two men dining
alone and going afterWard to the theater
might be permitted to wear a short coat;
if they went with women there would be
no excuse for their doing so. OF course, a
dinner coat is preposterously inappropri-
ate at any dancing function, unless it be
at a summer hotel where f1annels might
4 not be regarded as out of place.
Sometimes men have been known to
8 show themselves in public wearing a din
ner coat with a white waistcoat and
& black neckte. Such a combination is in
congruOus enough to discourage any per-
son interested in good dressing The
g black is all right No other tie should be
worn with a dinner coat but the waist
coat should be black too a white waist
81 coat and white necktie should always be
kept separate from dinner coat. Nova
days the haberdashers are making for
wear with the dinner coat dull black silk
neckties decorated with small designs in
the same colored silk These have won
some admirers, but it is still the broad
small black satin necktie that appeals
most to Well-dressed men. For full even
n ing dress the white tie, which is still
broad and somewhat narrower in the mid
die than at the ends, is the only one ad-
MISSILE.
Nowadays the double breasted white
Waistcoat is so customary with evening
dress as to be an almost Indispensable
part of II. This form of white waistcoat
with its two rows of buttons has passed
"a beyond any suspicious of being a new style
81 and after having been worn al all times
81 and in all places, it takes it's place as a
q permanent style. Not only are the white
waistcoats usually double-breasted. so are
NhU biOWH anu tOlOIeu extra WdlSAtOdtS
made for ordinary wear.
a With a dinner coat the man who
knows what is appropriate wears a derby
hat With evening dress the opera hat
OF ribbed silk is a necessary accOmpani-
ment. Men who wear ordinary silk hats
With evening dress are not necessarily out
Of style, but they are not quite so much
in the style as they might be.
The average New Yorker who goes to the
opera or the theater in evening dress could
wear loud buttoned patent feathers or
With moderately thick soles and be in the
style. If he were little more particular
he would wear what are commonly called
Qw quarters in patent leather covering
them with goloshes as any man will have
10 do who is not equal TO the rigors of
winter with only silk socks to protect his
ankles For dinners and dances New York
mas almost unanimously adopted the same
low quarters although the low pump is
more strictly the mode. This has always
been the London fashion and the men
wear pumps there just as regularly as they
wear evening dress when they go to a
dance dinner or the theater. But the
style has never become so popular here
and that is not to be regretted. The
pumps that are now sold with the narrow
s0eS and low heels give man the feel
ing of walking about in his stocking feet
hd dress suit trousers made by the most
RAtu and careful tailor cannot be made
look well when they flap about an ankle
Unprotected by a shoe. The American
low quarter is superior to the foreign style
beauty as well as in convenience.
Watches are carried in the pocket with
l chain or worn on a black fob; but
ne latter fashion has very little to rec
Mmend it. The man who wears gold
lls or white studs in his plain dress
tft can feel that he is Just as much in
STYLE as the man who wears pearls,
one is as appropriate as the other.
" weNhtting dress shirt with its smooth,
ven bosom, is in better form and taste
I'm tho fiuted, embroidered or tucked
aH hosoms which are from time to time
@Wayed in the shop windows. but are
/ Eyer by any possible chance seen on
r.-dressed man.
"A oHn the dinner coat and its accompany
Nerov hat man may wear any sort of
"e mat he may use during the day. 1t
olN with full dress that he is expected
wear white gloves These are made for