The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-09
SPORTING STYLES FOR MEN.
Red Coats Are in HOpeIessIy bad
Taste on the Links.

Taste on the Links.
New York, April Ito the London tall
or. the author of many valuable inventions
for the comfortable and graceful dressing
of the modern man, Is due the honor Of
evolving the Raglan coat, the Raglan has
come to fill an aching void in the mascu-
line wardrobe left by the disappearance
from fashionable use of the Inverness
cape. In its time this easy cape wrap
did splendid service, for no mans evening
dress either wears or looks well if he Is
obliged 10 drag on and off the shoulders
of 1t a heavy, close-htting Chesterfield, for
example.
At the hight of its popularity, however,
the Inverness displayed a fault or two.
One or these was Its easy admission OF
rrigld draughts on bitter cold nights. No
such objection can be urged against the
Raglan, which is at once roomy, light aud
warm. The skirts of ii fall little below
the knee, but the charm of its build lies in
the easy sleeves that are oddly set In on
the shoulders with V-shaped pieces that
extend clear to the collar line. BY this
device a peculiar looseness, without bag
giness, is secured in the body of the coat,
and those made especially for evening
wear have no pockets. TO take the place
of pockets in the skirt of the coat Sits
are so made in the goods that the wearer
can pass his hands directly through his
overcoat and into the pockets of his dress
trousers There is lots of inconvenience
avoided by this simple device.
The Raglan, however, unlike the 1nver-
ness cape, is not a garment exclusively for
evening use. 1t was really invented and
| first worn as a coat for sporting purposes,
and in black. brown, blue or light covert
| goods, 1t is an admirable coat for the
| spring weather. Men who approve of a
sort of modest variety in their dress, wear
! in the evening grey whipcord Raglans with
black velvet collars, and the effect is very
nice. In coats for day use the skirt is sup
piled with genuine pocket, though none
appears in the upper portion of the gar
ment.
Any one in earnest search for smart
new top coat for the season can not do
better than take few notes from the
| fashionable young New York club man,
whose coat is always cut these days m
the sacque form, whether It's Raglan
or not. Its collar is of velvet, the seams
Tapped or raised, the sleeves as often as
rot completed by turn back cuffs, and
| dark grey homespun or whipcord is the
| approved color.
| If YOU are a golfng man, and If you
| wish TO make the best possible appear
ance on the links this season, don't array
yourself In trousers of the bloomer varie-
| ty; nor In trousers cut with the special
| fullness of riding breeches. Also, don't
go in for a coat of shameless pink with
staring gold buttons. Leave all that sort
of toggery to the tyros, who in golf as
in all the other undertakings of life, must
live, and suffer, and learn. For yourself
pattern by the fashionable men who are
nearly always the most soberly and grace
fully ornamented, and select your golfing
suit of a soft cheviot, homespun, tweed
or rough Shetland goods. Let the checks
In the weave be dull, the plaid broken