The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-05
WHAT MEN SHOUI D WEAR
MORNING. NOON AND NIGHT

Dignifed and decent mourning dress
for a man does not permit the use of
a black band on the sleeve of a tan
colored coat. The variety lSving city
1 bounder may be permitted TO enjoy this
indecorous means of publishing the loss
of one both near and dear; but the
well dressed man and gentleman must
array himself from top 10 toe in the
proper trapping and suit of woe. or
make no pretentions to mourning dress
at all.
The complete outfit for the individual
who has lost a near relative, 4 parent,
child, sister or brother or wife, is for
| business hours and for the morning a
full suit of the toughest wool in black,
the sacque coat, trousers and waist
Goa: all from the one piece Of goods.
With this white linen and a dull black
silk tie in which no pin appears. AS
the waistcoat buttons high and the
cravat spreads its folds amply no bit
of linen save the cuffs and collar ap-
pear, so that the shirt bosom striped or
sprigged or dotted with black about
which there is always an unpleasant
tomb stony suggestion is wisely and
thoroughly blotted out Of sight and use.
Vanished boots are not permitted
with this costume, a dull calf or dom
COLA with black cloth Spa:s taking nat
ural precedence Of any other type OF
footwear. A gun metal watch chain,
drawn straight across the waist coat
cuff links of the same material and
gloves OF black gazelle skin denote a
proper attention to small significant
details.
AS for headgesr. the black bowler or
derby, as one may choose to call it, is
the approved roof and crown of things
demonstrating the term medium in its
proportions of crown and brim, lined
with white satin and bearing a black
band from two inches and a half to
two inches and three-quarters in width
For afternoon dress for a man in
mourning requires that the frock coat,
trousers and Waistcoat be cut from the
same piece Of black vicuna, or rather
heavy unfinished worsted. and that the
shoes be of leather enameled sufficient
ly to give only. slight lustre. Black
splatter dashes buttons over these and
the gloves are black glace kid fastened
with two large black buttons. The top
hat for such an outfit at the funeral
may be bound with crepe. Thereafter.
mourner's cloth is the appropriate band
and is worn widest for a wife For a
child or parent the top hats band
should measure two inches and three
quarters.
Lightning the Gloom.
Into the full dress mourning suit a
CLEAN of light may be cast by the
scarf and pin, though for the funeral
and first weeks afterward a cravat of
silk as lustreless as the facing of the
coat lapelS and pierced by dull black
enameled pin paves the way to a cravat
of black and gray brocade and an ONYX
pin touched with gold. In the brocade
hgures or stripes are equally accent
able, and one man of undoubted taste
and knowledge in the niceties of dress
wears in his tie single pearl of modest
size sunk in a gypsy setting of black
enamel showing hair line of gold
Another popular form is a birds claw
Of onyxed gold and dusky enamel hold
ing ball of onyx. A watch chain of
gold links subdued with elaborate
tracings of black enamel afford another