The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
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MEMS FASHIONS
A New York tailor, who goes abroad
twice a year to study fashions, says:

A New York tailor, who goes abroad
twice year to study fashions, says:
Fashions for men originate in
London, and our tailors bring them
over from London and introduce them
here, sometimes a little modified,
sometimes quite unchanged. A Lon
don fashion never appears in America
until it is a year old in London, and
sometimes it is two, three and four
years old before it appears here.
I'll tell you how the Londoner is
dressing this winter, and then you
will know how the American will
dress next winter or the winter after
next.
First, take the sack suit. An
Englishman calls a sack suit a lounge
suit Well, in London they are try
ing to discard the fairly long, loose
lounge coat now fashionable here,
and to wear in place Of it a coat un-
precedentedly long and tight. This
coat comes down to within a foot Of
the knees. 1t is single breasted, and
in the back it fits in to the figure
closely, like frock coat, while up
the middle seam there is a vent, or
slit, from twelve to sixteen inches
long. The waistcoat of this sort of
a sack, or lounge, suit buttons up
high at the neck, and the trousers
are much tighter than we have worn
4 IIl6Hl LOT 1ndny years..
In overcoats the English are going
back again to the raglan. The new
raglan, tho, has a seam at the top
Of the shoulder, as we'll as the usual
odd seams on each side Of it, and
the new seam makes the coat: set bet
ter about the collar. and gives to the
shoulders more shapely effect.
altogether, the resurrected, rein
carnated raglan is a handsome coat,
and I prophesy that it will meet with
a hearty welcome in America a year
or two hence.
''The Englishman's frock coat and
evening clothes continue to be about
the same as of old. In these cos
tunes, indeed, radical changes are
seldom, If ever, made.
"In street gloves, tho, a, startling
change has taken place. Every Eng
lishman you see on Bond or Regent
street to-day wears gloves Of un-
dressed kid of pale yellow, almost
cream color-gloves that look, in a
word, as tho they had been cut out
of a soft, clean piece of chamois.
They only cost a shilling pair in
London. and the other day I saw a
lot of them exhibited in the window
of Fifth avenue haberdasher,
marked, What our cousins across the
water are now wearing. Price $1.75.'
''The fashionable colors for lounge
years soft grays and browns. These
are the fashionable colors in America,
too.
"a word as to raincoats. You know
the white rubber raincoats that
coachmen wear? Well, the English
are beginning to wear a coat Of the
same, color and fabric, only, Of course,
the fabric is a fine one, and the coat
is cut in the raglan shape. 1t is not
long, it only reaches to the knees;
and it is very full and loose, SO that,
when you sit down. you can draw the
skirt about you, like a lap robe.
.'The London man is fond of but
tonhole bouquets. He wears enor-
! nous ones. They are big, in fact,
as small cabbages 1t is not unusual
of morning to see a clerk stepping
out vigorously towards his office, with
pipe and walking stick, and, in his
| lapel, a buttonhole bouquet COM
posed of a large red rose. three sprays
of lily of the valley, and a half dozen
sprigs of maidenhair fern"