Evening star., 1905-11-11
FROM ACROSS THE SEA
STYLES IN MEMS DRESS FROM
THE ENGLISH CAPITAL.
Something About the Boom in Brown
Single-Breasted Styles in Favor
Goodwood Glories.

London Cor. the Haberdasher.
Coodwood race meeting is always very
dressy affair, and affords many opportunl-
ties to the reporter and TO the crltlc OF
fashions It was rather less largely at
tended this year than usual, on account OF
the political crisis. The ministry had sus-
tainad a defeat ten days or so before the
maetine and very urgent whips kept the
sunnorters of the administration in town.
Now this administration chances to be that
of the conservative or aristocratlc ana
moneyed party; the liberals are not nearly
such universal attendants al smart gather
ings as their opponents. They were more
or less at liberty to stay away; but the
supporters of the ministry had to be at
Westminster, and as 0ike Sir Boyle Roche's S
famous bird) they could not De IN TWO
places at once, they had to let Goodwooo
do without them; it was only the ldiers
who could go there. The king is, OF course,
a regular attendant; you could as Wen I'M
agine Goodwood without him as without
the starter. And there was a very smart
attendance whose dress revealed number
of movements worthy of being chronlcied
here l have long suspected that the great
vogue of brown might get a chill ana IN
one respect il certainly has. Nothing was
so notIcea BILE at Goodwood as the run on
what are called white" hats. A white
hat in this sense means hat SNAPPED IKE
a tall silk hat, but made of gray felt. The
kings majesty wore such hat; so did al
most every one else. There has been an
absurd story printed about the smart set
telegraphing to town for new hats to wear
on the second day (Tuesday) because the
king had sported white hat on Monday
The fact is, that all well-informed people
knew what would be the fashionable hat.
White Hats.
The change had been heralded by coll
oh
-"ehill," as l referred to above. month
| ago we were wearing brown derbies Gas
YOU call them-our word is "bowlers,' which
l cannot help thinking more expressive.
| though it Is certainly less eleganD and still
browner Alpines and Homburgs. To-day
| black is a little seen in the hard shape, but
much more often gray in both hard and
| soft felt: and now the white hat (Which
always means a tall one; no one calls a
| bowler of exactly the same color anything
| but gray Is quite the most fashionable
| thing to wear with a gray and even with a
| brown frock-coat. These hats have been
| very much out of the fashion and for a
rather amusing reason. One night, years
ago, there was row In the olympic region
| of the gallery at the Criterion Theater-
| the cheapest part of the house, whose dem
izens are often metaphorically spoken of as
| the gods" Sir-tl1en Mr.7-Charles Wynd-
| ham came before the curtain and remon-
!
| one specially riotous god for individual
| argument. Your he said, you in the
| whitehall" The house rocked with laugh
ter, and good humor was restored; but 'the
| man in the white hat" came to ba Il by
| word of the day. Naturally, no one cared
| much 10 wear the form of headgear which
! had been thus prominently identified with
| the shilling seats of the playhouse, and
| until now white" hats have been under a
seemingly impenetrable cloud.
Shirtings.
| Those tucked and pleated shirts. of which
| so much was heard at the beginning of the
| summer, do not seem to be holding their
| place, at least In the finer tucks then in
| troduced The soft colored shirt is still
| much seen, and the front is sometimes
| pleated: but not in the fine French style.
| / do not think that any kind of pleated
evening shirt bosoms will be much seen
| next season in London The best color for
| a colored shirt is now blue, and nGe pink,
| the color which shared with blue about an
/ equal vogue earlier in the year. The eereason
| for this shuttle Of the cards is TO be found