Year: 1869

The New York World gives the follow
ing for the guidance of gentlemen during
the coming season:


The leading materials for suiting will
be Melton and that very popular article
of Scottish wool which came in last fall
to considerable extent. Stripes, as for
several seasons, will have the preference
for pantaloons-the single side stripe
holding its place, for which thanks to the
taste for the graceful. Plaids are always
execrable, and ought never to he popular.
For visiting suits pantaloOns of light
colors will continue to be In style; while
pique, granite, and diagonal coatings will
hold their places for coats and vests.


Pantaloons are to be made small in the
leg, but to spring well over the foot.
Dress vests are to be cut lower in the front
than last season, and single-breasted, with
an inside collar Of silk in some delicate
shade of blue, lavender or red. For
other purposes they may be either single
or douhle-breasted, to conform with the
style of coat with which they are worn.
Brown olive, blue or green tints in various
patterns will be most fashionable for walk
ing or business suits. For half dress,
brown, blue and dahlia are to be the pop
ular colOrs.


Dress coats are to be ofmedium length
with the variation ofvery long and rather
wide rolls to the lappels.


The graceful sack, everybody viii be
glad to hear, is coming in this season.
The double breasted frock, with faced col
lar, and cut to be worn buttoned, will
stand first for street wear this spring.
The half-dress morning coat is to be sin
gle-breasted still, the collar turning so as
to expose only two buttons, but quite
slender and narrow nevertheless. 1t is
cut in sack, and demands excellent ma
terial


The business coat Will be either of
jaunty English style or a sack of short
pattern, rounded at the corners in front,
and with large pocket lappels; buttons
sparse, only two being exhibited, and cut
in the back.


Scarf rings-huge, gaudy, brazen and
biz0rre-are passe this season, having
sadly degenerated within the past few
months in competition with the unbe-
coming blank of the Lord Stanley scarf,
the most stiff and ungraceful of inven-
tons possible, and to be tabooed this sum
mer. A return to the open scarf may be
predicted colors worn will be rather
gaudy than delicate-striped patterns
having the preference. To this may be
added the scarf f-Pin-heads of animals
having the preference in the way of de-
vices when the metal Is worked without
gems, and canoes when the gem is af-
fected, and the outfit is complete in this
respect. Spirals are not as popular as
formerly, except for full dress, when real
gems take the lead. Diamonds of course,
are always in order. Next to them stand
garnets, next amethysts, and next the
plain gold knob. Devices are not in or
der, and button-studs are odious or so
voted. The mania for bugs, flies and
other geological fantasies has subsided.


Lord Stanley, Dickens, and the plain
blonde will hold supremacy in the patterns
of the collar; and fancy muslins are to
have greater run than even last summer.


Of course, you will not forget that the
Grecian Bend shoe is the shoe of the
period.


An effort is to be made to introduce
hats of positive colors this season, which,
for the sake of taste, it is to be hoped
may fail.