Year: 1875

WOODS DtBhtneu styfe'
Andy Johnson's dress was of the old
! school style of politician of some twenty
years ago, with but one modern cou'
cessi0n, and that was that the coat WAS
froek instead of swallow-tail. His
style Of dress, the conventional one OF
| the American Gentleman" of the
years gone by, consisted Of shiny
black brOadcl0th coat and trousers, with
vest of deep black velvet. There


are but few of the Congressman of the


present day that wears this style of


dress, but take them as class, probably


they are as badly dressed a set of men


as one can 6nd anywhere ia the coun-


try.


Throughout Congress there are many


men who make 1t point of dressing in


the most eccentric possible manner.


Luke Poland of Vermont was one of


the most eccentric dressers in the house.


blue coat adorned with small dinner


plates of brass buttons. His vest was


generally white, and opened go as TO
display a wide expanse of dainty ruff


fed shirt bosom, under whose shades
CLEANED here and there tiny diamond


buttons. This old man never in his
life passed pier-glass without taking
good square look al himself. Two of
the best dressed men in the Congress
are Clarkson Potter of New York in
the house, and in the Senate Gen. Burn
side. ClarksOn Potter has rather over"
done the matter in too closely adhering
to the English style Of dressing. His


whiskers are cut after the English fash
ION, and he affects the English style of
pronunciation. Yet there are but few
men in the House who are his equals in
ability and capacity for work. Gen.
Burnside, the best dresser liz the Sens
ate, affects the undress military style,
and in his peculiar cravats, waistc0ats,
and original colors never fails to attract
more than ordinary notice. He was
once tailor in his early days, and
never neglects an opportunity offered
by an evening session to put on q full
dress suit. Attired in this society
splendor, Ambrose loves to stand about
the doorways of the Senate Chamber
and allow the public to drink in the full
beauties of his noble proportions.


Among the worst dressed men in
either branch of Congress is Sammy
Cox. He always wears bobtail sack
coat, and bobtail sack coat never fails
to damn a little man. His clothes
would not bring over $3.50 in any auc-
tion store in the country. There was
only one man in the last House who
was worse dresser than Sammy Cox,
and that was Crutchfield of Tennessee.
Crutchield is rough mountaineer, who
never wore a collar or shaved himself
oftener than once week.


Flanagan, in the Senate, used to
dress in a very peculiar man
ner when he was on deck as Texas
statesman. A shad- -belled coat of blue
or bro wn, ornamepted with bone or
brass buttons, plaid waistcoat, and
nankeen- colored trousers, over which
hung three pound gold chain, made
up a costume sufficiently striking.


One of the most ungainly- looking men
that ever stood on end in Congress is
I.oughridge of Iowa. He looks as if he
were whitfield out of very knotty wood
with very dull knife, and stalks
about, morning, noon, and night, 10 a
black suit, the coat swallow.tail, with
a waistcoat worn open and low, dis
playing tumbled shirt that is ever
struggling arduous!y to get above his
ears. Luttrell Of California was an.
other badly dressed man. lie always
wore rough gray suit, that looked as
if some day it hau rained clothing, and
by chance few articles had clung to
him. After time Luttrell dOnned one
day O Prince Albert coat, buttoned
snugly across his broad breast. His
trousers were a peat conventional gray.
His paper collar had, too, disappeared
and in its place fashionable linen one
appeared above purple slack. Won-
der of wonders this California Gran
ger had also dainty bultonhole bou.
quet in his coat. Behold the influence
OF lovely woman The fair creature
who tanned the Granger Lutlrell is now
in the mint in San Francisco, possibly
continuing her good work of polishing
down the crudities of her congressional
lover.


The double-b -bressted frock coat has
grown il favor with the better order of
Congressman during the last few years.
The beauty of the coat is that when 1t
is closely buttoned II gives a man a
very compact appearance that never
fails to impress a loosly-dressed crowd.
There is dignity about clOsely-but-
toned double breasted froek coat, that
can be found in no other article of q
mans wardrOpe. Fernando Wood would
lose nine-tenths of his impressive dig
nifty we're he to put on sack coat and
lounge about in a way assumed by
some of his Western brethren. He al
ways wears long black coat that but
tons tightly up to his throat. He looks
as il he we're melted down every night.
and run into his clothes every morn-
ing. lie is always easy in his manners,
and has not the mannerism
of OlarksOn Potter, the best dressed
man IN the house. .... ...,t.


Mr.. Speaker Blaine affects the
double breasted frock. He generally .
wears two buttons buttOned and allows .
the rest Of the coat to roll SO as to show |
o very neat SHIRT. Farrell Of Chicago |
wears the double breasted frock. gon-