Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — GENTLEMEN’S FASHIONS. [ARTICLE]

GENTLEMEN’S FASHIONS.

What to Wear and How to Wear It. [From the New York Home Journal.] In the frock coat for receptions or dinners there is little or no change, except that there is a tendency to leave off the silk breast-facings. It is worn with plain gray trousers, or with trousers of a light shade, having a narrow stripe. For the morning or walking suit the coat is made of a wide-wale black diagonal, buttoning high up, with one or three buttons, at the option of the wearer; the waist a little longer than formerly, and the skirt a little shorter, well -rounded off. The sleeves end in a deep cuff, with two button holes, finished with a flat and rather wide braid. When the trousers are of blue and-black narrow stripe, or of check, the coat and waistcoat are of one material. If the trousers are of a lighter color and more fancy pattern, then the trousers and waistcoat are of one material.

For tJ'e lounge suit: A sack-coat, buttoning high up, with four buttons; cut obliquely away from the fourth button, and barely reaching to the end of the fingers when the arm is extended. It is cut in close to the figure. The edges are double-stitched, the lines of stitching wide apart. The sleeves are finished with rather a long vent and one button. Such coats are made of soft tweeds and Scotch homespun, in patterns of very indistinct plaids, of small mixed broken brown, or of gray checks with Knickerbocker spots. The waistcoat is made with a standing collar and the trousers are moderately close-fitting. The homespun is heavier and closer-woven than that of last spring. Than this material none is better suited to our variable climate. Softneither too light nor too weighty, it is just the thing to wear between the sea, sons. It is grateful to the touch, pleasing to the eye, and if it “catches the dust,” the dust is never seen, and a brush is scarcely ever required, the dust being easily shaken from the surface.

For the evening dress the coat is made rather shorter than formerly, so as to fall a little above the small of the leg. The collar is a little wider, and in front turns over only to the second hole from the bottom of the waist; it is faced with silk, extending to the buttonholes. The sleeve-cuff is plain and deep, without buttons. The waistcoat does not open so far down as last year, but the opening is wider, showing more of the shirt-front, whinli mnut and ornamented with but one stud; the shirt-collar turned down. The cloth for the coat and waistcoat should be of a black and very fine sandgrain, with a dull finish; the trousers of the same, or of a dull-finished, very fine diagonal. Overcoats are single-breasted, made fly-front, and are cut to fit the figure closer than the old loose sacque. The favorite materials are English melton in negative or undecided colors; “Venetians” in steel-grays and light and dark browns; soft-finished tweeds; “mixed” goods; Scotch homespuns — almost any medium-we'ght coat-mate-rial, except smooth-faced broadcloth or diagonal goods.