Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — STARTING A FASHION. [ARTICLE]

STARTING A FASHION.

How the Wearing of Whit* Gloves Was Initiated in Gotham. The other day a young man wanted a pair of evening gloves late at night, and had to go over to Sixth avenue to get them, says the New York Press. There was nothing of his size in stock but a pair of white gloves, while pearl alone are de rigueur. However, he was a dancing man and had to wear f loves, so he bought the gloves, and in course of time led the cotillon wearing them. The chappies were astounded. Nobody could question this man's irreproachable taste, and in fact he was something of a leader of fashion. After supper a breathless deputation waited upon him to know whether or not white gloves had come back again. “I’m wearing them myself, you see, dear boy,” he said jokingly, but with a slightly superior smile. ’ “I haven’t reallv heard whether the Prince hai found it out yet or not. ” Now your true dude is not susceptible to the influence of irony. Besides, the deputation was flustered at the innovation. The result was that they mixed those speeches up, and in half an hour everybody in the room was saying that the Prince of Wales had taken to wearing white gloves in the evening, and that Tom Blank was the first man in Few York to hear of it. So white gloves and not pearl are now the proper thing to wear in New York City on dress occasions, and when our man of fashion strolled into the Metropolitan Opera House the other night and looked around the circle he smiled grimly. Half the men in the boxes looked as if they were carrying snowballs.