Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — Glided Youth of Gotham. [ARTICLE]

Glided Youth of Gotham.

Men are becoming very luxurious, and their dressing rooms, sitting rooms, wardrobes, and repositories for personal belongings display tastfeimore costly than those of women. Underwear qf the softest, richest knitted silk; dozens <j>f South American pajama, for night and dressing room wear, ofj China crepe, soft twilled Chinese silk, cashmere, flannel bound with satin and embroidered, and all in the daintiest, most delicate tints and < olors, such as ivory, pale blue, pink, buff, or velvet. The pajaman consists of drawers and loose blouse jacket with sailor collar. When made in ivory they are often faced with a color and embroidered with ivory silk in a little vine or in the corners of collars and cuffs. If the pajama is in colors it will perhaps be embroidered with white or have appliques cut out of white satin cloth or velvet embroidered on. The daintiest of all is an all white pajama of ivory Chinese crepe or silk enriched with hand embroidery, and these are made for the wedding outfits of fashionable men, who will have a dozen of white, a dozen of trimmed with color, and a dozen in various delicate colors and embroided in white. These elegant gentlemen have for smoking companions the gate of a country house, in nickel or silver, with chain rings instead of bars to hold cigars upright, and side lights representing gate-lamps, but holding candles, and post pedestals to form match holders. These cost from $l5O to $250, and are sometimes ornamented with a bird or a rooster in the act of crowing. ■ Another recently imported piece of masculine extravagance is. a lamp, the lower part of which forms a tripod set in a double hoof, decorated with natural hair. There are two burners representing wax candles under tinted and decorated glass, and the cost for a lamp of this kind is about s2so.Another lamp has for its standard a horseshoe with stirrup and riding whip crossed and twisted. As for the expensive ashtrays and liquor sets and pipe racks and dressing cases and the like space and time would both fail in their enumeration. It may be mentioned that among the personal properties of one young gentleman in New York city are 370 odd silk, satin, and knitted neckties, and upward of 50 walking sticks. The inventory did not go any further or it might have developed equally curious results in other departments.— New York Letter.