Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1875 — Gentlemen’s Clothing. [ARTICLE]

Gentlemen’s Clothing.

The business-suits worn for morning and general use by- gentlemen are of English and Scotch cloths in dark somber brown and gray shades. Many' plaids, vague and indistinct, but of larger size than those of the summer, are chosen for such suits and for traveling. The prevailing style for these plain suits is a doublebreasted reefing sack for the coat, with a single-breasted vest buttoned veyy high and close and pantaloons of the same material cut larger in the leg than formerly. Indeed, with each season we have to record that coats are made longer and trousers are larger. Instead ot sack-coats the Newmarket walking coat is sometimes used. Lines of red for of orange are occasionally introduced in the somber plaid cloths worn by gentlemen. The semi-dress sqit worn at day receptions, visiting, driving, at church, concerts and theater has a coat and vest of dark blue, brown or black cloth, with pantaloons of the same or else of light gray cloth or stripes of black and white. The double-breasted frock-coat is made very long and may be bound with silk galloon or merely’ corded in neat and tasteful fashion. The single-breasted vest has a notched collar and buttons medium low; there if a special shape for the vest of frock-coats different from all others. The suit is considered most dressy when the pantalbons are of the cloth used for the coat and vest, but there is so little variety in gentlemen’s attire that many prefer the gray or striped pantaloons. Very fine diagonals are preferred to all other figured cloths for semidress suits. Full-dress evening suits of lustrous black broadcloth retain the shape they have had for years, viz.: the swallowtailed coat and low, single-breasted vest; the coat, however, is longer than formerly. The trousers are of the same cloth or of doeskin. Winter overcoats are made of the warm, heavy Elysian and fur beavers, diagonals, and figured cloths. Black, blue, brown and gray Oxford mixtures are the colors. In shape they' are very long doublebreasted surtouts with silk lining and velvet collars. Those who prefer sack overcoats have them, extremely long with single-breasted fly fronts. U Isters of dark gray Irish frieze are w’orn for traveling, sleighing and whenever extra covering is required, as also over evening full-dress suits. Opera overcoats are of light drab cloth cut in sack shape.— Harper's Bazar.