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Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, those two reliable fashion journals, are giving so muoh valuable space to the fashions for men and boya that it will not be amiss to reprint some of their timely suggestions for (he benefit of the men here who wish to be appropriately dressed in the way of fabric and out; or that the wives and sisters may read and tell husbands and brothers who are too busy to read for themselves, or again, for mothers of very little men to know what to buy in the way of garments, even if they are not compelled to have their tailoring done at home. No. 2. The evening or dreaa suit, which should be worn to dinners, to the play, to pay evening calla, and, ol courae, to receptiona, balls or daucea, should be made ol unfinished worsted or vicuna or broadcloth. The collar and lapel of the coat may be covered with ailk, or even velvet, and the collar ia notched ; a sin gle button on tbe sleeves is correot; the tails are rather long, and are cut square rather than in the old pigeon-sbape fashion. Single-breasted waistcoats with three buttons, cut very low and showing as much of tbe shirt front aa possible; white waistcoats of pique or simple.duck at balls or the theater are permissible; troueera plain without any braid on the seams, and tho width not aa exagger ated as last year. Patont-laAther pumpa and black silk atookingß are indispens able adjuncts to evening dress. Tbe evening shirt is very plain, laundered without a suspioion of gloss, with either two or three buttons of white enamel, pearls or plain gold; collars high and straight, and informal occasions, or, in case of a very ehort neck, tbe plain turn over collar may be worn. Aa to tbe tie, a'plain lawn tie arranged in a rectangu lar bow is the smartest, and the plain black tie of satin or groa grain, also a reotaugular tie for the play or informal occasions. The frock coat this winter ie a com mon-sense garment, and ia made of vi cuna or rough worated. It comes just below tbe knees, and the skirts fall at angles rather than stick out as if they were hading a crinoline. It is silk-faced, not buttoning too high, and with one, not three, buttons on the sleeves. In fact, it is tbe same ooat of a few years ago, but it ia longer and of different ma terial. Trousers are almost psrfectly straight and not as fall. The materials and tbe patterns are about tbe same dark cashmeres with email stripes. There is a revival of tbe shepherd's plaid in London. They are in large checks, blaok <md white. These are considered to be very smart, and tailors here have bad numerous orders for them. No. 9. There baa been some attempt to do away with the cutaway coat. Tbe blaok diagonal, with its two to four buttons, its rather abbreviated akirt and tail— tbia very distinctive garment of tbe American —ia no longer of tbe fashion. In its place there is one of soft material, suoh as tbe obeviot, tha Angola, or a woolen roughly finished, and so yield ing as to oling to the figure. This is of course copied after the English eat, which promotes looseness rather than tightness in fit. It has three buttons, and just under the third one it makes a direot slope for the back. Both skirt and tail are quite long, reaching below tbe knee. For general comfort and for wear and tear there is nothing like tbe sack suit. The English call it tbe lounge, and make it loose and comfortable, choosing tweeds and woolen goods, and mixed black and grays and warm browns, and again cheviots and Seotoh designs. In this they are sensible. The styles in America are modeled after the London fashions in sack auits. Neither has un dergone any change, except that the ooats are shorter. It remains without doubt the most becoming set of gar ments a man can wear. He actually lives in them, and be grows to love them, and be hates to throw them aside. There are all kinds and all spsoies of overcoats, of many different cuts and styles and made of various materials, but there is among them all nothing like the single-breasted dark blue Mel ton with a velvet collar. It is a garment which will always be dressy, it is essen tially genteel and it ia most serviceable. These are truly sardinal virtues in a coat. An overcoat mast always fit easily over tha undercoat, and in its length have about an inch to spare. The Mel ton Chesterfield, being of a firm, smooth cloth, never wrinkles if well made, and JjOS AtTGFECES HERALD STTNDAY MORtfTNG, DECEMBER 16, 1894. is always presentable. It oan be put on with a high hat, and again with a derby or a Hombourg. And yet it ia not a garment which everybody could wear to the same advantage. Like the well-fit ting dress coat, it proclaims the gentle man. No. 3. The long blaok coat, mads of rough wonted, lined with silk and with an Inverness cape; this ooat ia very looae and ia the beat thing to wear over even* ing dreii. It does not disturb tbe fresh ness of the ooat on tbe abirt and looka well with a illk hat, and a gentleman's wardrobe can contain no better or more useful article. Boots and shoes have bad bat little change. Tbe toes are not pointed, bnt rounded, and a stickler for dress insists that the smartest thing for afternoon wear is tbe patent-leather walking boot, buttoned, bnt not laoed. Russet shoes are favorites for tbe country, and for rainy weather in the city. They ara also worn a great deal with sack or business suits, especially if the latter be brown in color, add always for traveling. Tbe collar for ordinary occasions ia moderately nigh and square. Tbe Eton collar, which turns over so as to preserve the form of a very high standing one, ia much in vogue among young men, who wear with it a simple black bow in way of neok gear. Colored shirts of percale and linen, pinks and blues the favorite hues, are worn in the morning, and by some even with frock ooats in tbe afternoon. This latter fad is consid ered very British, but it smacks of Cheapside rather than tbe West End, Tbe silk bat of this season is rather small in tha orown and extends up in a bell-like shape, with a very narrow band of ribbed black ailk ribbon; the brim ia curling and bound with ribbon of tbe same quality and kind. Tbe Homburg bat is still very muoh in vogue for informal ocoasions, either in gray with band of lighter shade, or brown with brown band, or black with a black groa grained ribbed band. The black darby bat is still much worn, a little higher in the crown, with graceful curling brim. Tbe neckwear this winter is somewhat elaborate, The English scarfs are cut very much like tbe Ascot, but they are more voluminous. To tie them requires a great deal of patienoe and muoh in genuity. In faot, a diagram would not be amies. They must be brought over 1 like tbe Aaeot end then made in a knot. Below tbia a acarf pin ia inaerted. Bat there ia yet more to come. The ailk moat be puffed oat and oover the entire ahirt front, wbioh meana a great deal now that waietcoata are out ao low and men wear their coats habitually unbut toned. Red aeema to lead, and tha windows of tbe shops are simply daz zling with thia brilliant color. The handsomest of all the English scarfs in this shape, however, are of black silk or satin, with small flowers, or designs raised in white or blue, or again in the all-prevailing red. If the arrangement of these cravats proves too much for the patience of tbe ordinary man, be can select a four-in head, which is still the fashion this year. These are, however, narrower tbia season, and blaok with oolored de signs or stipes are the most popular. Again, there are very narrow blaok ties to be adjusted in a single knot like a four-in-hand, or tha ordinary club tie or cravat, to be arranged in a square bow; and the latter come in all possible de signs and colors. 80 it will be seen that with such an embarrassment of riob material, a man can vary easily spend quite a small fortune in the item of scarfs and ties alone, and men have been known to make collections of these bits of ribbon as others gather around them old china or rare books. WHAT SMALL BOYS WEAR, There is a tendency to using kilt skirts on boys np to 5 years of age, in stead of putting them in knee breeob.es No. 4, when only 3 years old. The mother's preference deoides the matter usually in favor of keeping her boy ia skirts, though much also depends on the child, on hie size, and on his fancies, one sens itive little fellow with golden curia pro testing as shyly when seen without his ekirt as did Rosalind herself when die covered in trousers in the foreat of Arden. Blue serge for daily wear, and white serge for best, are ohosen for tbe kilt and little jacket in the winter, though some boye wear white pique suits all tho year. There are broadcloths, tricots, cheviots and velveteens for tbe largest bdVs, but serge ia in beat tasto for all sizes. Tbe short jncket may be square corneted, or else rounded in Zouave fashion, but mast never reach tbe edge of the full white blouse beneath. The kilt is either side-pleated or in box pleats, falling just over the knee, and ia sewed to a aileaia waiat. The full droop ing blouse with large square oollar ia of fine white lawn or of Japanese ailk daintily embroidered. Norfolk pleated suits of cheviot, and Scotch plaid kilta with plain cloth jacketa, are alao shown for boys of five years. An important matter is that the kilt skirt be worn without petticoats underneath to dis tend it, The kilt should hang straight with unbroken pleats over knee- breeches made of the same material as the kilt, or something similar. Tbe child should be made comfortably warm by merino drawers and long blaok woolen stock ings. His buttoned shoes have cloth tops and patent-leather below. The hat is a Tarn o'Shanter of blue serge or of tan leather, and his overcoat is a warm blue reefer or else a long cape-coat of oloth covering him to the anklea. No. S. The ever-popular eailor suits are made for boys from 3 to 8 yeara of age, and are also need by those 12 years old. The smallest boys (who should still be in kilts) wear either tbe sailor trousers flaring at tbe foot or else short knee breeches. The midshipman suit, copied from the regular navy jaokat, iB of blue serge, tbe fronts opening on a shield or vest of serge embroidered with crossed anchors and three bars in red. Four little brass buttons are on each aide of tbe open jacket, and there is a large eailor collar of the serge, over which a separate collar is worn, either of white serge 'or pique. Sometimes a white shield is also used, of serge or of galatea. Heavy flannels are needed under the open jacket. This boy wears a reefer of thick blue chinchilla, which may now be ornamented with regulation buttons of tbe United Statea navy, instead of tbe anchor buttons to long worn. Military suits are offered as rivals to sailor suits for boys of 4 to 12 years. They are made of bright blue doeskin, of the bluo-gray cloth worn by West Point cadets, or else of dark blue cloth. The coat is cut like a United States of. ficer's undress coat or sack, buttoned up the single-breasted front by five but* tons, and braided across in five leaves. Similar ornaments are on the high turned-over oollar on the eleeveß. The knee-breeches are quite straight. To complete this suit very effectively is a military cape of the cloth of the coat — a circular cape suob as offioere wear. It has a hood attached, and is lined throughout with red flannel or cloth. A row of military brass buttons is down tbe front of the caps. School suits for boys from 5 to 15 years of age are made of cheviots, light grays or browns, or darker mixtures, or else checked. Most of those suits have a double-breasted jacket and knee breeches, but the present fancy is to put trousers on hoys of 12, an unbecom ing fashion, making them look like old men. With these are worn a sack coat and vest, a shirt, with standing collar and scarf, and a derby hat. Ohuroh suits for boys up to 10 years are made of blue or green cloth, with tbe jacket meeting at tha throat and opening below over a long vest. It is handsomely braided in cross-rows of blaok on eaob side of the front. Tbe knee pantaloons have also cross-rows of braiding. A turned-over collar of linen is worn, with a large silk bow at the throat of a dark oolor or else of plaid. No, C When taken into society, the Eton suit with trousers is worn by boys of eight to fourteen years, even though they wear knee breeches with other suits. Tuxedo suits are worn by youths of from 10 to 1G years. The Tuxedo coat is a sack coat with shawl collar and dress-coat front. It is made of soft black worsteds similar to those used for men's evening clothes. Knee breeches or trousers may be worn as one chooses. If these suits are coneidered extreme, then a three-buttoned, cut away sack may be made of blue or black tricot or diagonal, with a bit of a pique veat showing. 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