Influence on Fashions for Men Loudon.—The male members of the royal family have for generations set the styles for masculine wear in England, and therefore indirectly for the entire world. This has never been more pronounced than at the present time, and the fashion makers watch with unweary eye for the least change, or the appearance of a new style, in royal garments, It wag the Prince of Wales who introduced the small checked bow tie, the coloured collars, and the fancy socks so popular a few years ago, Since the /rinve first appeared Wearing a morning coat, soft shirt, and tumed over stiff collar, this has been the standard wear for the mau about town. The Prince is in the habit of wearing his hat, particularly the silk variety, slightly tilted, and to-day old mem and young men may be seen with headdress similarly arranged at any time of the day or night on the fashionable thoroughfares of the West End.
The latest contribution of the Prince to the fashionable world, however, ig the dinner jacket, which has generally been avoided by the best dressed men as being too informal for formal or informal necessities. (Few dinner jackets have been worn in London in the past, as compared with their wide use in America, and they were rarely used for the theatre.
The Prince appeared in one at a dinner party before his trip to the Far East, and since that time the dinner jacket has made great inroads into the popularity of full dress attire, His Royal Highness appeared a few week ago at a dinner dance attired in a dinner gulf of black with a faint white stripe, vest of black silk trimmed with a fine white edge and a black bow tie, also with a white edge. Now the latest dinner suits shown are of this cloth. The dandies of the West End appear at their favourite haunts dressed in the Prince of Wales' latest.
The coat for winter street wear for the coming season will be of heavy - material, huge collar and probably belted, for the Prince appeared in such a coat at a recent gathering in Scotland.
Golf attire is not ignored by the "royal family, and the newest outfit for the course is a knickerbocker suit of homespun wool vest bright. colours, and checkered cap. This is the attire worn by the Prince when he recently "played himself in" at St. Andrews,
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