ABSTRACT
The accompanying sketch gives a suggestion for improved evening dress for gentlemen, to consist of coat, waistcoat, and knee-breeches of velveteen, silk stockings and shoes, preferably with buckles. The colour would be left to the taste of the wearer, but it would probably be discreet to begin with very quiet colours, such as brown, purplish, or bronze, or russet, or deep quiet greens, or black. It is strongly urged that the shirt should be also of creamy-white silk, necessarily thinner and softer than the waistcoat, and preferably whiter. Corah silk is probably the best forth purpose. The collar should be turned down, the material being unsuitable for a stand-up collar, and the cuffs might be frilled, hanging rather low upon the hand, the coat-sleeve being rather short. In designing this dress the chief aim has been to provide something quiet and dignified, not departing widely from existing forms of dress.
