THE TAILLESS DRESS-COAT.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1578, 25 February 1887, Page 3

THE TAILLESS DRESS-COAT.

Au aitempt is being made to introduce the tailless dress-coat iu New York. A correspondent says:—"l have been out of New York and its environs for several months, and during: that tirno the tailless coat has come and made a shame-faced effort to to take its place with other coats. I knew nothing of it until I encountered it suddenly at Tuxedo Park last night in all its hideous and hybrid deformity. A tall youth wore it. He was very thin and lank, with sharplv defified shoulder-blades and a slim neck always inclined forward. His trousers were as loose as meal sacks and hung in folds over his legs, and on his head was a little polo cap of blue gold. The came to an end above the waist—liko an Eton jacket, in a word—and the shirt, waistcoat, tie, and all were as usually worn by gentlemen at dinner. Around his waist the owner of the tailless coat had wound a long scarf of white silk shct with arrows of pale blue. I will do him the credit to admit that he acknowledged that he looked like a guy, and talked without reserve about his pet garment. Indeed, Ido not remember that he talked of anything else. ' There is, of course,' he said, with a British intonation of the voice, no particulah reason foh the scawf, but I wearit because the buttons of one's trousahs look so awfully coarse and common, showing, you know, beneath the—ah —back of the coat. In India one wraps one's waist in the scarf, to keep off the—ah —chills, you know, and as the coat is heah, why not go the scarf too ?' A dozen or more leaders of the English set have been booming the tailless coat, but I fear it will not do. Jackets appeal to the heart of every man. Who does not slip off the 'claw-hammer' and swagger around home with his hands in the pockets of an old sack coat, worn over evening clothes, when no strangers are about F But the tailless dress-coat will not do. It is too startling and uncouth a chauge." The statement that the tailless drees-coat is " a London fashion " is of course correctly described as untrue.—Figaro.