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Dressing like a Gentleman - In The Country
Gay-colored socks and ties are quite appropriate with
flannels or golf tweeds. Only in your riding clothes you must again be
conservative. If you can get boots built on English lines, wear them; otherwise
wear leggings. And remember that all leather must be real leather in the first
place and polished until its surface is like glass.
Have your breeches fit you. The coat is less important, in
fact, any odd coat will do. Your legs are the cynosure of attention in riding.
Most men in the country wear knickerbockers with golf
stockings, with a sack or a belted or a semi-belted coat, and in any variety of
homespuns or tweeds or rough worsted materials. Or they wear long trousered
flannels. Coats are of the polo or ulster variety. For golf or tennis many men
wear sweater coats. Shirts are of cheviot or silk or flannel, all with soft
collars attached and to match.
The main thing is to dress appropriately. If you are going to
play golf, wear golf clothes; if tennis, wear flannels. Do not wear a yachting
cap ashore unless you are living on board a yacht.
White woolen socks are correct with white buckskin shoes in
the country, but not in town.
If some semi-formal occasion comes up, such as a country tea,
the time-worn conservative blue coat with white flannel trousers is perennially
good.
