PROFESSOR’S ATTIRE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 96, 4 February 1936, Page 8

PROFESSOR’S ATTIRE.

COLOURS IN WAISTCOATS. The oldest Felloiv of the Royal Society, Professor H. E. Avho is 87 vears old, Avore a Ai\id mao-enta waistcoat with one lape mauve and the other blue when he spoke after a dinner in the Working Men s College, London, recently. Professor Armstrong said: I Y.int to do everything that everybody else does not do. lam trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen. You cannot persuade men in those days to wear colours. In other days they glorified in colour, in velvet and lace, and the effects were charming. Modern costume is not charming. All mv waistcoats are topical and about each I can tell a story. This one Avas designed by myself in memory of a great chemist who Avas once my teachoi and who introduced these colours in the early days of aniline dyes. “Another caused excitement in Spain a year or tAvo ago. I was cheered in the hall of a leading hotel in .Madrid, and. it Avas not until aftenvard that L realised that I was sporting the Spanish Republican colours.” The rum punch which Avas drunk with the dessert at the dinner was made from a secret recipe bequeathed to the college bv an early benefactor, George Tansley. It has been brewed for the club’s annual dinner for the last 46 years by Mr W. Jones, a retired printer.