CLOTHES AND CLIMATE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17607, 9 November 1922, Page 8

CLOTHES AND CLIMATE.

EEPOBM IN SYDKIT. (rnoif OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY, November 1. Several newspapers here have raised a great controversy over men's clothes. Every summer in Sydney someone points out quite unavailingly how unsuitable are the heavy tweed & and stiff collars in which the Sydney business man swelters in the hot weather. But this time the matter is going further. A sorb of "sensible clothes club" has been formed, and its members have, declared for white suits, no collars, Panama hats, and white shoes. A few of them have already had the courage to wear them—and have been promptly snapped by newspaper photographers. The Minister of justice (Mr Ley) has announced that he haa ordered light suits, which he is goiilg to wear without a collar. One of the members of the Legislative Assembly recently entered the Chamber claci all in snowy linen or duck, or some such material, and was incensed at reference made to, the sale of ice-crefl.ni. There are many opponents of the movement, but all the same it looks as though many Sydney people will soon follow the lead of their more sensible brethren in Queensland, who, after the manner of the white people in the Islands, wear clothes more adapted to th,?. climate than the tweeds a ?c' j oo^ens w 'hich the inhabitants of ..ydney array themselves all the year round.