TWO WORLD FIGURES IGNORE FASHION STYLES

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29232, 16 June 1960, Page 7

TWO WORLD FIGURES IGNORE FASHION STYLES

"According to the most recent sports from the world’s leading centres, those New Zeajgjd men who have been clinging tenaciously to their old-style, double-breasted suits in the dope that they are due to make a (omeback, seem to be doomed to The slender, natural-shouldered three and twobutton Italian styles are going to be with us for quite a while yet,” an a leading article in the "New Zealand Draper.” “But what the double-breasted piit brigade must find confusing js the fact, that although they jr e told in no uncertain terms .jat the old D.B. is dead, they gje still confronted with plenty of evidence to the contrary. “Examples of this that spring (eadily to mind are two particular photographs which appeared ia our daily press recently of two widely-publicised individuals, Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones and General Charles de Gaulle, both of whom were wearing doublebreasted suits and not looking the {lightest bit guilty about it either,” the article says. "This complete disregard by prominent people of the latest fashion trends must also cause some eyebrow’-raising among dothing manufacturers and retailers who, with the air of gamblers taking the plunge, throw in their lot with the fashr ion lords and provide their cuatomers with the up-to-the-minute styles decreed. “Could Cause Trouble” “With their warehouses and stores crammed with singlebreasted, Continental-style suits, losers if their customers suddenly decided that what is good enough for Mr Armstrong-Jones and General de Gaulle is good enough for them and started demanding double-breasted suits again. "We don’t wish to sound like alarmists, but this could happen. After all, few men bother to read

the fashion pages in their newspapers, but all of them digest the w*™** news reports and see the photographs that go with them. At the sight of famous personage after famous personate wearing old-fashioned suit styles, these readers could easily be led to believe that such styles They would reason that surely “? n . ?/. such calibre as these celebrities and statesmen would Know what they were doing. Yes, this kmd of thinking could cause tr °^ e > says the article. The question is, what can be done to forestall it? Most of the jncn in high places are there because they are rugged individualists. Who would dare to dictate to them .what they must and must not wear? Oh, yes. Occaslonally some group, which considers itself an authority on the subject launches an attack on ‘“ e “, chides them for their lack or fashion awafeness and places them on a hastily drawn-up worst-dressed-men-in-the - publiceye list. But the only effect this seems to have is to make the targets of such criticism moic determined than ever to stick to their out-dated attire. ‘‘Speaking frankly, it all boils down to this: there are those in ? of life who who are individualistic enough not to be led like sheep, who will not be dictated to about anything, least of all fashion. They can be sharp thorns in certain sides, but you can t help having a sneaking regard for them, can you?” says the “New Zealand Draper.”

Tractor Driver z Sought. The police motor accidents branch is seeking to interview the driver of a green Ferguson tractor, with a red blade which is believed to have struck a parked car in Montreal street, between Peterborough and Kilmore streets, at 11.30 a.m. on Tuesday. Extensive damage was caused to the car, apparently from the blade of the tractor. Witnesses to the accident were able to give the tractor’s description but the number was not taken.