SHIRTS FOR SHIP OR SHORE

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30980, 9 February 1966, Page 2

SHIRTS FOR SHIP OR SHORE

While women are so well catered for in casual wear, men are not being neglected. Shirts for boating, lounging, cruising, in fact almost any weekend activity, are available. Certainly there should be no complaints about lack of variety in style or colour. In a preview of leisure shirts for next summer, Lichfield (N.Z.) Ltd, showed to the retail trade in Christchurch yesterday just what influence the world-wide trend to the sea will have on men’s clothing. The showing coincided with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the firm. Taking the form of a fashion cruise around the Pacific “ports of paradise” static stands representing various islands showed artfully arranged displays of shirts in every colour and style. Noumea inspired rain-cool-ed colours of olive green, slate blues, grey and sandy brown in shirts with comfortable one-piece collars. These would be first choice in informality for the less adventurous man. Bold Plaids For the young man, always willing to try the new and different, the bold plaids of the “Madras look” should appeal. In vivid reds, deep blues and white the random checks are styles in long sleeved shirts or the new short sleeved Henley model which is collarless and designed to be worn over bell bottomed slacks. The scarlet mountie shi had black cuffs, button from, and collar, and shoulder tabs. Hawaii is the place for the “shirt jacs,” which seem sure to compete for attention with the bikinis in New Zealand beaches next summer. Features include the big zip—running from waist to neck and ending in a large brass ring—the Mondrian look in black and white stripes and cuts, and contrasting panels. Other leisure shirts featured chambrays, open-tex-tured fabrics with Polynesian embroidered motifs in tropi-i cal shades of papaya, lime and banana. The spectacular' “big beat” checks of Tahiti; were shown in the island’s; favourite colours—ming, gold ’ lime. red. Competing Stripes Stripes, from neat “traditionals” through multi-col-oured block stripes to bold “competition stripes”—a contrast of colour over a pale base—were as popular as ever. Collars came in short button-down or round point styling as well as long and regular button downs. The rough, husky look of

new textures was also shown in boucle effects, and the touch of coconut, palm bark and coir weaves. Here the colours were cool blends of grey, white, and black, or several shades of blue.

Young boys who want to : wear the styles their older brother sports, were not forgotten. A range of the same styles in smaller sizes has ■ been selected, and is called “teenmen” wear.