PINK AND LILAC SHIRTS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31344, 14 April 1967, Page 6

PINK AND LILAC SHIRTS

As men's interest in fashion prompts them to pay more attention to colour co-ordination, there is a noticeable tendency to wear pastel blue shirts with grey suits. Similarly, shirts in pink and lilac tones are seen more often.

There are uncompromising men for whom the only possible business shirt is a plain white one. Assuredly plain white will always command a loyal following, but interest in coloured shirts for business wear is growing very decidedly. It is a development that follows naturally on the trend towards richer colourings in men’s suits. Sometimes with these the white shirt co-ordinates less effectively than a coloured one. Consider, for example, how a pale blue shirt can help to bring out the subordinate colours that glow in the weave in suits of the new compounded blues. The same with cream, maize and pale gold shirts. Their current popularity is directly linked with the fashion rating of brown suits in the new shades like tobacco and spice. White shirts are not going to lose their appeal; it is just that men are going to abandon the convention that white is the only proper colour for business wear.