Shirts

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31378, 25 May 1967, Page 12

Shirts

Sir, —I was very surprised to read Mr J. R. Vincent’s reply to “Sark’s” letter on shirts. I know that fashions are changing all the time, but everyone should be catered for. Who wants a shirt like a tent, as he says? But there are older people who prefer the longer shirts. A working man prefers a decent length in shirts. The trouble is today that only the younger generation are catered for. Remember that there are as many older people in the country too. —Yours, etc., AN OLD ’UN. May 23, 1967.

Sir, —Thank you for referring my letter, and my thanks also to Mr Vincent for his reply. Quite frankly, I can see no “obvious reason” for reducing the length of a shirt other than that of cutting down on material in order to produce an apparently cheaper article. Who cares about contour when he is snowraking, or sitting on a tractor, or in a maimai, or, for that matter, following any outdoor vocation in the winter? Furthermore, my contour is convex, whereas the next customer with the same arms and neck measurements may be concave. Perhaps I would have made my point more forcibly if I had signed myself “Brass Monkey” instead of . . . Yours, etc., SARK. May 23, 1967. [This correspondence is now closed. Ed., “The Press.”]