Diversions

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 133, 29 February 1936, Page 20

Diversions

RUNNING SHORT ["ln men’s suit styles for the coming spring trousers will be shorter.” —Important fashion note gleaned from the columns of a London evening paper.] How small are the modifications one How slight are the usual changes, When Fashion, progressing by cautious degrees, The mode for the male rearranges! One button the more (or the less) on the cuff Ranks high in that obstinate quarter, So, Boy, this announcement is certainly tough— Our breeks are about to be shorter. How short? Will they shrink like the skirts that of late Left knee-caps exposed on our cuties? Will all be enabled to stare at the state Of the masculine knee and its beauties ? Or is it that tailors will do things by half, And, instead •of the out-and-out snorter, Allow us the trouser that reaches the calf? (And, goodness knows, that would be shorter.) I know not. I give you the news that I saw, ■ Which seems to me frankly fantastic— That Spring will arrive with a trouserleg law That certainly sounds a bit drastic. But perhaps it’s a case of much cry, little wool; For it may be the rumour’s reporter Intended to give our poor leg such a pull As might well make our trousers look ' shdrter. • . ' —Lucio.