MEN’S CLOTHES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3383, 18 July 1927, Page 2

MEN’S CLOTHES.

Foothill Beekford writes in the “London 1 Daily Mail”-

Tiie Opera at Covent Garden may not come up to tiie standard of that heard in New York, but where the dressing of the house is concerned

! ovent Garden leaves the Metropolitan mile.-; behind. For in London men still live up to the tradition of wearing (lie evening tail coat, white tie. and white waistcoat at the Opera. Il is true that since the war white

kid gloves have not been worn as in the past, but one night recently a not-

aide follower of the old fashion was .Lord llarewood. I saw only one other pair in the stalls. Buttonholes were very prominent, clove red and white carnations being the favourites. .Jewelled buttons were also much in evidence---a sign of the times perhaps.

l.ooking round the packed house J saw that black ties wore so few that they were conspicuous, for, ns I. have said, nearly every man 'wore the evening tailed coat and white tie, and what a variety of styles there was in waistcoats! Some of the younger and perhaps the more musical type preferred 11.I 1 . ■ double-breasted model, cut straight ol the waist, but carrying a square ope,aing.

Again, we had double-breasteds with only one-button, the centre forming a V, but the good old-fashioned single-breasted waistcoat with three buttons nt the waistline, and double--I,misted lapel matching the shirt, was (lest favourite. There were not any innovations to lie chronicled under the heading of evening wear. Again the young set showed a preference for that evening tailed coat, launched last year, reminiscent of the iI.S-10 period because of its short lapel and high waist: but the coal that was most popular was a very firm-fitting one,- broad across the shoulders, wide lapels, rolling, long, pointed tails —iu fact, a garment that gave one the impression that it bad been moulded on the figure. A conspicuous wearer of a dinner jacket carrying a shawl collar, with the old-fashioned black satin stock tie and white waistcoat, which he has made famous, was Hie Marquis of t.oiidond'UTv, who sat far back - in tiie stalls. The si Ik hat was everywhere; the epera hat certainly seems to be going Hie wav of the summer straw.

The following .specimen of restrained reporting appears in a Shanghai news-paper:--“A carpenter picked up a bomb in CTiapoi (adjoining the Confessions) yesterday. Lie showed it to some curio collectors. He threw the bom!) on the ground. He won’t pick up any more bombs. .They won’t collect any more curios.” The account is beaded: “Bomb does its stuff when treated rough.”