LADIES' COLUMN.

Evening Post, Issue 51, 29 February 1908, Page 11

LADIES' COLUMN.

EARL TURNED AWAY FROM A RESTAURANT. There is still ono restaurant in London, ana -inly one, where tho clothes aro of more importance than the man. The Savoy restaurant has emphasised its proud position in this respect by turning away an carl because ho wa3 not in evening nttire. r t made no difference that the victim held one of the proud^3t and tho most ancient titles in England. A coronet, in the eyes of the head waiter at the Savoy Hotel, is all very well in its way, but tho real "guinea stamp"' is the dress suit. Many of the big restaurants earnestly desire that their guests shall bo coramo il faufc in the matter rf evening dross, but they are willing to mako allowancss for differences in national habit or for emergencies. But tha Savoy stands firm. It, is truo a dress euit can bo J hired for a few shillings, and therefore cannot have any great , significance,^ bub the head waiter has his orders, and he carries them out regardless of rank. For him tho whole wide world is divided into two classes, those in evening dress and those without. To the latter he is polite, but firm. No^,v, the Ritz Hotel is as fashionable as any hotel need be. The manager piefors that everyone should be dressed, but he recognises that this is sometimpft impossible. Jfhe manager of tho Rita is not without a senso t humour, for he adds that tho chief difficulty is not with those vfho have too much dress, but with those who have not enough. The managers of Claridge's and the Carlton Hotel are similarly commonsensible. It is the custom among American . and French women to wear hats With dinner gowns. The manager of tfw Carlton says, "Their hats ate generally beanliful, and it would be felly U, insist that the wearers should remove them before entering the restaurant; it would be absurd to insist that strangers forsake their customs and ideas of good tasto to take up with ours." — Tho Argonaut.