SILK HATS IN PARIS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 10

SILK HATS IN PARIS

The silk hat is coming into its own again i.i Paris, says the Paris correspondent, of the London Daily .Telegraph. The Jockey Club lias given the signal for its resurrection. The members of this exclusive club have ordained that they shall only wear tho "chapeau de soio" at. race 3. This is not tho only reform affecting masculine attire to bo worn on special occasions. At the opera tho "claque," whiqb. had fallen into desuetude since the war, is to bo revived on subscription nights, and this is tekon to mean that greater attention is to bo paid to dress. Already action had beon taken against men considered to bo negligently attired. They TverC' "refused admittance into tho Opora; their money was returned. It is not a question of going back to that fastidiousness -which was "do rijacur" undor tho Empire; lUc Wea is t.o give more bnlIknco to the Opera. There are three subscription nights in the week—Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Monday has token tho nlaca of Friday as the chic night. It is a case of evening clothes •with a white vest. For Wednesday, I which is less aristocratic than Monday and Friday, the white -waistcoat ran jjivo place I'to a black one. On Saturday and Sunday !*venin3« (.be smoking jacket, can be won). 1 but, this ivill depend on the season and the character of'performance. The season for evening dress at tlis Opera begins in i October, and-eiide 0n.., 14th..July- . -