MANNERS IN FASHION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 13

MANNERS IN FASHION

WHITE GLOVES FOR MEN

The Bright Young People, of whom we hoar so much, are becoming dimmer. Victorian formalism is ocming into fashion again (states the "Daily Mail"). Two years.ago in a London ball-room the women wore short skirts and short hair, and only a very few wore gloves. The men never even thought of buying gloves. To-day it is different. Long skirts have, brought long gloves for every worn an^ and long hair is gradually creeping, back. And. men are wearing the' old-fashioned white kid gloves —and buttonholes, ■ gardenias or carnations. Nor is this change, confined to the ballroom. The post-war dilettante considered it absurd to answer dance invitations. There were so many of them. The'hostess was lucky if he was able to go—far too; much to expert him to say. he could or could not. He would accept an invitation to dine. But to write and express thanks.for it after the event was beyond;his wildest conception. Again a change. Almost every girl, and a great many men, do write letters of thanks after a dinner party, and there are many hostesses who refuse to ask a young man a second time to a dance if she receives no answer. The return of Victorian manners, in moderation, is a most welcome sign. Perhaps the most pleasing feature is the diminishing use of Christian names. For the last ten years one meeting, or even a mutual acquaintance, was -a sufficient excuse for the adoption if the familiarity of the Christian name. This, too, is going. "Miss" and "Mr." aro heard far more frequently in the ballroom or across the dinner table, and the extra second which the prefix involves doea not seem to leave our Bright Young People short of time.