DRESSING IN "HOUSE"

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 15

DRESSING IN "HOUSE"

ACTRESS'S PROTEST

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, March 2. After a deputation of leading actors and of London to members of Parliament in connection with the request for relief in entertainment taxation, the "Daily Mail" published an interview ,with Mme. Delysia. "These M.P.'s of yours, no,. they are not pretty on the whole. Some looked like fierce bull-fighters. I have seen that type in Spain, with hair all over, the place and very red in the face." Although she admitted there were some very handsome men among them, whom she would' like to meet, there were others who were.dressed a little bit too neglige. -"I was very, much surprised to see this," she continued, "because tho English are still the bestdressed men in the world, and I should havo thought that in the House of Commons, which I am told is a very respectable place, the M.P.'s would have turned themselves .out more delicately. Light-coloured lounge- suits->-even tweeds; and soft blue and green collars. This should not be in your,

Houses of Parliament. . Surely there, I at least, men ought to wear stiff white collars. Clothes moan a great deal to i the character of a' man—or of a woman. "A man loses dignify and self-respeot and even his work suffers when he becomes negligent in his dress. If your shoes are clean your soul is clean, too. You cannot do your best if they are dirty. That is why I was so sorry to see how careless in. dress some of the ;M.P.'s are becoming. They ought to set an example. They would feel ever so much better if they went back to the formality of black and to top hats. - They might even realise then how important it is to do away with the entertainment tax."