TROUBLED TAILORS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 31

TROUBLED TAILORS

!• The human forru (male sex) which Carlyle likened to a curiously forked radish, often requires a good deal of [careful dressing to make it moderately presentable; but few men live up to the ideal, expounded at the conference of merchant tailors, of spending one-fifi**" of their annual income on clothes, says (the Melbourne "Age" London correspondent The £1000 a year man wai< taken as the criterion, and tailors' bills, yearly amounting to £200, were described as the modest minimum he should incur. Very few men, alas foe them, get anywhere near that figure; why even Jack Buchanan, one of the apparently best-dressed men in town, says he spends considerably less than £50 per annum on suits and coats. And the tailors think, too, that the 8.8.C. is remiss in failing to arrange fashion talks for men. They deplore particularly that cult for comfortable clothes —they choose to call it slovenly dress— which men have adopted since the war, and think the 8.8.C. should help to rectify this. People, however, are sufficiently critical of the "8.8.C. accent,* without giving them "8.8.C. suits" to make cutting remarks about.