PARK'S LATEST FREAK.

Evening Star, Issue 11891, 20 May 1903, Page 7

PARK'S LATEST FREAK.

The Paris correspondent of the 'Pall Mall Gazette' says: Now that the trees which border the Champs Elysees are sprouting into green, young Paris looks for vernal novelties in dress, and finds them in the "Engliscb." shops upon the Boulevards. Of the ladies' fashions I will say nothing, save that they are charming, bat those of young Parisians of the other, sex call for a word of comment. To begin with, they are very English. We know this from the labels in the Boulevard shop windows, where shirts, ties, trouserings, and coat materials bear weird inscriptions of this sort: "Schirtings de Londres,"

"Owrmtos du high life," «BtH«grie-loiV lifyß.'' There ace odd-looking UnkOong stacks -with silver-banded bandies, "Faak- ' cols fashion-ablest," and a great deal mote nomenclature of the same 1 kind. Everything must wear an "English" name if it is to be sold, and in the shop windows the labels are the quaintest portion of the no-" vehaes. But. when he is dressed *'a Fanglaise," Young Paris would attract Verowd in Bond street. He belongs mainly„to the shopkeeping class, for he is rarely to bs seen abroad except on Sundays, and he wears, with a light heart, a long frock coat with a velvet collar, brown boo6v a bilycock hat, and a green tie, which flaps in the spring breeze above a pleated pnrpu shirt His collar is " stand up torn down," and even more "struggle-for-lifer" (if this trio of words means anything at all) than is his cane; bnt tell him that he is not dressed in the latest English fashion, and be will laugh at you. It is not easy to get quiet British clothes or small accessories in Paris, except at truly British shops, and I remember being told last year, when I protested against shrieking patterns land ipaint shapes, that precisely similar costumes had been made for " two most fashionable London cotillon leaders, Sir Wilfred Lawson and-MHor" Hicks BeachP