WARDROBES AND WHIMS

Evening Star, Issue 20780, 30 April 1931, Page 4

WARDROBES AND WHIMS

WHAT FAMOUS MEN WEAR GUIDE TO CHARACTERS “ I know all about the characters of my customers,” said a West End, London, tailor to a ‘Daily Express’ correspondent recently. “A man’s jackets, his overcoats, his hats are as good an indication of his real self as his features or his conversation.” Then the correspondent put the tailor to the tost. He obtained from other West End tailors the secrets of the wardrobes of their famous clients, and asked him to describe each man’s character. (1) The first “subject” of the test dresses well on ceremonial occasions. Looks smart tin impeccable morning or evening dress'. In sporting wear is inclined to indulge in gaudy pull-overs. Wears his sports clothes jauntily. Often defies fashion; usually leads it. Opinion; A man who can be serious when the occasion demands it, but has an adventurous nature, and likes surprising people. Taste'must be good. (2) Buys good, well-cut clothes, but never looks well dressed. Suits usually baggy. Feels at his best in rough tweeds and loggings. Opinion: A sincere man who does not liko to worry about detail. Probably prefers a quiet, undisturbed life out of the limelight. (3) Dresses in the grand manner. Always a model of dignity. Scorns lounge suits and wears impeccably-cut morning dross, quiet but distinguished ties, and a shining silk hat. Opinion: A staunch Conservative, n little backward in his ideas. Probably haughty in manner. (4) Wears long coats with astrakhan collars and a variety of strange hats. Follows no fashion but his own whim.

Opinion; Enjoys the pose of unconventionality, but probably docs not care what people think of him. A man with more versatility than judgment. (5) Can appear to be comfortable in a well-cut morning suit and silk hat, or evening dross clothes, but prefers an untidy, baggy, and shiny suit. Opinion: A good mixer evidently. A man who can get on well with all types. Not too orderly a mind. _ (6) Tweed suits with old-fashioned knickers, Norfolk jackets, and flannel suits. When ho does venture into evening dress wears a strange garb of his own invention—velvet jacket, soft shirt, and turn-down collar. Opinion: A man who does not care what other people think. Completely unconventional. First thought for his own comfort. A man who refuses to follow anyone else. (7) Formal, wears old-fashioned frock coat, stiff high collar, and a silk hat.

Opinion: A trillo out of date. Not much sense of humour. Very respectable.

(8) Prefers frock coat and silk hat ‘fashion, but livens dross occasionally with a pink shirt; wears a buttonhole. Opinion: Old-fashioned type, but with a sporting side in him. (9) Suits from first-class tailors, but always creased all over. Likes velvet smoking jacket for the house and a flowing capo for the country. Opinion: A man of vigour; also a trifle theatrical, but with a secret longing to bo really lazy. The men concerned arc as follow;

(1) The Prince of Wales, (2) Mr Stanley Baldwin, (8) Sir Austen Chamberlain, (4) Mr Winston Churchill, (5) Mr J. H. Thomas, (fi) Mr G. Bernard Shaw, (7) “Jix” (Lord Brentford), (8) Lord Lonsdale, (9) Mr Lloyd George.