ACADEMY SUIT

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1936, Page 3

ACADEMY SUIT

“LIKE HOAD CASUALTY.” LONDON, May -I. Mr Clarence White’s-portrait of Mr Hore-Belisha is—according to the “Tailor and Cutter” critic—one of the outstanding sartorial horrors oi. this year’s Academy. His suit “looks like a casualty in a motoring accident,” declares the critic. “He preaches saletV first, but his attire looks badly mauled. Don’t blame his tailor; who neither sold him such cloth nor cut such garb. Suit is clumsy, heavy and dull. Perhaps an orange-coloured tie would have livened it up.” Among other Academy dress strictures are: Sir William. Rothenstein’s SelfPortrait. —Waistcoat buttons the wrong way—probably because it was done before a mirror. Mr Francis Dodd, R.A. (by Stephen Bone). —The Academician is made to look more like a retired sea captain than an artist. He wears a poor double-breasted reefer, inches short in front. Trousers are disreputable, uncreased and coming aboVe tops of shoes. Mr W. Favill Take, Chairman of Barclays Bank Ltd. (by Bertram Priestman, R.A.). —Jacket suffers from ungainly collar and lapels and is in bad’ Condition generally. It gives the impression that something’ 1 ' is wrong with finance. Mr Charles Marriott (by Ethel Walker) —We regret to say that, altlitiugh tlie work of a lady, clothes are in: ‘ The worst Academy tradition. Jacket is all rags and tatters, null ana void of shape—a nightmare garment. Such Clbth was never made by mortal hands, nor by the fairies.