WHAT TO WEAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1938, Page 3

WHAT TO WEAR

EMBARRASSED ETONIANS Some Etonians, their COl ’ t,del ( shaken by the appearance on | Fourth o£ June of relatives in tlanne. trousers, tweed coats, and green poihpie bats, are, said a recon issue of the “Eton College Chronicle, »i< J pling with “the anxious problem of what to wear at Lord’s.” “Perhaps this modern mania suede shoes, purple socks and green pork-pies is merely a reaction again si the/ drab fashions of the last filty or sixty years,” the writer comments. " Although Etonians in conventional costume felt “embarrassed and as mm, ed at being so pinch behind the times, the new sartorial fashions are not a together condemned. -A movement in favour of more I colourful costumes would he entire y | praiseworthy.’’ the “Chronicle adds I “We have been dressed too long in [black or navy blue. Too long haie •we looked like undertakers m top j hats, or ridiculous in bowlers. I “The clothes which our Victorian I grandparents wore, if they were drab, (were at least well cut and worn with a certain elegance ami distinction: 1 and the men who wore them would have averted their eyes in horror irom I the creaseless flannels and bilious ties | which were to be seen on Upper Club | on the Fourth.

“The top-hat. if it is sometimes pompous, or when worn by an Etonian, ridiculous, at least is not vulgai like the pork-pie hats and check doth caps which men wear to-day. “The unconscious reaction to (lie spat and stiff collars of our parents and grandparents is not proceeding in the right direction; if it is allowed t.o proceed any further, we will he walking down Bond Street, in polo sweaters ami plus fours.”