THAT “MALE AIR.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 August 1926, Page 11

THAT “MALE AIR.”

Certain of the young manhood in Paris is annoyed at young womanhood for adopting most of the male garments and haircut, and looking more amusing in them (says the Manchester Guardian). Males retaliated by adopting hips and a waist, and a. fullness about the divided skirt.

Three or four years ago there might have been seen in the Latin Quarter a. stray \\oung man or so who was really a short-haired girl. For the Latin Quarter this was considered suitable. But now that young women go .to the theatre in trousers and dinner jackets, now that they play Rugby in shorts in the heart of aPris, mow that they have their • ‘compets-’’—in ‘other words their male suits- —cut to make them look like “petits maitres,” there seems nothing left for the young men to do.

fiddly enough, the solution of the difficulty has come not from Paris, the source of ideas, but from America. At a well-known college all the young women took to dressing like youiig men to such an extent that it was difficult to tell the difference. They adopted tweeds- without any of the feminine touches which usually mark such efforts. They deprived the young man of all liis best boyish effects by producing them even more attractively. So the young men took counsel. How could they differentiate themselves, what means was there which would not immediate! v be copied by omnivorous feminity. The great idea is always simple. Young manhood decided in a body to grow beards. Tf may be that the next generation will have beards either diplomatic or patriarchal, and that“male air” so beloved of the French will again b a ‘ achieved by means that are entirely hirsute.