MALE FASHIONS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 April 1927, Page 11

MALE FASHIONS

# —— The interesting suggestion is made by a writer in the Paris “Journal (writes the correspondent in that country of the London “Daily Telegraph”) that, instead of tamely. following the. - British - lead —in male fashions, Paris should make a bid for the leadership in this department, just as she leads the world in feminine fashions. To begin with, there is no logical reason whatever why English standards of ; taste in men’s dress should be- set up as an ideal to be copied by the Latin races, who constitute a different type from the Englishman. If the proposed ‘‘fashion offensive’’' needs an excuse or a definite goal, the writer suggests that it should begin with an effort to abolish trousers. There is no reason, he contends, why men should shamefully hide their nether limbs in cylinders, which .seem designed only to liide anatomical -.defects. Women have led the way in this direction by steadily shortening their skirts. Men should show that 3 they, too, have no reason to fear comparison, and should revert to the fashion of knee breeches. All that is required is that a few dozen well-dressed Frenchmen should adopt knee breeches for bath day and evening wear, and proclaim it as the French style. V'ith support frofrn the press, the thing could be done within a week or two, he declares, and French tailors, instead of slavishly copying styles from London. would find Englishmen, Americans, and Italians adopting" their ideas,, _and spreading French male fashions throughout the world. Knee breeches " are bound to come soon, says the writer, and if Paris does not hasten to introduce them London may.