DRESS REFORM
NEW DESIGNS COMPETITION. LONDON, May 17. The Dominions are invited to participate in a competition for new designs for men’s organised by the Men’s Dress Reform Party. Dr. Alfred Jordan, the president, told the Sun: "We have won im the sphere of sport, in which men cun now wear anything—shorts for tennis, slips and trunks for bathing. Now we are concentrating on office and professional wear and ceremonial evening wear, which is now most idiotic and unhealthy.
. ‘‘The new styles should be adaptable to varying temperatures and activities, Thus, a costume might he designed so that an outer garment is removable, without impairing the general effect.” Competition can go the limit on imagination. For example, there is no reason why a toga costume should not win. Trousers are not essential. The competition closes on June 1. Dr. Jordan suggests that travellers from the antipodes should make np materials on shipboard while they are journeying to England.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1937, Page 6
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