FASHIONS FOR MEN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 141, 20 June 1911, Page 2

FASHIONS FOR MEN.

Nowadays yonng men who belong to "Society" in Europe and even in cosmopolitan America are becoming as keenly interested in xhe cut. of their clothes and the* color of their socks■ *>.s their womenkind are in the "creations" which originate mostly in Paris. In the restricted field of men;s comparatively sober clothing there would seem to be little room 'for invention, and it would be difficult to imagine any radical alteration in ths. prevailing mode of dress, but each summer brings its. own demand for "something new." London i# the homo of the fashions for men, and it has done its duty for the summer that is gust beginning. Tho popular suit is to be of "shot" material. On a dark ground are super-imposed close together tiny ribbed lines of some lighter color. The blending of the two colors produces the shimmering effect that has been made familiar to- most of us only by the costumes of the gentler sex. The shot materials are described by the experts as "quiet, yet original and very smart," but tha tailors of Saville Row arid Bonn Street have to cater for German ani South American customers, who "find English clothes a little too quiet for them. ' The most exacting of these patrons, no doubt, will be content with a shot material of purple ond bright red, set off perhaps with a "bandana handkerchief tie of green purple, yellow and blue. Square silk handkerchiels made up into sailors' knots are to be fashionable ties, the colors being blue* with white spots, plain "mist" grey, and "a. very soft shade of puce." It is» comforting to know that the young man who is to be resplendent in a shot suit will practise some moderation in his dressing, if only in his ties and perhaps his socks. Some of the London clothiers, by the way, are sadly perturbed over the question of socks. The demand for very bright socks lias fallen aw:iy

owing to the popularity of "spats." An attempt to have trousers turned up so that the tops of the socks would show lias failed. Probably some young men will be consoled:< for the loss of their resplendent socks by a substantial reduction in their clothing bills.