A LETTER FROM LONDON

Northern Advocate, 13 July 1925, Page 2

A LETTER FROM LONDON

NEWS AND NOTES',

(Special to "Northern Advocate.")

: LONDON, May 21. DRESSING LONDON. A young hostess, who during the ' London season never dines at home more than once a fortnight, was complaining today that fashion is malcing ever greater demands in the matter of 1 dress. Last season it was the usual . thing when invited to a small dinner for the men to wear dinner jackets and I the women simple "dinner frocks" ' with perhaps a string of pearls. This J season, however, everyone is wearing [ "full regalia" on almost any occasion, and the man who wears a dinner jacket, | unless specifically asked to by his [ hostess, runs the' risk of finding himself the only man not in white waistcoat and a gardenia. An invitation to a theatre party now implies diamonds and a ball dress, and even an invitation to bridge does not justify "simple dressing.'' All of which makes life vory difficult for the woman of limited means. "BREKKER" TOO. Eventually some people, I suppose; will dispense with dining-rooms and kitchens at home altogether. Presumably they may turn the former into ;a dancing salon and the latter into a lis-tening-in cosy. The habit of taking meals at restaurants, which was a feature of London life in i,he middle class suburbs even before the war, has been growing amazingly since. But I confess it amazes me to learn that nowadays even breakfast at a restaurant is a regular habit with a lot of people. People with moderate middle-class incomes, living in flats and dispensing with all servants, take their "brekkers" like their dinner, at the nearest ' cafe. It is usually a curiously stereo- | typed meal and evidently the London j suburbs are not yet "wise" to the ad- ' vantage of the American fruit 1 "brekker." (All Rights Reserved.)