PRINCE’S CLOTHING FADS
DESPAIR OF THE TAILORS,
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 2 p.rii.) LONDON, March 13,
The combination of grey check pullover, dinner jacket, soft shirt and double collar, which was worn by the Prince of Wales when presenting prizes to boy boxing champions, has set West End tailors coughing faintly behind their hands. Young men about town, who take the fashion lead from the Prince, are staggered. West End tailors today remind the newspapers that the Prince of Wales has a law unto himself in dress. No one but the Prince is justified in adopting such a startling change from convention as a pullover with evening dross. No one else has sufficient cour-
ago. , / One tailor said that for cold weather attire it was remarkably sensible, but ho waS hopelessly outnumbered.
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Northern Advocate, 14 March 1929, Page 5
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