PEACOCK MEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 24 March 1930, Page 7

PEACOCK MEN

Shops that cater for men's wear are just as colourful as those who specialise in frocks and frills for women. In the West End of London the outfitters, in fact, threaten to outdo'the women's fashion shops. A Regent street shop displays gift boxes of orangecoloured shirts and lemon-yellow pyjaina suits.

Silk dressing-frowns, in elaborate patterned Paisley designs, are as bright lined as a summer flower garden. Rich delphinium blue, dahlia colour, royal blue, claret, orange, and sapphire shades, as well as brown and vermilion form striking patterns. Wide girdles of heavy silk cord lavishly tassellcd, finish oft these robes. The newest ties for men are of dazzle and searchlight patterns and slanting shadow designs. Brown shadows, strongly defined, distinguish raspberry pink ties, and blues and reds have sharp shadows of contrasting colours. Handkerchiefs match these.

The winter sports-goer will be a cheerful-looking person when he dons his skis. One of the latest junipers for his holiday is a vivid orange one, decorated with great black clubs, and a twocolour tam-o'-shanter in black and orange, too. "For decades it has been an unwritfnn law that no man will tolerate elastic to support any garments but his locks," said a West End outfitter. "This bogey has suddenly been swept aside.

"In the smartest men's outfitting establishments underclothing is now supported by elastic waistbands instead of tapes. "Pyjajmas, too, are not only fitted ,with'elastic at the hips, but are made. t.o*meas\irc and shr.ped so as to make a perfect fit."