NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13234, 20 July 1906, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

RADIANT MAN

Mai.k tires*, according to a London paper, is undergoing a marvellous transformation. The drab dulness is showing signs of giving place to the opposite extreme, and men are beginning to vie with women in the brilliancy of their garments. The favourite colour of the moment would seem to-be green. A distinguished academician hast been seen wearing lounge jacket of that colour edged with brown. Again, .Mr. Martin Harvey has adopted it, and so have other actors, but they have so far eschewed the .bright grass-green which the more advanced young man has adopted. Suits of vivid blue have also been observed of late. There is apparently no limit to individual taste in dress, though it would be rather difficult to outdo a gentleman who was seen a few days ago in the Bayswater Bwid. He was weaving a pair of

white flannel trousers, & violet shirt, a Naming scarlet tie, a bright blue jacket, ii parti-coloured waistcoat, a pair of yellow hoots, and a black .silk bat. He was not a Christy minstrel, Vint a mow or less ordinary citizen. As for the'.'mens shops, their windows are a lot of colour. Here one may see waistcoats with crossbars of vivid green and no less vivid white'.on a grey ground, and : cap* with colossi checks. The ties form not a feast'hut an org of colour. Some of them are "shot" until one thinks of Nero's. famous mullet of vermilion dying in an ecstasy of azure. The crudity of colour, however, is by no means accompanied by crudity of price. Some of the latest designs in shirts literally blaze. Some of - the more modest are light green, -with a subtle bilious tinge worked in, and ornamented with dots, while a light- purple material, also dotted, thrusts : itself forward to suggest the background of an early Jan Van Beers. The chic thing is evidently to make the handkerchief match the shirt. Until this year men were generally content to use a white handkerchief with perhaps a border of colour. Now the handkerchief is all border, and if there is any suggestion of white at all it is a stripe in the edge as an apology for what used to he. All this flamboyance is not merely outward. All the colours of the rainbow may be found in what our American cousins call, the underwear department. If a man m please he may change the colour of his undergarments every day of the ■ week, and sleep in. pyjamas of similar tints. Or he may array himself to resemble a Neapolitan ice, a subtle suggestion perhaps for keeping cool at- night during the dog days.