BRIGHT COLOURS FOR MEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)

BRIGHT COLOURS FOR MEN.

Though men are inclined to adopt a superior attitude when referring to the feminine craze for colour as expressed in jumpers, cretonne frocks, and sunshades, they themselves are showing a strong partiality for bright colours this season, though, of course, in a restricted manner (says a writer in an English caper). Being very conservative, they still adhere to navies and greys and fawns for suits—a man who had sufficient courage to walk dovn Band Street in a pink linen suit or to attend a smart race meeting in a shantung suit would consider himself eligible for a sartorial D.S.O.but have you ever seen such brilliantly-coloured socks and handkerchiefs and dressinggowns as are now being shown in the shops that deal in men's wear? "There is no happy medium in men's taste for colour,' remarked a Piccadilly shirt-maker. "Men either want the most vivid colours and combinations of colours, or else they prefer the most subdued— we call 'bread and cheese' colours. It is either one extreme or the other." In regard to ties, however, the well-dressed man will have nothing gaudy. Indeed, with' 80 per cent, black is now the most favour colour for ties, so a man-about-town vho prides himself on his correctitude, told me. He rightly concludes that a black tie is usually most, effective, especially when a daintily-hued shirt is 'worn and other touches of colour are noticeable in his "toilette," such as brilliant socks and a striped or elaborately-patterned handkerchief, one corner of which issues boldly out of his coat-pocket.