MEN'S FASHIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 20

MEN'S FASHIONS.

Certain Frenchmen are endeavouring to recreate Paris as the centre of the men's wear' world, a position which she held in the ISfch century, but I am afraid that the costumes arid ideas now being set forth or launched will meet with very little' favour, for the simpler reason that they are not practical, says a fashionable English tailor. One of the suggestions is to substitute knee-breeches for trousers. During the reign of King Edward VII. an effort was made in England to introduce kneebreeches for wear with evening clothes. It failed lamentably, because when the King saw some of his friends' legs he requested their immediate return to the allcovering trousers. The abolition of the linen collar has also been mooted, its place being taken by the open Bvronic neck and flowing tie. This from ,the outset defeats itself, because of its effeminacy. English clothes are copied and popular throughout the cilivised world because of their essentially masculine properties. Another movement is the so-called revival of colour. Here, again, nothing but black or very dark naw blue is possible for wear in the evening, but colour is given fall play in the sports field, though once more it is restrained when it comes to what is worn during business hours.