MEN'S DRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

MEN'S DRESS.

D'ORSAYS AND BRUMMELLS. EVERLASTING FASHIONS. Men's dress has become so standardised , f . that the sight of a man in a large stock, grey bowler hat with a curly brim and check trousers is a memorable event. Anything approaching dandyism is regarded with suspicion—and yet there are a few D'Orsays and Brummells who strut like superior ghosts amid the mass of drab ants, in their unromantic clothes. I know one figure who is sometimes to be seen in Bohemian circles, says the writer, and when he enters a studio or a restaurant he brings something of the gallantry and gaiety of the Regency with his personality. , He might, indeed, be the youthful and handsome Regent himself—and we are' glad that at least one man in the company has the courage of certain sartorial convictions. But where does he get tliostj details of his wardrobe that make him so conspicuous, the collar and stock, and who cuts his - clothes with that almost 1830 touch? ' Dare we ask him ? I fancy not—but I am told tllat there are haberdashers %in London who were established before the reign of Queen Elizabeth. They keep certain fashions always on hand. They might even be able to supply us with doublet" and hose —if we want them.