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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23690, 23 December 1938, Page 5

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A men’s fashion note describes slight changes in the cut of evening dress clothes, but says nothing about colour, comments the Manchester Guardian. The inexorable rule of black has lasted for more than a century. It is said that Bulwer Lytton’s novel “ Pelham." published in 1828. set this fashion, which has proved so persistent. Everybody read “Pelham," and apparently the remark on men’s wear Toy the mother of the hero struck home. She says to him, “I did not like that blue coat when last I saw you. You look best in black, which is a great compliment. for people must be very distinguished in appearance to do so.” In his unfinished biography of his father the novelist's son commented: “ Lord Oxford told me that the adoption of black for evening wear dates from the publication of ‘Pelham.’ Till then evening dress coats were of different colours —brown, green, or blue, according to the fancy of the wearers.”