NAPOLEON IN TROUSERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 12

NAPOLEON IN TROUSERS

NEW MALE FASHIONS. WANTED 1 HARIS, May 6. (From time to time an effort is made fioni some quarter or another to induce man to change his style of dress. But man is conservative, and the enthusiasts or cranks, who start such movements are generally doomed to hitter disappointment. For some time attention lias been directed to the anti-cellar agitation, and great hopes were entertained by its leaders when a shirt with a soft collar was put on the market in aid of the scheme. The great enemy aimed at in Ibis revolt against convention was, of course, the stiff collar; Imt Hint starched ahorjnnation seems to lie in no danger yet. of being ousted, ami the shirt with the sott upper ling, which is really no collar, caught on with few ajvri from the literary and artistic colony of the Latin Quarter, Now 9 is the trouser that is ’.being al tacked, ‘and one of the objects of the first Salon do la Mode Masculine, which has just been opened, is to throw ridi rule on that gannenl. A\ e arc all being urged In wear the knee breeches of our great, grandfathers—or at least some now or identical breeches and the promoters of the salon imagine that the pictures and caricatures there on view will do something lo bring about this reform. Among the most striking ot the caricatures are those showing Louis Xl\.. Henri III;, and Napoleon in trousers.