POORLY DRESSED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 6

POORLY DRESSED

TAILOR’S VIEW OF HOME ‘WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED’ England’s reputation for tailoring is a myth, according to Mr. Maurice Davis, a prominent Melbourne tailor, who passed through Auckland on Friday on his return from a visit to (treat Britain. “Well-dressed men in 'England are lew and far between,” he said. “Outside the cities they are not well dressed, and inside, the majority of suits one sees on the men are just, ordinary. New Zealand and Australia, cannot learn anything from styles abroad, as lar as tailoring is concerned. Tn, regard lo lit we are certainly in. advance. Referring, then to what, “(lie welldressed men would be wearing this season,” Air. Davis said that the new materials for men all showed a tendency towards more colour. Various shades of brown would' be the fashion this year, and they would be made up with two-button coats. “The old morning coat lias entirely disappeared from the City,” lie said. “Nowadays the frock coat is extinct. Formal morning dress is used only for Plate functions, and the City man wears instead a black lounge coat and! vest, with striped trousers. The high beaver bat, too, has disappeared. In its use, now it is a uniform, worn only by bank messengers and the like.”