TREND OF MEN'S FASHIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 256, 7 October 1931, Page 6

TREND OF MEN'S FASHIONS

WILL THERE BE A VICTORIAN REVIVAL? LONDON, Aug. 29.—Those who follow with an interest in detail the changing fashions in male attire are speculating on the return of.the spotted tie as a pign of the Victorian.-, revival". It seems a long shot to suggest there is all that in it. Sometu::..v'different is always sought after by the smartly dressed, and it is inevitab! i that spots must occasionally take i-eir turn of passing fancy. Alongside the spotted ; le, however, the square of silk worn i .; a scarf has also returned to favour, and this, too, is spotted'. Besides th.i ;, suits : with stripes and checks as worn in pre-war days are again the late;;, thing. Yet this was to be foreseen as the outcome of the many experiments during the last four or five years. The fashion for "pin-head" spots has an enormous popularity so that those who wished to be conspicuous chose larger and still larger spots, many variations were introduced, and now comes the swing of the pendulum back once more to checks and stripes. What is certainly an innovation is the ingenious combination of checks and stripes which gives a very pleasing effect. While the check in itself tends to make the wearer look stocky the stripe, though quite an unobtrusive addition, counteracts this tendency. Tweeds, of course, continue to take first place for country wear, Donegal, Shetland and Harris being chosen according to personal taste which here is not restricted by fashion. The popular ties for country wear are of the new woollen and cashmere variety, and as regards shirts here is certainly something new, namely, the introduction of herring-bone and other patterns to give the appearance of tweeds.

The advantage here is to make golfing, fishing, shooting and so on, "shirt sleeve" occasions. Coats can thus be dispensed with and one can still look dressed. As lor lounge suits, the uouble-breasted is worn only by those who strongly favour this cut, despite any and every change of fashion. The double-breasted suit has a very devoted following and though the latest thing is the single-breasted, the two styles are seen side by side, a state of affairs which may reasonably continue for some time.