FASHION SPIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 224, 2 September 1936, Page 2

FASHION SPIES.

American Eyes On Empire’s “Key” Men. i ~ A DAILY WATCH. London, August 28. Wherever the King, the Duke of Kent, Mr. Anthony Eden, or the Earl of Westmoreland go, there are spies watching them—American fashion spies. America thinks them the four best-dressed men in the world. They are the chief "key” men of masculine -fashions.

Mr. Benjamin Leibowitz, who represents an American company selling millions of shirts a year, has arrived in London, and recently he revealed to what extent American men follow English fashions. First, he claimed that he American pays more attention to his clothes than does the Englishman of the corresponding class, but he pointed out that styles came from England. “We note every detail of what your ‘key’ men are wearning, what new thing they have introduced,” continued Mr. Leibowitz. “There is always the chance that some innovation in their attire may be followed, thus giving birth to a new style.

“We watch Continental styles as well, but not to the same extent as in England. “As an example of why it is so worth our while to have agents watching your key men,” he declared, “you have only to remember that your King, when Prince of Wales, introduced the loose sweater and the loosefitting dinner jacket, styles which swept America.”