LABOUR ME N—DRESS SUITS.
Mr Robert Lyncl, writing in the Lon- : don Daily News on tlie controversy as : to whether Labour leaders should wear ! evening dress, says : “As regards evening clothes, I con ■ less quite frankly that I possess them, ! and that I feel no sudden inflow of I vice into my system when I put them on to go out to dinner. If I have ! any criminal tendencies, they flourish ' as freely when I am in my shabbiest suit as when I am wearing a white waistcoat. Nor do my politics change 1 with my clothes any more than my morals do. The truth is all the denunciations of evening dress, as though it were the mark of a snob and an anti-democrat to wear it, are nonsense. It is no more snobbish or undemocratic to possess a dress suit than to possess a gramophone. It is no more snobbish to put on evening clothes than to put on cricket flannels or a football persey. A man who cannot preserve his political principles in a dress suit has no j political principles worth preserving.”
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Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16798, 28 May 1926, Page 3
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