CLOTHES AND THE MAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16738, 20 May 1922, Page 13

CLOTHES AND THE MAN.

“ SARTORIAL BOLSHEVISM ” LONDON, May 7. Docs the traditional broad-minded-ness of artists in the mntter of peronal apparel communicate itself to their portraits? According to the trade journal, “ The Tailor and Cutter, ,y this year’s Academy exhibition “ abounds in examples of sartorial Rolshevism ” rctminiscent of the ransacking of a nightmare wardrobe. Commenting on individual pictures, the journal suggests that the “ Man in a Blue Coat” was painted in a brown study, which may explain why the buttons are on the wrong side. Bernard Shaw is depicted as wearing the vrorst coat in the Academy. For a problem picture entitled “Why?” the paper 6upidies the answer, “Why did I marry?—a man wearing such clothes would not have collar seams, holes, and buttons.” The portrait of the Shakespearean actor Maurioe Muscovitch evokes the comment: “If Shylock’s clothes were as discreditable as these, no wonder they spat upon his Jewish gaberdine.” Augustus John is vigorously attacked for a portrait of Captain Cuest (Secretary for Air) who wears “ a very slipshod tie, like a plant.”