Worries Men Escape

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 152, 14 September 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

Worries Men Escape

The stronger sex is wrougly supposed to .do most of the battling with the worries of this old, cold world, but there are very many that, manage to escape, though they will never believe it (writes “Woman in Society” in the London Evening News). To begrn with, man’s clothes seldom, if ever, vary. He knows that he will wear trousers “this time, next year, long time, never.” as the children, and if the ends are turned up or down will entirely depend on the influence Royalty has on men’s fashions of the moment. But that one year his trou sers will be as a woman’s skirts, to the knee, and the next year to his instep, will never occur. That he will retain a kind of uniform for golf and dinner—plus fours, dinner jacket, &c. —is sure, certain, and unalterable. Not so (for woman. She may have paid £SO for a stylish robe in the winter, and by July it may be doing duty as soft cushions, because it is demode (dread word), and those daydressmakers who “renovate” are few and far between. Men’s hair is another thing all women envy, though perhaps they will not admit it. A

man’s hair remains the same year in and year out. But woman must bo for ever fiddling with her hair, if she wants it to be even a moderate success. It must bo patted and “sot,” and a silk net affair worn on it all night. Moreover, men seldom, if ever, go through the horrors of the dye pot, and that messy business, a “henna application,” is unknown to thorn. When Tommy is in the throes of whooping-cough or measles his father gently murmurs the words “infection,” “other people.” and has his meals at the club.