"ROBIN HOOD'S” FOR MEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 244, 15 October 1931, Page 2

"ROBIN HOOD'S” FOR MEN

Alon’s fashions do not vary much, they remain the same year in and year out, winter and summer, with perhaps a light sports coat or blazer for the regulation sports day. Papers from over seas occasionally contain little fashion paragraphs to the effect that suits and hats of brighter hue had been worn by a few leaders of fashion at important soc'al functions and garden parties.

Alen’s styles and fashions were nit neglected in the early csjs. The only variation in hats for many years lias been the changing of a bow from the sid? to the rear, a little varying of

width, of brim which is sometimes worn curled up or Jowa. according t-.-the taste or whim of the wearer.

It has been stated that there’s a possibility or radical deparcure? from the ututl stylo worn. The arrival of the “Bobin Hood” and bowJer hat fur women. has so taken the fancy of Hit male population thit manufacturers of men’s hats are wondering if the style could be modified for male. use. As one writei aptly put it, that if women can go back to the days of Emprsss Eugenio for their styles of headgear, why cannot men go back to the era of Queen Elizabeth. Feathers must be worn with the true Eugenie stylo, but men have worn feathers in the past, and why nc l again?

The peaceful life of the ostrich has been sadly disturbed and even the fowls must wonder why the yards are combed every day for discarded feathers, that go to make the cute little ornaments for millinery. What will happen to the poor feathered creatures, if men decide to adopt the new fashion? I wonder if we shall see men walking down the streets with dinky little feathers in their hats.