OLD IDEAS RETURNING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 7

OLD IDEAS RETURNING

FASHIONS FOR MEN INDICATIONS IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Sept. 28. Will beards roam Sydney streets once more? They may, if other fashions of past days arc revived. If some city window displays are any indication of what man is going to wear this summer, says a local newspaper, it may not be long before the “dandy'' will be the man with a large moustache and “side levers,” plus straw hat, high starched collar, spotted tie, roped shoulders, laceup boots and uncreased trousers. He may even take snuff! “Let one man adopt any one or all of the old-new styles,” said a men’s clothier, “and the style becomes the fashion. Remember the dawn of Oxford bags?” They remain to-day. And what are these new-old fashions? Well, her e are the first few “feelers”:—The return of the straw hat. Reversion to “roped” shoulders in tailored suits —that queer little ridge where sleeves join the body of the coat. Gaily-coloured silk ties —not striped varieties, but something in spots, waves and flowers. And here are two more hints of an inclination to look backwards. Tobacconists report a growing fancy for plug tobacco, and pipes with coloured amber stems. Last year one tobacconist sold more snuff than in any two years since rhe outbreak of the war.