EX-SOLDIERS' CRAZE FOR COLOUR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5611, 7 May 1919, Page 2

EX-SOLDIERS' CRAZE FOR COLOUR

1 OAY CLOTHES AND STARCHED COLLARS. . Men’s clothes are about to recover fioin the drab monotony caused by the war (says the London Daily News). The demobilised soldier, it seems, insists on that. After spending some years in khaki, he proposes to let himself go a • little. The new knut will apparently i be knuttier than over. i “We find,” said a West End tailor, [ recently, “that all our demobilised cus- ( turners are much more interested in • clothes than they used to be. Many , arc so tired off wearing nothing but (khaki that they refuse to look at anything at all brown., and ask for grey, as light as possible.” “Tweeds are much in demand, and the.more violent the colour the better they are liked. One customer said to me the other day; “I’ve been camouflaged for the last four years. Now I’m going to wear something that can bo seen.'I’' 1 ’' He chose a light grey for London, and a particularly enterprising tweed for the country. He left, in high spirits, to buy some congenial socks. Men’s figures have much improved ■' AVliat we notice' more than anything. * said the manager of Messrs Pope and Bradley, “is the great improvement in Die way men stand. They are more upright. The stoop has quite gone out. They are all bigger, too. We have to Like fresh measurements of all our old customers. The chest especially has always developed.” Men who have been in the ranks arc keen on stiff collars. The soft collar has htu} its dqy in London. Millions, of men who have worn no collar at all in the past foil]' years are welcoming the opportunity of going to the other extreme. Hats must be light in colour and soft —ns a relief from staff khaki. The bowler is doomed. So is tire tall hat, unless it becomes white or grey. Shoes aie in far greater demand than hoots. After four years of Army boots, the exsoldier is anxious for something lighter.