WAITERS' CLOTHES.
NEW PLAN IN LONDON. DISTINGUISH THEM FROM GUESTS. The British National Association of Outfitters is to ask the Hotel Proprietors’ Association to -co-operatc in an attempt to evolve a new evening dress for waiters so as to distinguish them from the guests they serve. This was decided at a meeting of the outfitters in London. Mr E. W. Collett, the chairman, said that whenever there was a change in evening dress fashions the waiter immediately adopted it. It was a. serious thing from a dress point of view that guests could not be distinguished from those who served them. He had been “caught" himself, having greeted as an acquaintance the attendant who put out his hand for his hat and coat. Mr Leonard Lyle suggested a distinctive type of waistcoat. Another member urged mess jackets for waiters.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17898, 19 December 1929, Page 8
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