MEN'S DRESS REFORM

Chronicle (Levin), 6 March 1946, Page 3

MEN'S DRESS REFORM

STDNEY SETS IHE PAOE • With the niove in Auckland' to lustitute a. reform in men's dress the Bydney Sun reports that humj.d weather lias forced dress modiiieation on -tlyduey ■ men, and they are getting aWay With it. Men- .without c-oats or ties, wlio would once have been refused! adniit tance to some theatres and restaurants. are now a cOm'mcin siglrt*. Instances during the week: — Two young men in the froiit row of a dresseircle* in city.theatre — in .sports shirts 110 coats. I'oung man in stalls. of same theatre in a pastel-colonred cotton sliirt, looselv knotted tie. Young man ii. khaki shorts ahd sliirt liaving afternoon tea in leading' restaurkiit.' It was j a hot day. Several other men had takou ! ofi.' their coats. Alan.in a cilv cinema with white, short-sleeved jaeket insteud of a sliirt, ' light-coloured trousera, sandals. • • ' - ■ I'roiiiietors ' of Sydney night elubs said because of the clothing shortagcj it was impossible to insist 011 evenin^j dress. But civilians wearing shorta* '0r j without coats or ties, could Tiot be j admitted, they said. Scliool principals this week refused | to eomment 011 the report that children i in plavsuits had been sent liome froiu-a ' Queensland scliool break-up party for 1 not being "properlv dressed." At j State schools, it's left to the teacher to decide if children are properlv dressed. But as most children weai uniform, this point docsn't arise. Spokesman of the Natioual Titness branch said children at the Education j Department's holiday play centres | would not be disconraged from wearing j playsuits or sun suits. Children at Sydney nurseries spend I part of the day in summer -with play- j suits which are kept for them at the nurseriet. 1 One kindergarten teacher said thoi most delightful scliool she liad seen was in Durban, South Africa. where children changed into sun suits w-hen they arrived at scliool. They kept tlie j suits on all day.