MEN AND DRESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1645, 11 January 1913, Page 11

MEN AND DRESS.

THE NEW BEViVAL-COLOUR. There is no doubt that in the demand shown by the best-dressed Englishmen at the present moment for brighter and more distinctive styles, the revival 01 guver colours in men's dress is only a question of time. _ . ■ . This indicates an awakening which many of us havo anticipated to tho probability that the dress of us early twentieth-cen-tury men. will undergo during tho next few years somo startling changes in style, in colour, and in material, for it is not logical to imagine that an era which in general progress is making tho greatest strides in the history of tho world will be content to continue the negative fashions and comparatively drib and dreary colo,urs_ which are the legacy of a century admittedly decadent in the art of dress. Eighteenth-Century Fashions. The eighteenth-century fashions were, from an artistic point, of view, almost perfect, and it is interesting to determine tho cause of their decay during the nineteenth century to a degree of ugliness which was ajiositive offence to the eye. In Lecky'a "History of England" ho as.cribes the ohange to the Republican movement in France. Personally, I con-'

aider it Vthe consequence of the great industrial and cominerciah development of the age, for with tho progress of commercialism sweeping on its tido not only the entiro middle-class- community,' but a great',number ■> of -the aristocracy, a ■change, was'inevitable.' Silks nnd : fntins arid; laces^;were impracticable to the business 'life, and'-'a utilitarian style of dress was imperative.. . •' 'The spirit and character of each age is infallibly shown by its'style of dress, and the spirit of the Victorian era, despite its industrial-progress, was sombre, narrow, and deplorably inartistic, But'as each century'in the past, has shown its character and taste by its mode of dress, it; is riot'conceivable that this progressive twentieth century will for'• long 'to ctntontto follow the modes of an ugly era.

Swing of the Pendulum. - ' The 1 pendulum has started to,swing in the; right direction, but there still remains a dullness-:'in European men's •fashions which does not truly indicate the temperament of. the people, and the nervous touch both ,in colour and style, together with the lack of individuality'in all classes, render the mode cf to-day characteristic only ■of tho .q'emmercia'linind; and though tho.present ago is commercial, it is neither inartistic nor Puritan, so the day is almost ripo for.'tho evolution of a more spirited, a more cheerful, and a moro attractive garb than tho vogito of the moment compels us to adopt. Wo are only waiting for the bold man wlm will srink his self-consciousness .(tntl, array himself in tho brighter and more artistic tones which tho woollen and textile manufacturers can now pioduco better than in any peceding age, if only they could be sold. Brooklyn, Wellington, '. 13th December, 1912. Dear Mrs. Hullen,— ' - For years I was tortured with superfluous hair on my ■ face, nnd feared I should never rid myself of the distressing disflguremont. Being extremely sensitive, I suffered considerably, being often remindod of tho fact, which I realiFed only too well. I tried several so-called cures, also spent a great deal "of money on electrolysis,' but all to no purpose. In fact, I. got worse. Then I heard of "Eusma," and, as a last resource, decided to givo it a trial, though having little faith of ever being cured. Imagino my surpriso and delight on discovering that, with each treatment, tho hair grew finer, until finally I was cured.

Tho grandmothers of Chicago are to have a clubhouse of their own, as they consider they are the most neglected portion of tho population, and aro not weloome at young people's cluba.