BAGGIER BAGS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1925, Page 1

BAGGIER BAGS.

I I. \ V »V • I IYL\ .1 >. VVIOi LONDON, .Uiircli 7.

London is giving a very cold reception to the wider trousers, which clothes refillmors among Oxford undergraduates are Irving to popularise “ in the national interests.”

liKpiiries among West End tailors show that the young men who have already ordered trousers of 22 or 23in. circumference al the shoe, instead of about loin ; have tlone so very ner-voit-lv.

“Most of my customers who suei unibed to the cult have already been frightened hack to orthodox wear.” ■-aid one of I hem. Tailor.-, themselves agree that the wider trousers tan have no hope ill popularity, as fashion changes for men arc cither almost instantaneous or do not take at all. SKA. LAND, AND AIR DASH. LONDON, March 7. A dash hy sea, land, and air to the bedside of his dying mother has been made b\ Herr Schrnedcr. a Genii.in passenger from America, in the liner Stuttgart. While in the Atlantic Herr Schroeder received a wireless message saving that his mother was dangerously ill at Dtisseldorf. All hough the liner was hound for 1-re men, arrangements were made to put llorr Schroeder ~lf al Plymouth, and from there he travelled hy express I rain in London.

Yesterday tie flew in an nil* express from the l.tiiuhni air-stalion to ( nilgai*. lie left at 0.20 a.m.. stopped nr luncheon in Brussels, and reached Cologne at 2.21 p.m. Hero lie hired a motor-car to rush him to Dusseldorf. 22 miles away.