NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1926, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

COLOUR IN .MEN’S KYEXIXG W EAR. WOMEN DISAPPROVE. LONDON, November 30. A certain set ol would-be fashion leaders in Paris have made a very big endeavour to introduce coloured materials for men’s evening wear this season, hut so far lave failed.

This is only a sequel to the efforts made in the same direel ion in London some years ago, hut a campaign of this i-irt is always doomed, because women

■o not improve of men wearing colours. They claim that that is their privilege, -nd if men wore anything hut black it would lie necessary for the smart

woman to ascertain what particular •objured evening suit her escort intend'd wearing; otherwise her own dress might not tone in with it. The vogue for the tailed evening

'oat is amazing; at the smart restaurants and (lance cluhs the tailed coat, white waistcoat, and white tie are as mii.-k in evidence as the smoking. Tho fashion for the narrow sleeve bc'■om.es more pronounced and in Paris !o-day. in order to goi ilic desired afreet, it is necessary to thread the finks Hi rough the cuffs after the shirt has been put on. Talking of cuffs, the host-dressed men are favouring the double one. hut this is followed eloselv by the single variety hut with rounded corners. The newest evening shirt fronts carry horizontal stripes patterned in the white hat.sis te or marcel la. and are -iiiite good-looking worn with plain white evening waistcoats. BRITISH CLOTH BEST. LONDON. Nov. 30. Golden-square, near Regent-street, \V., and ils vicinity arc at the moment reverberating with American voices, because this is the great headquarters for the hundreds of buyers who arc over here from the Cnited States purchasing English. Scottish. and 1 1- i sli woollens fur tile autumn and winter of 1020-1027. Never before in the history of the Cnited States clothing world have British materials stood so high. The thought u; cc-nnest in tho mind of these keen buyers of woollens, and the first question put on their arrival in London is. \Yhat will he the colour for autumn and winter, lo2f>.’ At the moment all indications tend towards shades of brown, from the ’.cry pale to the darkest chocolate.

Shades of Line running from indigo to the lighter tones associated with man. oftentimes decked with. silver, ire also prominent, while an unusual departure is the introduction of purple tones mixed with other shades such as grey, silver, and similar staple colours. RECTOR AS TOY-MAKER. LONDON. Nov. 30. The Rev. Wiliam (.inch, rector if All Saints’ Vest - Gorton, Manchester, has declined a pojiti-.ni of designer, worth £3OO a year, offered ir. him as an inventor of toys by a l.ond in linn. -Mr Bincli said to a reporter yesterday : "Toy-making has Ijcen my hobby for many years, ft would pay me to adopt toy-making as a career, hut money is not everything and I love the ministry.” lii the rector’s study is a big doll's house,, winch he is making. Every room will have complete suites of furniture made by the rector. VAE El EM STOLEN. LONDON, Nov. 30. The manager of the Empire Theatre, Galway—Mr J. P. Pounds;—with three companions, was returning by motcr■:ar front Athenry to Galway at midnight on Sundav after showing tho war film of Zeebrugge. when he was held up in a lonely part of the road by four masked men who were armed with revolvers. The leader ordered the occupants out of the car, which was searched, and the box containing the Zeebrugge and other films was taken. Mr Pounds and his companions were then ordered to enter the car and drive nwav. Air Pounds reported the occurrence to guards at Oranmore, and ) L" uLit was found burned on tne roadside.