HIS TASTE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4733, 4 August 1924, Page 3

HIS TASTE.

DRESSES MEN' REMEMBER. (A Woman, in the “Daily Mail.’’) Which are the dresses men remember ? Men are critical of women’s clothes, but if they are asked to describe a frock in detail they generally floundered. And the dresses they love, those which linger long in the memory, arc rarely those which we ourselves have made favourites, to which wd have given affectionate care. Very many women make the mistake of believing that they are admired most in evening dress. Of all the hours in the day those which follow dinner are planned with greatest care. Yet the discerning eye of the modern man is apt to see all evening dresses under the light of an exalted unifoim. The sleeveless, straightlined gown appears to him to have little of the individuality which is possible in the garden party or afternoon frock. Men have an almost uncanny rightness of judgment, however, when it comes to the suitability of the dress to the wearer. Out in India an officer received a little time ago a studio portrait of his wife. It was an excellent photograph of a very charming woman in a very elaborate dress. To his letter of thanks the husband added: “But I wish you would se«d me that old snap-shot in which you wear your habit.” The woman in question looked superb m the hunting field. Severity in dress suited her. Jf her husband had been Iler guide she would always have been well dressed, but she made the mistake of trusting to her own “sense” of clothes. The result was that highly decorative - frocks hid a personality which needed an almost classic austerity in expression. Women continue to wear the little bell-like hat, yet alhmen like the big picture hat. “I liked that big flopping thing you wore at Mary’s wedding,’ - a man remarked of an occasion s'ten years old. That was the -only hat ? which his wife had worn that he, could remember, and he was able to describe the long drooping feather and the angle at which the.hat had been pinned. # In details of style men are indifferent Clitics, but in colour and in appreciation of the sympathy which can but dotes by no means always exist between a dress and its wearer, the judgment of a man is often more accurate than that of a_ Woman.