A REVOLUTION IN MEN’S DRESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1280, 4 August 1914, Page 4

A REVOLUTION IN MEN’S DRESS.

There has been no greater revolution in men’s clothes within living memory than that which (the Daily Express understands), will bo effected In England this .spring and summer. This revolution will include nothing ieas than the adoption by tho bestdressed men in the world of plum-colourcd evening clothes and morning suits, of which the coat, vest, and trousers will by all of tho same hue. This epoch-making change is the indirect outcome of more than two years of colour-blending experiments by great, woollen manufacturers, involving an expenditure of many thousands of pounds. Mr H. Dennis Bradley, of Bond street, recently disclosed the zealously-guarded secret of the impending changes to a Daily Express representative. They represent tho materials for the clothing of the men of the future, and will strike an entirely new note in men’s dress. Certainly the results achieved in colour-blending, according to cloth exports, mark the greatest, advance in production in tlie history of tho British wollen industry. After 40 or 50 years’ devolion to black evening clothes, block morning coats, and single-coloured laungo suits, tho. best-dressed men have at last broken out in open revolt, and there is every indication of the beginning of a return even to the gay colours of the early Georges. So convinced are the experts about the sterling value of the new cloth that no leas than £20,000 Worth has been bespoken for morning, lounge, and evening clothes for .1915. _ The new cloth—there are sixty or more varieties and shades-will probably be launched at Ascot.