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r ♦- MAN IN EVENING DRESS. MAYOR ADVOCATES REFORM. At a meeting of the organisation known as the Dress Reform League recently established in Christchurch, the Mayor, the Rev. J. K. Archer, said that the dress most in need of reform was evening dress. “Of all the wretched costumes man has to put on evening dress is the most wretched,” he said. He had frequently noticed at functions where men appeared in evening dress that they -were always uncomfortable and miserable in them. Evening dress robbed any distinction which a man might have. It was hard to tell whether a man wa« a porter, a waiter, or a guest. It reduced all men to the dead level of mediocrity. “I have -often thought,” he said, “that if a group of penguins were to ,witness a function where men were in evening dress, they would think they were among comrades.” There was nothing so much like a penguin as a man in evening dress He himself had always ignored “this stupid costume.” He had never owned or appeared in evening dress,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3924, 28 March 1929, Page 2
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183LIKENED TO A PENGUIN. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3924, 28 March 1929, Page 2
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