ATROCIOUS DRESS
SHAW’S PORTRAIT FASHION PAPER CRITICAL PICTURES ATTACKED By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Friday. The “Tailor and Cutter” has decided that Bernard Shaw’s portrait was probably banned at the Royal Academy because of the atrocious clothes which painters seem to introduce into all pictures nowadays. Thereupon it proceeds to bemoan the creases and contortions in clothes “which make the judicious mourn.” Taking the subjects one by one, it discovers that buttonholes are not corresponding with buttons and that monstrous collars are decorated by appalling ties. As an example, in his picture Mr. John Fleming wears buckskin strappings with his riding breeches, and though the right leg strapping is placed correctly, incredible to relate, the left leg strapping is painted outside.
It is the worst mistake ever seen in the Academy. Writing of the picture of Lord
Greenway it says: “There’s small advantage in being a peer if one is not allowed to have buttonholes in one’s clothes.” —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 9
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163ATROCIOUS DRESS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 9
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