MALE MODES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 701, 28 June 1929, Page 2

MALE MODES

Mistakes Men Make at the Opera CORRECT EVENING DRESS Dinner clothes at the opera are just as out of place as spats with flan, nels, a coloured waistcoat, or a black tie with an evening tailed coat. There are dozens of other sartorial errors I could which ar? brought to my notice in the same number of letters I receive on the subject, remarks a writer in the “Daily Mail.” With a hard felt ha; a soft collar is entirely wrong, jus! as is a soft felt hat with a smart to ting Chesterfield overcoat, which demands the bowler. Brown shoes with a black suit pro claim themselves as being in bad taste, and men with big ankles who wear loud or highly patterned socks commit as big an offence as do thoee who wear light tan or badly cleaned shoes on big feet! Soft-fronted Shirts Soft-fronted shirts and cuffs with an evening tailed coat are not good form, though they may look all right on board ship with a dinner jacket, and the fact that certain Americans wear black dinner ties o£ moire, « higlit3 r patterned silk, and oftentimes have the points or ends tipped with white or grey, is no criterion. King Edward VII. and the preset Prince of Wales made the white waistcoat part and parcel of our dinne? clothes. It was a happy though; more particularly when one wants to be gay at the seaside, or on a summer’s evening. King Edvarc however, neA'er intended a soft shirt to be worn with a white waistcoat, fc' it would be bringing together two extremes; neither do present-day liters of style recommend exaggerated. Tiny Tie Craze One’s clothes should fit the fif ol3 without being unduly .tight, should bo only the suggestion o' 1 waistline. Trousers that are wrote or inclined to flap, are not those by the well dressed man. miniature evening ties —that is, toof* whicli are only half an inch ** They were the craze of a few joo-e men at the University of Oxford, should never have left that “city lost causes/ 5 r x * To be well dressed, one must necessarily follow the fashions ol ■ moment. Choose quiet, well cut, brushed clothes, though they old. if worn with shoes and farms = —that is, socks, linen, and ne y ti —that are part and parcel ot ■ , individuality, they will always 10° right. ’ . Nothing should obtrude all should reflect an inherent | of what is right and wrong. Eyes and Hair When choosing colours, a goc« is to remember that a man W 1 eyes and fair hair can wear anything, but especially blues, bTt)1 r. and whites, and greys. A ° e eyed man with dark hair I°° y. in browns or dusted bines, him of the red hair be colour scheme. His suit s “° v t*. blue, black, or light or dark 5 his furnishings must contain of red. • g a# Light colours in suits aJ ! rbe j. 3# I sories are not g;ood form. all right on the sports grou '- oßr fol you may be as bright and p as you please; but ‘ w ’^ eu > , ! nl i the working day, look part »»» I of your business. - i