SHORTS AND BLOUSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 834, 30 November 1929, Page 13

SHORTS AND BLOUSES

NEW DRESS PROPOSED FOR MEN BYRON COLLARS, TOO LONDON, November 17. Trousers are strongly condemned in an official report published by a special committee of the Men’s Dress Reform League, appointed to suggest practical reforms in many respects. The committee favours kilts, but it is admitted that modern industrial conditions render them scarecly practicable, therefore shorts “are undoubtedly the only suitable nether garments for active games, cycling and walking, indeed, for all forms of exercise.” If used for non-sporting purposes they should be of the best material and well-cut. The most objectionable feature of conventional dress, says the report, is the collar and tie combination. The committee approves of the Byron collar (V-necked, long rolled collar) as fulfilling all athletic, convenient ’ and hygienic requirements, and it is pointed out that increasing numbers have adopted it. The tie need not be sacrificed altogether. A hanging tie can be worn, knotted low down. Kijee Breeches for Evening Coats should be merely an outer wrap with blouses instead of shirts, but whether the shirt or blouse is worn as an outer garment it should be made respectable by being sufficiently decorative. The ideal evening-dress would be a fine white silk or satin blouse, black satin kneebreeches and silk stochln!ome of the more bold committeemen regard knee breeches as conventionalised, preferring the finest qualltyASchlClk'made of velvet or corduroy “wnnid be a very becoming wrap. The committee disposes of hats as entirely unnecessary in the Lnglish climate 5 , except against rain or an unusually strong su “- recomFor shoes, sandals are recom mended. - nfTENCE OF FRANCE. The French Minis ter f ™ ov ’ er n men t prospend £27.000,000 on frontier defence works.