THE PEACE DELEGATES.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 September 1919, Page 7

THE PEACE DELEGATES.

PERSONAL APPEARANCES. HOW THE GREAT MEN DRESSED. Some amusing sidelights on the Peoce Conference, how the great men of all nations dress and Compori; {themselves under the limelight, are given with characteristically American freedom and freshness by Mr William G. Shepherd. “Forty—five of the sixty—five ‘were more or less bald, but what they lacked in head—covering they made up in moustaches, as fifty-one of them were thus adorned on the upper lip_ Whiskcrs were not in vogue at the peace table. Vassitch, of Se.r\'i:l'(Pasllitch, the Premier), vvo-re his, whiskers extremely long and h‘Jsh_v. Extraordinarily enough, the oely other notable whiskers at the peace table were those of Vandervelde. of Belgiuxn, and Venizelos, of Greece. 2‘ “The high—winged coli.ar is undoubtedly the statesrnan’s favourite. President Wilson, who does not fall within either the bald Cl‘ the whiskerad category, being smooth shaven me the Japanese delegates, were the high band turned-down collar. and more or less, from the collar statrjpoint, was in 3. class by ]limsel'.‘. ’ “Speaking of collars however, the palm was carried off by the enemy. Count Brockdorff-Rantzau appeared at the Trianon Hotel en ‘medicine day’

with a collar at least I‘-‘.-.r,<ee inches high, decorated in front with tiny rearrew wings. During the session be constantly raised his chin and rubbed -his neck against the rim of his collar, as if it were binding him. “There was a surprisingly littl amount of formal dressing. President Wilson was not far behind in the carefulness with which he attired himself for various occasions. The Japanese and some of the South African delegates were Lpractically the only members who were sticklers for form in dress.

“The English made it the fashion to be careless in dress. It was one of the Britisherg who first appeared in what hitherto has been considered an impossible combination——a Derby hat and a, cutaway frock coal;_ “There is undoubtedly a snappingss about the American business suit that none of the other tailors of the world have been able to attain. American ‘suits, as viewed at the Peace Conference, seemed to be made -to fit their particular wearers. At 3 great distance in a Paris street one may fingle out an American suit. “The sound old British suit is made to drape and hang. It keeps one warm and covered, and it is wide-necked, so that :1 man, if he will, may draw his head down into it like a turtle going into its shell. “In the matter of silk hats, the Ame.rican colony nrenrbers of Paris, who are considered the best-dressed men in lFrance, had cause to criticise the V American delegation It would appear that every year in the United States ithe silk hat takes a new form, while it remains unchanged throughout the decades in Europe.

“On the whole, the Paris Peace Conference ‘was not a great success. ‘About the only new note struck was the combination of the Derby and the frock coats”