MEN’S DRESS REFORM

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 436, 18 May 1937, Page 3

MEN’S DRESS REFORM

NEW DESIGNS COMPETITION Invitation To Dominions London, May 7. The Dominions are invited' to participate in. a competition for new designs for men’s clothes, organised by the Men’s Diets Reform Party. Dr. Alfred Jordan, the president, told the Sun: “We have won in the sphere of sport. In which men can now wear anything—short® for tennis, slips and trunks for bathing. Now We are concentrating on office and professional wear and ceremonial •evening .wear, which it' now most idiotic and unhealthy. “The neiw styles should! be adaptable to varying temperatures and activities. Thus, a costume might be designed so that an outer garment is removable without impairing the general effect” Competitors can go the limit on imagination. For example, there is no reason why a toga costume should not win. Trousers are not essential. The competition closes on June 1. Dr. Jordan suggests that travellers from the Antipodes should make up materials on shipboard while they are journeying to England.