WOMEN PREFER....

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 5

WOMEN PREFER....

VIEWS ON THE MODERN MAN. ' Hat, tie, and shoes are first things a girl looks at today when she meets a man. An<l today, it is said by smart women, who understand these things, that provided a man has a car to his hat, his tie, and his shoes, he can go clothed in almost any kind of rags . . . and win the heart (if not the hand) of a lady. Women like men to be fashionable. Therefore, a hat that is several years out of date is just as unpardonable on a male head as it would be on that of a girl. Most girls want men to keep up with the times. If pork pie hats are worn, then let the boys wear them for mercy’s sake.

Pity the man who cannot produce at least one old hat that looks as though 16 buses have run over it, and wear it without a blush in company. “A man who hasn’t got an old hat he cherishes is like an old maid without a cat,” said one young Sydney woman. “He doesn’t ring true and probably has some secret vice like sleep walking or collecting the tops of match boxes.”

From the appearance of man’s feet a woman, properly steeped in intuition, can delve into a man’s soul. He may have a poker face but he cannot possibly have poker feet. So, if you watch the modern young woman being introduced to a man you will see her gaze, sooner or later, wander down to his feet and there it will rest in contemplation. What are the little things she looks at? Secrets are revealed to her in the hang of the trousers. Do they flap above the ankles, or flop like sails becalmed about the shoes? What sort of shoes is he wearing? The too highly polished, the not polished at all, the suede effect, the patent leather, the mixed grill variety blending the hides of several creatures, the sports model complete with mud, or are they just plain black boots? These are clues to personality for the discerning young woman.

Possibly man thinks less about his feet than any other part of his person. The suggestion that his feet might betray him will no doubt surpise him. He considers them utterly unimportant for character reading and for this reason he probably expresses himself through his feet with complete abandon and gives himself away without knowing it.

A girl will also judge a man by the way he uses his feet. She will watch the way he walks, and how he places them when he sits. If he sits on them, he is finished. One Sydney girl said: “All I need is one glance, at a man’s tie. It .is not the colour or design that influences me, though this is of some importance. The thing I look for is the way the tie knot is made. And how seldom, in Australia, do you see it done with that touch which signifies that someone of good taste has accomplished the deed. Unfortunately, even a boy’s best girl friend won’t tell him if he is a chronic offender in this respect. So there are lots of perfectly nice men who never learn to tie their ties properly.” A loosely knotted tie is taken by some women to indicate an easy-going generous nature. The careful, selfish man often ties his tie in a small precise little knot. Beware of the man whose tie is always perfect, said a young matron. That type of man is often too good to be true. "If men could see themselves as we women see them,” said one woman, “they’d soon be different. The trouble is they do not use the mirror enough. My advice to them is look in the long mirror more.” A final word on baldness. Bald men pass, said one woman critic, simply because there are so many of them that it would be useless to worry about it. Some girls think it would be better if young men who were half bald shaved the rest ‘of thenhead in German fashion. The bullet head has a strong appeal for women. It is so unmistakably male. Men who are almost bald, and try to pretend they are not, by coaxing little pieces of treasured hair across their pates irritate women.