This is for men only. It contains today's fashion notes, as revealed at Neweastle by Mr. A. Rutherford Almond, the President of the National Federation of Merchant Tailors. Vivid colours such as sunshine yellow and purple blues are to follow Oxford bags into the limbo of the past. The double-breasted jacket has undoubtedly a further lease' of life before it. Nether garments will remain comfortable (Mfr. Almond called trousers "nether garments"). For the well-dressed man the Oxford trouser is a thing of the past—'Yfor which everyone with a pretence of rood taste should be "profoundly thankful." Colours will be quieter, but latitude is allowed in sports wear. straw is taking the place of paper Proper. It seems to provide the ideal of the blank wall which is yet meither dull nor blank. "In game ways it ix a little like panelling, in that it is broken up and its own jeolour and its own lines carry it through. Tt goes with most of the furniture which is now being made, and especially with some of the very light effects. It also looks well with the long, low windows which' conerete has made possible.
At present it is and' is correspond But it ix said to time adds something to. its lights and shadows. For a library, for Dbreakfast-room in the country, the straw "paper looks mellow and cheerful-and is never_monstonous.—Muricy 'Harers' in"
Guardian.
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