Blazing Hues that Rival Woman "Man is a savage in his delight in brilliant hues. It is consider-edi that he is well content to make a dark background for wonderful woman, to be a foil for her finery, but this is very far from the truth."
A visit to Henley is responsible for these reflexions, which appear in the "Tailor and Cutter."
"At Henley woman was fine and cool and dressed' in soft shades, but it was man's time for splashing the palette with gay tints and bold colours."
Among the crowds the writer of the article says he noted a club group "clad in scarlet," jackets of the "deep purple of Tyre," blazers as "black as Erebus with edges of flames," pink caps and pink socks, cream coats with jazz edgings.
The reason? Just that Henley gives man a chance to indulge his fancy, for colour without being conspicuous among his fellows.
"Whenever possible," continues the article, "man's fancy takes bold forms. In the privacy of his home, the erstwhile sober citizen will wear a rich brocaded dressing-gown or a sumptuous smoking jacket: while in his bedroom he filches from the dawn and the sunset for gorgeous stripes for his pyjamas.
"Man is timid individually, but as bold as brass in company. Give man the assurance that he will not be conspicuously alone, and he will riot in such a manner that woman will pale her ineffectual fires."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.