The Prince of Wales is again much in evidence both publicly and socially, playing an excellent game in the Army Squash Rackets competition, dancing with shop girls at the British Legion dance on his estate in the Oval district and hunt ing at Melton Mowbray. Every] day he has one oF two public funetions, Moreover the influence the Prince upon men's fashions was discussed on Saturday by Mr. Pagar J. Meaker, whose Piccadilly, shop next door to the Royal Academy opens this week. "Men are Grersing with more sense now than formerly," ko said. "Twenty-nive! years ayo we could hardly get col-Jars high enough for people. The majority of collars were sold at 28 inches, and we used to sell them up to 35' inches, whereas to-day the majority are from one to one and three quarters, Men are much more conservative than women. No man would have dared to have sterted a fashion like the Fair Isl jersey. 'The Prince of Wales made' that. He has a great influence in totting a fashion because he can. wear what an ordinary man cannot] wear for fear of what hie club mem bers would vay. The average Eng Fishman is a modest quiet type of chap, very averse to ridicule. He does not like to be seen in anything which is very noticeable, but he! does not mind if somebody else besins it"
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