The Archive · 1938

Clothes and the Man

It was not to be expected that Mr. Bernard Shaw, who will send anyone a postcard on the slightest provocation, would remain silent when a Killarney judge described the Shavian clothes as "appalling.". While indignantly rebutting the charge as a libel on his tailors, Mr. Shaw admits, perhaps for the benefit of those who may not have seen his photograph in the newspapers, that he is not a "Foreign Office attache who rushes to his tailor as soon as fashion alters a waistcoat button."

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