Dress clothes for men, M. Andre de Fouquieres told the French Tailors' Society. will soon be blue, grey, brown and even green. This reminds me that in the Men's Dress Reform Party Coronation Competition, from which British tailors held aloof, the second prize was won by an evening costume of dark blue chiffon velvet jacket and trousers, light blue silk shirt and dark blue cummerbund.
Reports of banquets, it seems, will one day read like this:
The Mayor, resplendent in a suit of emerald green, with a canary col-Oured shirt, took the chair and introduced the chief speaker, Mr. Plank. Whose nigger brown suit and shirt of a delicate pastel shade afforded an interesting contrast to the garb of his Worship.
Perhaps the women, finding competition with the men too much of strain, will complete the reversal of the present order of things by wearing only black and white.
This advocate of coloured clothes for men also has ideas about umbrellas. Gamps will go gay, even more so than the men's dress clothes. Bright colours are indicated, particularly reds and yellows.
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