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ANGUS MCGILL CASTS A HUMOROUS EYE

AT WHAT COULD WELL BE A TAILOR'S NIGHTMARE

I'm looking backwards at fashion... mainly for men

cuffs and then flared slightly,

The twenty-first century should see us back in the clothes of the Middle Ages. And why not? They were comfortable, sensible and comely. We could do a great deal worso,

JOHN COLE took the pictures

IXTY arduous years of writing Mainly for Men The sleeves narrowed ot the have left me hale, hearty and 93. My memory We wore Regency shoes with is happily unimpaired and I had some good advice square toes, Regency hats with for you on how to grow old and keep your wits crowns and tightly up- did no good. Men showed their but I can't remember what it was.

curled brima,

These have been eventful years for men's TO0 POPULAR clothes. As the present has got steadily more disagreeable the tailors have gone more and more deeply into the past for their inspiration until- well just look how we are dressed today.

I vividly

Tem'è m -

ber how it all

began. It was

in the far-off

Arites.

strange,

that

Un-

easy ilme be-

fore the occu-

pation of the

planets.

Sir Thomas Steele then Just plain

Tommy Was beginning his career and The Mouse- trap, now in

its 60th year,

was just get

ting into its

stride.

The Arst

luok

back-

wards was a

smoli

one

Greatly

dar

ing.

the

tailors

pro-

duced the Ed-

wordian took.

It had its

day and then suddenly it was

over,

killed by that certain 29-

Jussin

DI

fashion, popularity. The Teddy Sadly we waistcoats

Boys took it over,

Inid our fanicy

Ical.

and

Next, in the early sumbre 'sixties, the allors introduced first the Victorian Inok then, when that falled, the Regency look. This one was a huge success.

we

had Our

By the end of 1902 become Regency bucks. trousera hid narrowed further, so tight now that they were cut to follow the shape of the leg. Men with calves were

The 1982 Look. Give them

halt a chance and the tailors will have us dressed like Covoliers, all bows, slashes and lace. The teenagers of the period will

be known as Charlies,

delighted. Men without them said that things had gone fou for this time.

legs once morethis time snug- ly clothed in nylon hose.

would not monsieur prefer meet

a younger

said.

lady?"

DELIGHT

Uncle

to

"This is not yet widely known he here so don't you go writing any)

dumn-fool tommy-rot about it," he said. "Don't want everyone guzzling it."

I have been guzzling myself with some delight this week. It is a lovely wine, a beautifully

Peregrine balanced wine, a wine for special

Henry VIII wasn't much good at putting up with things. 1 can't understand how he put up

his with

clothes. However, This was the most elegant they saw us into the 21st cen male fashion for generations, tury and it was a great relief But, in time, it too hecame too when. 15 years ago, the Tailor popular. A new generation of and Cutter ushered, us Into the Moines 1957, one of the fine a nobleman called Baron Brin-

Middle Ages.

teenagers became known as the Brum Boys, perhaps after Beau Brummell, er possibly because the greatest excesses in this, as in 30 much else, appeared in Birmingham.

So, in desperation the fallora looked even further back and, in 1071 produced the Early Georgian look.

M'glared at

glass

The wine is produced in vine- of La Roche aux yarda ai Savennieres, ruled by

card. Long may he reign.

-Loniton Express Service?.

After being overdressed for white wines of Anjou. more than a decade it was a sweet relief to be able to go to the office in tights and a simple colehardie. This slim, sensible (unic,

Directors

hip length and buttoned H.E. Rt. Hon. The Lord Burden down the front was cheap,

C.B.E. J.P. (Chairman) comfortable and comely,

P. Wilson.

Bul this too became passe and here we are, back in the styles Animal Husbandry Consultant of the Stone Age. None of the tailors doing either.

Trousers were banished. It was a sensation at the time and many of us refused to obey. The associations were 100 dear. We I suppose I shouldn't grombie, had-Worn trousers through good times and bad, and they had never let us down, We would not lightly throw them aside.

But in time even the diehards bought their first pair "{ breeches and long white stock ings and thus attired we facel the troubled seventies.

But as crisis succeeded crisis the clothes of George I no longer seemed adequate for the times. So, about 1982, 1: Was succeeded by the Cavalier look, As Cavallers we felt we could fare whslever the planeta handed out

It's

surprising We haven't reached this stage much sooner. But the furs of wild beasts itch and are hard and dangerous to come by.

And bare legs aren't welcome when you reach my age. Some- times, when 1 sleep, I dream of

trousers.

INDIGNANT

RECENTLY met an

I Englishman m P

with galety and who in tones of high moral

panache. But by 1995

situation had become

that measures

the indignation, told me the fol

O grave

of an unprece- lowing story....

dented gravity were essential.

He had been sitting in a

The tailors of England rase, boulevard cafe, he said, and hadi

as always, to the occasion. They produced the Tudor look.

noticed that two elderly women

at a neighbouring table

he envied but could not identity.

in

A. J. Miller, M. R. A. C.

Plo Farm Monegament and Agricultural Consultant H. Miller

Farme thepector

W. G. CasO

General Administration

D. G. Wilson

Office Manager Oldney K. Mann.

FARM ADDRESSES

"Willowdana" Farm,. (Special Fattening Unit) Ford End,

Ivinghos, Bucks.

Chapel Hill Farm, Haslingfield, Cambridge, Cambridgeshiro,

were

Glen Moor Farm,

Tolleshunt Major,

like

Nr. Maldon, Essex.

It was the end of breaches drinking 2 long iced concoction and again there was furore, Thu Establishment rose

He called a waiter and, point- anger, Dame Rita Tushingham Ing discreetly, said: "Nd caused a rumpus in the Lords. one of those, please," John Osborne, OM, wrote

The waiter's eyes opened wide letter from the Bahamas. It with interest and surprise. "But

JACOBY BRIDGE

-on

Jackets, which had grown shorter again, got very much longer,

Jack brond NORTH'S takeout double and the They had shoulders and shaped waists,

A British Crossword Puzzle

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spades under

nt South's one

The queen of no-trump bid South's king and correct. There spades under North's acc. Then were erlaently was also nothing wrong with he could not have been thrown [the two, and thres no-trump in the lead, and East would bids, except that North and have made itve tricks with his South cach held the rock bottom, bust hand. minimum, so that the Arial con- track was doubtful, to say the least,

V+CARD Serisen♦

Falling to do this, he still could have saved the day Inter inis by simply letting ong of South wun

the third the opening din- High spades go on amond to duomy, came to his heart lead, band with the king of spades, lcd the queen uf hearts and played dummy's see when the queen was cover.d, cashed two linore hearts and oled that East's nico spot was new the top heart. He then finessed dummy's queen of clubs, cashed both black nces and threw West in the lead with the queen, South had eight tricks In, and since West was down to

20

NORTH

ABSZ VABTS +44 #AQO

WEST (D) AQJT VR4

AJ 13952

EAST

10904 ❤9052

7

1983

SOUTH 4K2

K

North A

Double Para

The bidding has been:

Exat South West Pass Pass

2 Pass 24 Pass

3

?

You, South, hald: AK963 563 $752 4812

What do you do?

A---Bid three spades. You have shown notblog op to this point. TODAY'S QUESTION West and North pass and East bids four hearts. What do you do now?

Answer on Monday

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Bath,

Bomerect.

"

Bradley Road Farm,

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Suffolk

ACROSS

1 Shoots a line.

6 Plant.

Get outdo

10 Hirsute,

11 Supple.

12 Strike.

13 Time a persont

14 Deposit.

10 Wood.

10 Constricted.

21 The gallery.

23 Sight advantage.

20 Fish that siceps?

20 Agreement.

at it's rally.

32 A cooler

34 Everybody,

30 Cable holder.

BT Bird-brainst

30 Youth.

30 Exhauled.

40 Turns brownt

DOWN

1 Are owned.

2 It's heaven-sentl

Wool

No one vulnerablo

North East Borth

Double Pazz

1 N.T.

TASH

2 NT. Par

INT,

Pars

3 Be there.

4 Very thin.

6 Zodiac sign.

6 Period.

7 Kind to do office work?

Ù Injure.

15 Feel your way.

17 Forcaler's record?

19 Query.

20 Minute.

22 Don't settlel

24 They do boring work.

25 Corrects.

27 A little land.

20 You've got one!

20 Tubers.

30 What the wise cat?

23 Layer of paint.

13 Ha1à not all therol

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. - Across 3 Clipped, 1 Needle, & Attempt, 0 Asps, 11 Wils, 12 Dards, 15 Pole, 16 itet, 17 Loter, 18 Dent, 19 Fads, 21 Cabinet, 23 Tennis, 23 Dangles. Down: Snub, 2 Detalls, 3" Clips, 4 Lets, 0 Prepared, 0 Delest, 10 Blooring, 11 Woo, 13 Rinsing, 14 Dot, 18 Placed, 10′ Dates, 15 Fete, 20 Last.

PARE PARE

Opening Tead—♦ J

diamonds, he had to give Soulh

his ninth trick in that sull

West, could havo benten 10: band in two ways. To start with, ho could have dropped

Chess News

By LEONARD BARDEN

Solution No. 0113 : 1 ... - KL? chi; 2 KXQ, KL-DE "Av. eh K-Kli, ki-ng mata or Kixa mate.

Landon Veprasa Katrics

Dr.

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London Zaprešo Borsten,