1961-12-23 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1961.

A LOOK AT A NEW MALE FASHION REVEALS THAT STRIPES ARE STILL IN BUT THEY MUST BE WIDE NEW FROM BURROUGHS

For MEN Well, you wear

With

more

and more

fashion designers moving in

on

a man's world, such

day-to-day items

as shirts

were bound to go gay. Now

• mort need do if he

الم

wants to cut a dash is to lay

in a stock of new shirts with

the right kind of stripes.

By lain Crawford

BETWEEN the waist-

о

coat and the warm woollies this winter the peacock is caged The shirt, which used to be a useful in-filler between neck and waist, pro- viding

discreetly anonymous background for your taste in ties, has become wild enough to be put behind bars. The shirts in which mashers mashed and the macaronis

would

purple stripes

to the office?

No morning gloom with this light-up mirror, Btted with a plug for an electric Prier: 755. Right: Golfer's razor

weatherproof zip jacket £6 19s. 6d.

You can be or boldly eager

Want how much you

like

while,

new

discreetly e rex according to

To beR

convic comedy. pake, grey and bl

which were the stripcs

only business men's

it

it

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sim to being less than

the fashion-con- are out for kibbus tha Even so, the

firmly based striped shirts are

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spaghettied are back in fashion, with stripes from an eighth Sennet to three-quarters of an inch wide.

on English formalisan

They began with the vertical stripe, worn detachable

collar white

bolder with a by

adventurous gentlemen in bowl- er hats. They progressed to the striped collar horizontally or vertically. striped and the

Latest

the

developments are horizontally striped shirt and the shirt which looks as if it had a detachable white collar and cuffs, but is, in fact, an all-of- a-piece shirt. The new stripes have been promoted heavily by the incursion into the trade of designers of clothes for

warned.

men's

What we did before the arriv-

al on the scene of those taste-

Shirts, apparently, did not get

If, on the other hand, · you,{ designed they just happened, are what I like to think of as Today, there are plenty of shirts robust in figure never wear a horizontally striped shirt. 11 carrying a designer's label.

think might make even you you were getting tubby.

HORIZONTAL

Bow ties (pot for the well- fleshed anyway) can be worn One range carrying a de- with horizontally strived shirts signer's name offers thick only by beanpoles. They look horizontal stripes in blue, red, elegant with vertical stripes. and green on white, made in however. cotton batiste

with

attached

white collar and cuffs 101 Long, painted collars with 7Bs. Od. a heavy vertical stripe downward stripes are agring. in various colours with a point- Over-fortles should wear a wide ed striped collar and double or rounded collar with cuffs for 75s,

type of shirt.

There is also a shirt - for wear with a business suit-pai- terned in a small blue gingham check. It sells at 69s. 6d.

A Regent-street store with branches all over the country is going in for stripes in a big way in their winter shirtings.

They have

a Bri-Nylon shirt with a half-inch stripe in pur- ple, green

blue for 84s. d, and several patterns in dark colours with thin white stripes, (This is supposed to be dtr- ferent from white shirls with dark stripes, but it is largely a question of how you are focuID=

PLAIN, PLEASE

this

And, please, no fancy waist- Coals or over-patterned ties with the buck stripe. A plain suit in a darkish colour. plain waistcoat and lie that does

whisper you no more than good taste are needed in acces- sories if your new shirt is keep you from being mistaken for a ringmaster,

My

ingle, olive, purple, and grey shape for collar

Lo

оде complaint: When will shirt-makers gel together and give us a standard size and stiffeners--or used in abolish the myriad varieties of made in removable ones altogether? You can

London Express Service.

are the colours being these shirts which are poplin and cost 50s. also get stripes in a wool and cotton mixture shirt costing 498. ва

Some of those shirts have rounded inslead of pointed collars. Wide-set collars are al- so in fashion.

Berore A word of warning. you buy your new bold striped shirt, take a look at yourself.

long-nosed If you are thin,

jawed, and lanter

vertical stripes are going to make you lamp- look even more like a post Choose t horizontally- striped shirt or at least lop off the vertical stripes with a rounded (preferably white) collar.

This arrests the eye on its

down- plunge through all the ward lines fream your nose tu

ful gentlemen seems obscure. your trouser creases.

The heartache of Oleg Lenchevsky

OLEG LENCHEVSKY warms himself

a

glass of milk on his gas ring in a North London flat every morning for breakfast. Every night he cooks himself a fried egg — and warms more milk.

And as he cooks and warms

his milk. water engineer Len- BY JOHN ELLISION

ebevsky is composing a letter,

A letter to Nikita Sergeyevich, Kruschev.

the hope of meeting you. Write

"Profoundly respected Nikita to me." Father."

ale

Oleg sent

tickets too.

Sergeyevich," the letter runs, Moscow-London returns which

were lodged with Moscow tourist agency. and

"Please allow me to see once more my wife Valentina and my daughters Anne. 23, Mary, 16,"

The letter is the last appeal

All that

came back was a letter this month from 16-year- old Mary.

of 46-year-old Oleg Lenchevsky, "Our dear beloved Daddy. We

who six have thought for a long-time-

have done.

months

Page

you about what

Broad stripes, decided to re- Recently we wrote to you about narrow stripes,

nounce Com- our desire to see you. Now we have vertical stripes, munism and are convinced that you

seek politica committed a most serious crime

without considering the conse sanctuary in this country... quences for us all,

horizontal stripes

...you can take

your the

pick from wide range

of shirts on sale

now. And if you

feel you Inxust

have a white col-

far ..... well, you 老林熊

and

too.

PICTURE BY JOHN ́COLE

CHALK-STRIPE SUITS COULD

CITRIPES threaten

back to suitings too.

come. Pre-

sident Kennedy buys the cloth

MAKE A COMEBACK

•

shrivel grapes which have not been

for his suits in New Burlington- ör "noble rot" method. The the letter "Y"), and made from street. His latest choice threatens grapes are allowed to to revive the chalk stripe, which until the ratio of their sugar allowed nobly, to rot into Yquem, most of us gave up when our content to water is trebled and it has the balance and constitu- demab sulls ware Out six the resulting syrupy essence is tion of its more famous brother, months after the war ended, fermented and made into wine. but is quite dry on the palate.

The opulent-perfumed bou-

More than half the cloths he This is an expensive the quet of Yquem is retained, but

are in stripes come and its cost is reflected in

have one

the stripes

nist Party.

He came

here to study am still

"Our mother cannot-work. 1 not eligible for employ- the utilitarian ment. We are living only on subject of the salary we receive from my elder sister. You ask us to come water supply to England. But you must re- member we have no job we can loyal and

de in England. We implore you trusted mem- before it is too late to return ber of the home. No one will admire you Commu- for what you have done.

He was B

What he found in the West forced him to admit against his vwn convictions that the life he had been living was a le.

Ke decided to stay-and abandon his wife and daughters in Moscow.

His job

For six months nothing was

"Understand that you have committed an unthoughtful mis- demeanour, and for that only you must take responsibility.

"We love you and await you

before.

Your daughter,

as

The letter made Oleg Lenchevsky sick.

"I know it was written for my daughter. I can see the hund of officials behind it he said. "I worry what has happened to Yet incredibly he refuses to lose heart. To him the riddle of terror bombs, of gamennan- ship in Berlin of inter-party strife is no puzzle. Corveything stene u from mutu lediartist. This now! The Bay At Bemove fear and dis

arid the Koroblems of dif kmant of dermany, of the whole balance of terror, fall to

has chosen

my family. of him. Recently he in what American call pencil price. Chateau d quem 1950, the wine is clean, frulty, and heard stripes and we call pin stripes; for example, costs 361 a bottle, uncloying to drink. It has just appeared again a £1,000-A Now, however, the Marquis de been imported into this country, year authority on water soften others in chalk stripes on blue, Charcoal, and grey backgrounds. Lur-Saluces, whose family have and will sell for 22sd. Bila botting, employed by a by British

All are wool cloibs (even a owned Yquem eve since the flet de

firm, who lectured delerates to mohair) in 8-11os, weights. I elatioenth century has also The dry Yquem has not beek a water convention on other Americans are fol- made a dry wine from the 1959 maile for more than a century, rosion Preventive water

vintage. GASTARDIVINE new favour to the ment in the lowing, ma it were, sult

"Called Ypres (French for twBG ELS

bear

The greatest?

sablon la dry winos (s)

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