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MAN

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THE

HỌNGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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• Men's clothes, men's hobbies, men's personal gossip

How to get the best suit

With these points in mind show your

tailor you know something about it.

VERAGE man goes to to between the first and second but-

tons, so that the top button is slight-

A his tailor, does not

his tailor, does not ly dimeult to do up.

At the back the coat should foll nway fairly loosely down

to the

what he can wear most suc- hips. Most men make the mistake cessfully.

Result: nine times out of ten he does not get the bent' mit he can afford. If you show the taller that you know something about it, that you are interested in the thing, you will get better results.

Watch the roll

on the lapel

Essentials of a smart suit just now are wide, aquaro, but not padded shoulders; narrow, not very narrow soft hips; well worked up cheat with a soft roll on the Inpel.

The roll lu Important. In a double- breasted suit it should extend down

Happy people lead

DOUBLE LIVES

ALL the happiest people

lead double lives. They devote part of their time and interest to their work and the rest of their time and interest to their hobbies.

A Yorkshire rector's favourite occupation 1s attending murder trials. He has been present at every Old Bailey murder trial since that of Crippen.

of thinking that a cont cut light to the back is smarter.

Sleeves should be narrowish, Wide ones make the shoulders look nur- row.

The foundation of a suit is the canvas; this is the sack-like material you find when the lining splita, The work put into the canvas plays a big part in the Anal appearance of the suit.

Swank tailor

keeps the pattern

For instance, the roll of the Impet is produced by making the canina slightly looser than a lining.

More obviously important is the

Why you walk in Circles

you have no sense of direction, γου

You may think you have, but that is all there is to it.

Not long ago a group of psycho- oglats tested a large crowd of all

people.

sorts

of

чуда were

The test took place on a perfectly lovel stretch of ground.

An object on the horizon

they pointed out to them! blindfolded, and told to get there.

They

started off, some running, some walking, some in enra, Ali went in circles, something like a spiral spring.

Shoulders must be square, but nol paddedt a soft roll on the lapel; sleeves narrow,

but not too draw....

THURSDAY,

eutling of the cloth. If you go to a Cheeks give width, but keep to the awank tailor they cut a paper pat- tern from your 'measurements. They keep this as a permanent record of your physical peculiarities and use it to rut your suits.

small ones. There is only room for one or two large checks on a nar- ́ row chest, which looks funny.

Because checks give

width fat men should avoid them. Beat thing for a short, fat man is a fine striped Checks make you pattern. Stripes give height.

look fat

Interesting are the ways of mak- ing men more impressive than they are.

OCTOBER 29, 1996.

Let's face the music and-- DANCE

Can you answer all these? Men do not seem to care much about dancing. The very man who feels miserable for days i ho lets his partner down at bridge treads her feet into the dance floor qulle remorselessly. It might be a good social In- vestment to develop your cons- efence In this direction.

Try to answer these questions truthfully. You're pretty good If they do not find some Raw in your dancing technique, Ideal man would reply a supercilions "No" to all of them.

Do you selxo your partner in a vice-like, grip and chase her round at high speed, dodging and awerving, humming the tune into her car?

Do you drapo your arm damp- ly about her and amble after her, oozing sentimental thoughts? Do you belong to the "Oh, there's nothing liko an old- fashioned

waltz school," which lovea dancing, but leaves part- ners to fend for themselves?

Do you push her round with your left hand and chest In-

Riead of gulding from well for- ward blpst

Do you dance as if you are doing your duty instead of lak- ing your pleasure?

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If you sit down a lot be careful about buying plain dark materials AMOY like blue serge. They shine. Lately DANOKOK. they have been making dark BATAVIA materials with a sort of covering CALCUTTA layer which prevents shining,

Best anti-shine materials aro covered worsteds with a rough sur-

No good tailor puts a wide lapel on a tin man's sult. It accentuates face.

the narrowness of his shoulders. If you want to be fashionable next

A Welsh layman's hobby is listened ing to sermons. In Wirty-seven yours he has heard three thousand in. All were quite sure that they

how they thought they were do- From time to time they were ask-| -|

sermons.

ali

A Lincolnshire schoolmaster spends

were going in a straight line.

Some went in big circles, some in

measurements

his spare time travelling the small. Leg

were

country making pictures of wind-e-to-try to account for this, the mills.

Idea being that the difference was due to difference in size between the

He has more than 800 now. Another man collects spiders' webs and keeps them between sheets of two legs. There was no connection. gines.

From stamp collecting, hobby of king, to cigarette card collecting, hobby of every small boy, there is no limit to Ure variety of hobbles.

George Robey collects violina, Jack Hulbert

The whole trouble is believed to of the be caused by a mechanism nervous system which gives us the circle urgê.

a ton.

collects old tonsils, Jean by one man, Just as a hobby. It) Forbes-Robertson finds enjoyment in contains 8,040 pages and weighs half operating model railways.

world's Many people like playing with toy

and

In Warwickshire is the Anest

collection of policemen's soldiers. It is the favourite hobby truncheons and bludgeons, gathered of D. L. Murray, novelist

essayist, who can muster up a fine array of thousands of miniature troops.

by one man over the last night years,

Toy Soldiers

At a hobbies exhibition in London

- Retirement

the collections included 20,000 bones, Sound advice was given by the 5,000 of them being wishbones, Duke of Kent, then Prince George, "Penny-Dreadfuls" pt the last cen-when he opened a railwaymen's Pot tury, and four-leaf clovers and Show. malch-box labels,

Most people collect things as a hobby, but many people make things, too.

A South Yorkshire miner carves coal with a small knite into models and statuettes,

The largest Bible in the world, at Los Angeles, was printed and bound

..

"should

"Every man", he said, have a hobby, and if it can be made

to pay, so much the better."

If you are tall and thin you do year stick to Coronation blues and best to "stick lo quiet patterns, greens.

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