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

How to get the best suit

A

With these points in mind show your

tailor you know something about it.

VERAGE man goes to his tailor, does not

to between the first and second but-

tons, so that the top button is slight-

is dimeuit to do up.

At the back the cont should fall nway fairly loosely down to the

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

Result: nine times out of ten be does not get the best sult he can afford. U you show the tailor that you know something about it, that you are interested in the thing, you will get better resulta.

Watch the roll on the lapel

Essentials of a smart sult just now are wide, square, but not padded shoulders; narrow, not very narrow soft hips; well worked' up chest with a soft roll on the inpel.

The roll is important. In a double- breasted suit it should extend down

Happy people lead

DOUBLE LIVES

ALL the happiest people

lead double lives.

of thinking that a coal cut fight to the back is smarter.

Sleeves should be narrowish. Wide ones. make the shoulders look nar row.

The foundation of a suit is the canvas; thin in the sack-like material you find when the lining splits. The work put into the canvas plays n big port in the final appearance of the suit.

Swank tailor

keeps the pattern

For instance, the roll of the Japel is produced by making the canvas slightly looser than its lining.

More obviously important is the

Why you walk in Circles

They you

devote part of their time

their

YOU have no sense of direction,

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

sorta

of people.

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

and interest to their work Not long ago a group of psycho- and the rest of their time! Jousts tested a large crowd of all and interest to hobbies.

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

murder

An object on the horizon was pointed out to them they were

lindfolded, and told to get there,

They started alt, some running, some walking, some in cars. All went in circles, something like a spiral spring.

A Welsh layman's hobby is listened ing to sermons, in thirty-soven

From time to time they were nak- how they thought they were do-

were gelug in a straight line.

years he has heard three thousand in. All were quite sure that they

sermons.

A Lincolnshire schoolmaster spends the all his spare time travellink country making pictures of wind- mills. He has more than 800 now. Another man collects spiders webs and keeps Ultem between sheets of glass.

From stamp collecting, hobby at longs, to elgarette card collecting, hobby of every small boy, there is no limit to the variety of hobbles,

George Robey collects violins, Jack Hulbert collects old fosalls, Jenn Forbes-Robertson finds enjoyment in operating model railways.

world's

were

Some went in big circles, some in mull. Leg measurements- made to try to necount for this, the idea being that the difference was due to difference in size between the two legs. There was no connection.

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

by one man, just as a hobby. It containa 0,010 pages and weighs half a ton.

and

In Warwickshire is the

Many people like playing with toy Ancat collection of policemen's soldiers. It is the favourite hobby truncheons and bludgeons, gathered of D. L. Murray, novelist

Inst eight essayist, who can muster up a fine.

array of thousands of miniature troops.

by

years.

one man over, the

Toy Soldiers

At a hobbies exhibition in London the collections included 20,000 bones, $,000 of them being vishbones, "Penny-Dreadfuls" of the last cen- tury, und four-leaf clovers and match-box Intels.

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

A South Yorkshire miner carves coal with a small knife into models and statuettes.

Retirement

Sound advice was given by the Duke of Kent, then Prince George, when he opened a rallwaymen's Pet Show.

"Every man". he said, "should have a hobby, and if i can be made to pay, to much the better."

TELEGRAPH.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29,

Latiff

Shoulders must be square, but not paddedt a joli endi mu the lapel; sleeves narrow,

but wel ino Marrow

cutting of the cloth. It you go to swank taller they cal paper pai- tern from your measurements. They keep this as a permanent record of your physical peculiarities and use it fout your suits.

Checks give width, but keep to the small ones. There is only room for one or two jurge checks on a nar row chest, which looks funny.

Because checks give width fat men should avoid liem. Best thing for a short, fat man is a fine striped

Checks make you pattern. Stripes give height.

look fat

1936.

Let's face the music and

DANCE

Can you answer all theso? Men do not seem to care much about dancing. The very man who feels miserable for days it ho Icts is pariner down at bridge treads her feet into the dance floor quite remorselessly. It might be a good social In. vestment to develop your cons elence in this direction.

Try to answer these questions truthfully. You're pretty good if they do not find some flaw In your dancing technique. Ideal รอมท

would reply a supercilious "No" to all of them.

Do you seize 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 drape your arm damp-

ls' about her and amble after ber, oozing sentimental thoughis? Do you belong to the "Ola. there's nothing Ike an old- fashioned waltz school," which loves dancing, but leaves part- ners to fend for themselves?

Do you push her round with your left hand and chest in- stead of guiding from well for- ward hips?

Do you dance as you are doing your duty instead, of tak- ing your pleasure?

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