The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-04
WALES SETS M.
STYLES IN
CLOTHES
Society Disappointed, Turns
to Study OF His Manners,
Which It Adopts
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has been a despairing sameness
about his clothes ever since he set
foot off the Berengaria last Satur-
day. He has worn the same hats
q smashed, turned down Panama
on hot days, br a broad brimmed
gray felt turned up or down in cool
weather.
Copying His Manners.
His shirt every day with lounge
suits has been blue, with a blue
collar attached. His ties have been
russell or brownish red Indian
prints. with bandana handkerchief
Of the same hue.
His suits were grey some times
with a pin stripe, other times with
q hair line criss-crossing in large
checks. Seldom has he been seen
with other than tan suede shoes.
The polo set gave up hope little
by little. day after day. There
seemed nothing about the princes
clothes to copy.
Then the eyes that were turned
on him wherever he appeared be.
gan noticing his distinctive gestures
and mannerisms.
Wales, when lie Is a little bored,
stands with his weight on one foot,
the other turned out at an angle
or ninety degrees. He shifts his
weight from foot to foot every few
minutes. turning the free toe at
corresponding angle. So does Long
Islands smart set-now.
Athletes Adopt SLOUGH
The prince, when the sun is hot,
never takes his hat from his warm.
ing head. He merely grasps the
brim and shoves it backward and
forward several times to shuttle
up his hair. So does Long Islands
smart set-now.
Long Island used to stand erect,
chest out. looking for all the world
like an outdoors athlete. Then it
saw that Wales, who is an athlete,
slouches bit, even stoops at times.
1t has picked that up.
He lights his cigarettes in the
wind by shielding them with his
hat. That's very Long Islandese
now, too.
Besides, its the custom here to
hold the cigarette between fore
finger tip and thumb and rid 1t
of its ashes with a sweeping ges-
ture through the air, rather than
by tapping it with the stiffened
forefinger.
Since the heir to Britain's throne
has revealed prediction for
cheap American cigarettes, the to-
bacconists Of Long Island see their
Egyptian and Turkish brands get
ting dust on the shelves.
Shocks the DOwagers.
Then there's the business of
being just yourself at all times
that the elite have taken up from
the prince.
He watches the polo practice
from a perch on the knife-edged
sideboards, rather than from the
comfortable deep chairs In the en-.
closures roped off for members
only"
Twice Wales shocked dowagers
and their daughters who rather
thought he'd be over among them,
by picking out some obscure point
where the chaufeurs of Long
Islands imported EIispano- Suizas
congregate to smoke their cigar
cites and exchange backstairs talk.
The same dowagers and de.
butantes could not believe their
eyes when they saw His ROYAL
Highness take a match stick and
scratch and dig in the mud at his
feet.
ChewS Blades OF Grass.
They gasped when they saw him
chewing blades of grass. Once the
prince boldly scratched his leg
where a fly had bitten him.
At about the same time Major
Metcalfe, H. r. HIS equerry, seated
beside him, blandly worked back
one trousers leg and adjusted a
garter, as II there were not half
a hundred pair of binoculars trained
on the pair from as many points
IN the "for members only section. :"
Consequently, Long Islanders,
harrassed by mosquitoes, no longer
bubble about scratching them.
selves, whether Lord be there to
see.
They also have copied the
princes habit of examining his
carefully blocked hat into a pulp
between his knees when he wishes
to use his hands to applaud some
skillful stroke of a polo mallet.
May Take to Trees.
Feminine Long Island, too, is
learning that some of the stuff
about Wales being almost girlishly
shy Is nothing but stuff.
They have stared at him when
they found him looking their way
and haua haAn a1irnEriaad "a PI1d