Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08

IN dom In dress Inc signs are I'M
/HA mistakable. Nineteen-thirty may
~ see pajama suits in vogue, shorts
and possibly paper suits The
fashions will range from the bedroom to the
beach via the Boy Scout route. If this is
doubted, study the trend of 1929 and the ex-
preSSions of men strongly before the public eye.
Study, for instance, the actions of w. o.
Saunders, Elizabeth City IN. c. editor Mr..
Saunders appeared in the streets of his home
city this Summer attired in gaudy night gear.
He thought it proper and right that men should
dress comfortably if women do Why should
man be denied the pleasure of meeting hot
weather halfway when the fair sex is SO privi-
legged? And Mr.. Saunders got away with It,
He was hailed into court by the dress funda-
mentalists" but little did it avail them. The
judge before whom the case came found no
violation of the dress code in the action of Mr..
Saunders. Instead, according to the press, he
rendered decision that is likely to set prece-
dent. He found no improper exposure of the
person" in the dress of Mr.. Saunders and COM
mended him for having the strength of charac-
ter to carry out an idea in dress that would
give him relief from the heat And that was
that. Pajamas won; no denying it, though
editors elsewhere scoffed and poked fun at Mr.
Saunders and asked all sorts of questions rela-
tive to pocketbook space in his new street attire
cigar receptacle and other personal matters
IN England there is Mems Dress Reform
party. Recently this party held meeting
at King Georges Hall. Tottenham Court road
Some $50 persons were present, clothed in short
trousers, tennis shirts, wooden stockings and
lounge jackets. No less parsonage than Dean
1nge, the gloomy dean" of st. Pauls, is a re-
ported hacker of this movement He is credited
with praising woman for her revolt against the
feminine styles of 40 and so years ago and the
A.
further reforms in the matter of milady's
clothes And Dean Inge would do no more for
women than he would for men. Did he not
recently appear at a private showing Of the
Royal Academy wearing a sleeveless shirt and
kilt?
just a few weeks ago. when the matter of
dress reform for men was absorbing the in
terest of America, when Old Sol was beaming
down on grubbing mortals in his most en-
thusiastic manner, veritable bombshell in the
matter Of mems dress vas let loose in WASH
1ngton. The bombshell was in the form Of
q local interview with DR.. Warren F.
Draper, of the United States Public Health
Service Said Dr. Draper: Certainly the
clothing which men are forced to wear today
is all wrong. Think of it. Here we are
preaching about the beneficial rays of the sun,
but men, when conventionally dressed, ex-
pose only their heads and faces.
1.-The pajama man is wrong. What we need Is a
new type Of clothing which will expose at least
our arms and necks and, if possible, our shoul-
ders to some extent. Dressed more normally
and comfortably, mems dispositions would GER
tainly be better. The dress Of today is not
even becoming. Sometimes I suspect these
wFetched clothes have been forced upon us
by men whose physical appearance is not what
It ought to be. The sympathetic cooperation
Of women would help a lot. We wear these
collars and coats partly because it is not sup
posed TO be courteous to women to go without
them"
Thus we have expressions of medical clerical
and public opinion in favor of dress reforms
for men by men of standing. To the indi-
Viduals quoted advocating new Summer toggery
for man, can be added the opinion of Waldemar
kaempfert, director of the Rosenwald Industrial
Museum, Chicago Mr.. Kaempfert is Of the
mind that mans ensavement to modern dress
will be broken by the adoption of paper suits.
These suits he believes, will cost about 50 apiece
and will be discarded when no longer service
able. Speaking Of them, he says: THE hbers
will be made of paper and will be spun like
cotton or wool, then woven into attractive pat
terms. Instead of being sewn together, the
woven paper will be glued. man will step
into clothes shop, where an expert tailor viii,
in few minutes. drape strips of paper about
his form and then fasten them with fish glue
Such suit-unlike paper towel-will be
unaffected by rain and hold its shape for two
weeks, after which it can be thrown away and
a new one purchased
There is no question" continues Mr. Kaemp-
fert, about present-day clothes being quite
mad. But we are slaves of convention. Al
though 1000 men marching to work in paja-
mas would liberate us from the present style
Of tyranny, it is impossible to find 1000
such men. The paper suit is our only hope"
WOMEN are at last free They have dis
carded those heavy garments which well