SCENE: THE PALM BEACH CASINO AT CANNES

February 1936. This on-the-spot sketch of Riviera resort fashions, quite aside from its obvious decorative ping, has its uses as a check-up on prevailing plage fashions, because our southern resort fashions follow those of the Riviera almost as closely and as constantly as lunch follows breakfast. The figure in the left foreground is typical of the resort dress of fashionably informed Englishmen and Frenchmen. From pork pie hat to crocodile shoes, with grey and white flannel between. Note that the double-breasted jacket has only four buttons instead of the usual six, also that it carries welt pockets and side vents. The muffler is blue silk foulard with white spots, usually worn over a light-weight polo shirt. The background figure shows the Cannes-engendered white linen beach shirt with navy blue pirate's stripes, which opens all the way down the front, worn with blue linen beach slacks and canvas espadrilles.

Style details

• pork pie hat
• crocodile shoes
• grey and white flannel trousers
• four button double breasted jacket (usual six)
• welt pockets and side vents.
• the muffler is blue silk foulard with white spots,
• light-weight polo shirt.

December 1934

Blacker than back is the midnight blue

This is the evening dress Outfit that partially standard equipment with London night lifers and is beginning to be seen in at the Smartest places in this country. The suit is of a fine fabric, in midnight blue instead of the conventional black. Actually. Light, it than tendency to appear Slightly greenish under the bright lights in the evening. Note. Epically with a. the extreme width and the stubby shortness of the lapels, that their facing is of a dull silk grosgrain. the shiny lapels out at the moment. Note that the shirt is of a tiny white linen, with white Studs. It opens at the front and has a row bosom. The high wing collar is wider than the white peal shape. The waistcoat is a singe breasted model, made backless, worn with black buttons. A distinguishing of feature this tailcoat is the absence of outside breast pocket. I Harvard red carnation worn as a boutonniere. It is made of feathers and its life is everlasting.

Esquire