In the fancy pants line, fine sheen gabardines and chinos prevail. To top them off corduroy shirt-jackets are the newest. Sport blouses with drawstring waists and cowl neck are another headliner. With colored braid and bow, sailor middies in white broadcloth are again popular.
Loose T-shirts can be worn with shorts and pedal pushers and are big news fashion-wise for beachwear when worn over swimsuits. Individual details on T-shirts include bloused cut, rib knit boarders, slashed sides, or sailor collars.
Sleek Swimsuits
In swimsuits the most important style of the year is the sleek, smooth suit. Elasticized faille is predicted a 70 per cent choice for swimwear this season, with vivid colors and stripes prominent. Cotton suits are noteworthy for their uncluttered look, and sleek lines are of course a natural in the knitted variety.
As the male population on the summer beaches watches the sleek-suited, T-shirted damsels parade by, the men will not be completely oblivious of their own apparel. For masculine sportswear the season's cry is, "Go East, young man."
The latest in sporty fashions come from the Far East and combine a fine masculine dignity with a great variety of fresh and colorful patterns. For beachwear, the fashion-conscious man may choose a collarless Happi beach coat with matching trunks in a bright, bold print.
Formosa Shirts
Sports shirts with a look to the East have unique patterns. Some have a Paisley-type design, and one two-tone shirt with a standing collar is genuinely Chinese. The Formosa sports shirt is another Eastern exclusive. Even with a conservative white shirt men who want the new look can get it with a Madras tie. There are bright patterned caps to top off the outfits.
Riviera Sandals
The more tradition dresser can go down to the sea in classic clamdiggers, in a spare, Italian cut, augmented by side vents for ease around the knees. With them he can wear a pull-over beach shirt styled with matching vents and a new Italian collar fastened with rope. To complete the Continental look are broad-brimmed straw hats with tapered crown and patterned band.
Footwear is following sportwear's unusual trends with a foreign touch: lightweight shoes of distinctive tropical leathers. An open-toed shoe for men is a daring first, patterned after Southern France and the Italian Riviera, where most men wear sandals.
The young debonair who is stepping out for a summer's evening should check up on his checks. Check-mating the fashion scene is a wave of box-like designs. In checks with plaids, the flannel-finish jacket of extremely light weight, two-or three-button model, is being worn with slacks of tropical worsted, cut along very trim lines.
Rope and Straw
Completing these high-fashion ensembles is the new Flat-top hat in fuzzy Shetland-finished felt, with a narrow brim and a sporty taper running up to an absolutely flat summit. There's even a bow in the back.
To add a finishing touch with a new-style belt, this season features rope, reptile skins, straw, and the more conventional felts and leathers--the male can be sure he is well-dressed when he goes to call for is date, who is doubtless wearing the latest styles herself.