15 OCTOBER 1927, Page 18

MEN'S CLOTHING

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is it not lamentable that a Scotsman does not wear, in .a town, that most comfortable kit, .the kilt ? I feel sure that greater changes will follow if an example were set by Scotsmen who happen to be in town. Even in Scotland the percentage of kilted civilians is small ; but there can be nothing so prac- tical and servieable as a rough tweed or tartan kilt, and it will answer the requirements of style, A bank manager in shorts and _a Scotsman in a kilt. The fOrmeris the braver man; tont will probably never venture out before the latter.—