1 OCTOBER 1927, Page 16

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—It may interest Mr. Bridgland to learn that, in Japan, where the professional and commercial men have fallen to the craze for Western frock coats, &c., the very first act of these men, on reaching home after work, is to get out of their uncomfortable garments and into their " airy kimonos."—