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Mess Jacket GaINing on “Tails”
For formal evening wear, the die-hards still retain their fond preference for the black dinner jacket or complete tails, but with those who prefer coolness with their formality, the white mess jacket has gained tremendous popularity. These jackets have about them a dash of their original Indian flavour when worn with the cummerbund, a bold sash of black silk about the waist. Two or more pert black buttons relieve the glossy white of the jacket. Such dress is correct on every occasion warranting tails or dinner jacket.
The Courier Mail, 1934
Initially, Rowland searched for Abercrombie, but in amongst greeting guests, the odd conversation and being dragged occasionally onto the dance floor by both old flames and potential ones, the quest became impossibl
