Essentially traditionalist in matter of men’s clothes, London is never more
conservative than in dress clothes, and the changes from year to year are of the slightest…The smart Englishman, however, does not carry a cane in the evening when he wears an overcoat. Nor does he wear do so with a dinner jacket. Gloves are not worn with the dinner jacket except in cold weather and for utilitarian purposes, when they are not white kid, but an ordinary town glove. For full dress, the correct glove is of white kid and quite plain.”
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