Here is the fashion pictorial from Gentry Magazine, Number 19, Summer 1956

Silk is the perfect suiting for summer, but for men it has always had one big drawback. It has never had the adaptability of woolens and worsteds on the designer's drawing board and the weaver loom. Fine glen plaids have never been successfully incorporated into silk for the men's suits - until now. Gentry's stylists, working hand in hand with the master silk technicians of the Japanese firm of Kanebo, have finally licked the problem. Under this tissue you see a swatch of the first bolt of silk ever made with a glen weave. Superbly different in design, the material has still other remarkable qualities. It is a 4 1/2 ounce cloth, which makes for great lightness and coolness. It has fine wearing qualities, with a life span that will stretch through many hot seasons. Its wrinkles expired overnight on the hanger. On the facing page (Above)you see the first jacket ever made of this cloth. We had it designed and executed by Chipp, custom tailors of New York East 44th Street, under the supervision of Robert DiFalco. It's a three-button model, buttonable at the top or middle. Its lapels are extra narrow. Its patch pockets are smaller than usual, in deference to the fabric's design. Its coin pocket is not patch, to stop your loose change from bulging. (The flap on this pocket can be worn inside or out. ) The jacket is lined with silk black pongee, full-lined to make it hang with perfect aplomb, and it has a long back vent. We consider it a handsome addition to nay man's summer closet ; if you concur, you can take this blueprint to your tailor.

Here's a new chapter in our book on blazers. Its subject is foulard, the pliable small-patterned silk which is usually reserved for neckwear. Now we discover foulard's nice interplay of color, its airily light weight, its resistance to creasing, make it a natural for blazers too. The foulard pictured her is perfect for both daytime wearing and informal country-club evenings. We saw it at the Montague Beach Hotel in Nassau, in handsome red. Tailored by Currick and Leiken, sold at most fine shops, it's also available in navy.

socks, shirts and golf

On greens and fairways from Montego Bay to Palm Beach, a new fashion phenomenon : men and women, professionals and armatures alike, wearing the same-style sport shirt. Look at low-handicap amateurs Thomas Shelvin and Reginald Boardman, Jr., about to tee off at Florida's Seminole Golf Club with former national amateur champion Barbar Romack. All three are wearing the shirt of the season, It's the creation of designer Rene Lacoste, former French tennis ace. Along with the shirt you can buy Lacoste's lisle knee socks, which stretch to any desired length. Those Mr. Boardman is wearing are enhanced by hand-sewn cables

A bright new color, an exciting new imported fabric, and here's a parka that's perfect for drying off after a swim, for protection from sun and wind when you're on the beach, for warmth when you're out sailing. Its color : "Seaside red." Its fabric: "Velvet terry." It's been so named because on the inside it's pure, absorbent terrycloth, on the outside it has velvet's soft, luxurious look, Tailored in Denmark, photographed here at Round Hill, Montego Bay, the parka has a full zipper front and a zip storage for change, cigarettes and matches.

New Cloth For parkas

The barbecue shirt

Gentry's conversation piece-a gourmet print on a shirt designed especially for the outdoor chef. The polished finish of the cotton fabric makes it look exactly like freshly wiped oilcloth- and back-yard gourmets are bound to love it. Designed and tailored by Damon Creations, the shirt has motifs in red, rust, green, brown and black. No guarantee that it will improve your cooking, but an odds-on favorite to make you the best-dressed man at your next barbecue.