They Don't Dress Up For Dinner Anymore

There used to be a time in every skier's life, after a hard day on the hill, after sauna, after drinks and just before dinner, when the ma tre d'h tel would say, "I'm sorry, sir, but you must wear a jacket and tie in the dining room." That was back in skiing's dark ages, say a couple of years ago, before a new sort of relaxed revolution began to take shape in what men wear to the mountains. This season the revolution has spread-a pair of suitably faded Levi's and cowboy hat will get you most Mulberry UK anywhere, and the year's newest touches lean more fashionably on the functional: shirts, sweaters, belts and vests, the kind of thing every man has got to have anyway. The people who design men's clothes have now turned Mulberry Outlet UK to such things as wool doubleknits (which will stand a lot of partying and stay presentable), cotton velvet and a fabric called ribless corduroy-which gives an appearance of velour or the moleskin that everyone wore back in the '30s. Some of the results of these innovations are visible at The Inn at Saw Mill Farm near Vermont's Mount Snow (opposite page). Winter revolutionaries Greg Herbert and Tonto Shadeau (top left) go the doubleknit route-Herbert in bold-striped shirt and Shadeau in a jump suit-and both wear wide leather ornamented belts. Belts are a part of the scene, studded with brass for looks and wild Western in styling. Ping-Ponging below, Rutgers Barclay shows up in a colorful Turkish sweater Mulberry Shoulder Bags and Herbert wears a ribless corduroy safari shirt, an easygoing outfit for after ski. Outdoors, Barclay wears his velvet jeans-they are imported from France in all colors and they are warm-plus a shaggy-looking reversible lambskin vest and tops it all off with a cowboy hat. Resident pinto pony Tybar is wearing what pinto ponies usually wear at this time of year, but if he appears a bit skittish there is good reason. Barclay's fur after-ski boots once belonged to a reindeer in Lapland.