FASHIONS: Best-Dressed Men

To various men come various honors. To Peter Arno, middle-aging glamor boy of Manhattan cafes, cartoonist for The New Yorker, went the honor last week of being chosen the best-dressed man in the U. S. The award was made by the Custom Tailors Guild of America, which ought to know.

Tall, splendid Mr. Arno owns 17 suits (averaging $125 apiece), 14 pairs of shoes (at $18 to $50 a pair), 36 shirts (at $9 a shirt), not to mention other odds & ends a man needs to keep himself decently covered. Said he, he never thinks about clothes, just dresses...

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