GREAT BRITAIN: Fit for Kings

Perhaps no critic of London's Savile Row will ever surpass the wrathful British nobleman who once rode his horse into his tailor's, and while it messed up the carpet complained about his riding breeches: "Too tight at the fork and the kneepan, damn you, too baggy everywhere else!" Last week criticism in the century-old sartorial capital of the male world was being heard once again. The topic was still baggy trousers.

The controversy started when the Duke of Windsor confided that while he still gets his jackets in London, he now gets his trousers at...

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