Dress Reform - The Attempt to Force Comfort Upon Men. Page from The Bystander July 14 1937. Men cling with pathetic firmness to their extraordinary clothes, some from conservatism, some from conventionality and tailor-domination. But the Men's Dress Reform League, shunning the clean sweep of the Nudists, are out to help. The board of experts who judged men's reformed dress were James Laver, Dr. A. C. Jordon, Dr. J. C. Flugel, and Mr. A. E. Bridgland.