ABOUT HANDKERCHIEFS
Have you ever wondered why handkerchiefs are square. We have so many colours and designs in our modern handkerchiefs, but they are always the same shape. Why shouldn't we have oblojigs, triangles or ovals? As a matter of fact, handkerchiefs were once made in these and other miscellaneous shapes, but it occurred to Marie Antoinnette, the ill-fated Queen of France, that it would be much more convenient to have them square, and she persuaded King Louis XVI. to issue an edict, or order, that after a certain j date all handkerchiefs were to have their length and their breadth equal. The translation of the actual wording is: "The length of handkerchiefs shall be equal their width throughout my kingdom." The date of the cdict is June 2, 1785, and sincc that time all handkerchiefs have remained square. The fashion that Avas thus made compulsory in France in the 18th century, at the instance of Marie Antoinnette, has become the voluntary fashion of the Avliole world to-;day.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 36, 1 April 1942, Page 6
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168ABOUT HANDKERCHIEFS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 36, 1 April 1942, Page 6
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