The war will teach lis to shed maay contentions. The top hat is one of the few outward and visible signs that oo* casionally remind us that there was sucU a t me as a world at peace over likely to hare a vogue m future? Ilia stiff collar and starched .shirt and the bowler hat are other articles of a, gentlomau's wardrobe that are popularity, and when the fighting BM P?k e off their putties will there a revolt against the hideousness" of ers 9 And the convention of gloves' Shall we give up wearing them at> all except in severe weather? The, affectation of wearing one glove and dandling the other seems, even m peaod time a rather senseless habit. .In th<J colonies and in the-United States mett wear gloves only when the weather otf their occupation compels them to, ana as for walking-sticks, they are never carried for ornament, hut only for use. The war has shown the folly of sncn superfluities and conventional affecta* tions as were dear to tho peam-tim* dawdlers.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16428, 23 January 1919, Page 5
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