HIS LOVE OF COLOUR.
Neckties and socks proclaim nian!s barbaric taste for gorgeous colourings (saysi tlie"Australasian").' Nowadays ties-become' 50- noisy that the young'man is like the horse in the Book of Job,"his neck is,clothed in thunder," and his feet, if a similar metaphor ris ;to be .'used, .must ,be said'to. be' encased in typhoons.- 'The foot-gear is- spotted: -and itriped aiid. tortan;.fiior©; is no eccentricity if tropical .beauty; which is -forbidden from the ankle,to the jtoe.-/ TiVhatl most admire, is -tho.sßU with,which.the young man displays lis socks in a tram or railway-car. ;He seals - jmsohY crosses the left leg over the right, ;ives a delicate twitch to- one.trouser-knco. nd, behold, his foot, blossoms.m green, and ;old, purple and red I And he does it all with sublimely ftbsont air, as- though-he really 'idn't; know whet&or. he. was gearing black .ocks or blue^—or, indeed, anyit'aili"•:.- ■■-•:
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 544, 26 June 1909, Page 11
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144HIS LOVE OF COLOUR. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 544, 26 June 1909, Page 11
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