The Archive · 1927

WILL IT COME TO THIS?

The publication of a dispatch from Paris relating the appearance the Bourse of a young man in knee breeches, silk stockings and buckled Pumps comes close on the heels of a. similar report from Berlin, where the men's outfitters are ondeavouring to popularize this stylo of dress.

Nor is the Anglo Saxon as far from: a radical change in male styles as one may believe. Subtle evidences. of this crop up from time to time, and although no great response has eon yet seen, it is. a characteristic of the American male to swarm, there being few who brave the ridicrile of their fellow-men, without, company. Let there appear the; east sign of some marked change and many males secretly in their minds hope and look for its adoption by others of their sex.

Man is tiring of a continuously, dull, uninteresting appearance, and his normal, but repressed,—vanity may be expected to assort itself with astonishing suddenness: once a wave of popularity gets under way,,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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