It may at times be complained that we devote little of our space to men's fashions, but when we do know of anything in that line we are always ready to make it public. So, learning from an_ official commercial publication that hard hats are likely to supersede soft hats in the near future, we announce with pleasure the glad tidings. This business of fashions in hats is almost as fascinating 4s is anything to do with woman's finery. For instance the two best markets for silk hats are to-day South Africa and Australia, although why they particularly want them there is unexplained. One would rather have anticipated that countries such as Russia, Poland and Lithuania, who ave holding innumerable peace conferences, would be offering a distinctly strong market, for surely silk hats are the correct thing to wear for such gatherings. The concluding fashion note on the subject is that motoring shows a tendency to drive out the straw hat—what the trade and nobody else calls a "boater"—and that the light tweed hat is taking its place. That, of course, is all right for the easy, unconventional days of summer, but the sure return of the nation to paths of strict respectability is to be found in the revival of the bowler.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.