"Clothes,'"" supposed to be a subject of supreme interest to women but of little moment to men, was the: topic selected recently at an address delivered to the members of the Manchester Rotary Club by Mr. H. R. Boydell. Judging from what the speaker had to say on "Clothes and the Man," the age we live in is wholly and solely utilitarian for according to Mr. Boydell, we are out for comfort, and we do not want the frock coat and the silk hat." He confessed that he would like to see, in these drab days, ''a return to a little more of that stateliness for which the Victorians were known, a little more sanity and content of mind and body so that England might yet be greater than ever she has been before." This little bit of patriotism does not seem to have much connexion with the question of clothes, either of man or woman. But is is refreshing to hear a good} word spoken-of the much derided Victorian. days. Certainly the clothes of the Victorians—the pes-top trousers and "toppers" of the men and the crinolines of women: are not likely to be held up either} for the admiration of the emulation: of this or any other age.
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