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Show High Time Fashion fasense vised since men gave up wearing wear-ing powdered wigs. A NECKTIE accomplishes no useful purpose. It does not keep the wearer warm. It covers cov-ers no intimate anatomy. It is difficult adornment to put on and is a constant invitation to drops of greasy gravy. Still, it survives and shows no indications of disappearing. For a while it looked like turtle neck sweaters might accomplish accom-plish the trick, but the necktie hangs on, in spite of changes in style. It gets wider then it shrinks to a narrow string, but it continues. WHEN IT comes to men's styles, 1 think the Scottish kilt is one of the most attractive and masculine dress to have been developed in current memory. Properly attired in full regalia, what could be more striking than the kilt, wool knee t stockings, a suit jacket, beret. It would look terrible ter-rible over a bay window, but Scottish men don't seem to go to fat. Maybe they walk it off striding over their highlands blowing lustily on their bagpipes. bag-pipes. The Scottish kilt developed not as dictated to by fashion, but as a result of need. May be that's one reason it is so attractive. attrac-tive. It seems the men tending the sheep out in all weather of which they have much, mostly damp and cold, out among the gorse and heather which was wet, got tired of having wet trousers. So they wore a shirt which wouldn't get wet. They made it of wool and wore the long wool stockings for warmth. They wrapped it around twice in front for added warmth and in back, the pleats made four thicknesses of fabric. fab-ric. Then to top it off. they designed de-signed the plaid and each clan claimed their own. DESERT DWELLERS down where the nomads have herded their sheep lo these many centuries over oceans of oil. have developed a practical dress. White, loose, covering the skin and allowing for circulation circu-lation of air. Then they got civilized and put on western suits under their practical desert de-sert clothing. Perhaps no export from western civilization is less practical for most of the world than the men's suit. It's too hot for warm climates, it won't wash, it is difficult to make so the little woman can't run one up on the sewing machine, it is extremely expensive, it is inflexible in-flexible and unadaptable. It is also the closest mankind has " come to a universal costume. By FLORENCE BITTNER Logic has little to do with what we wear. Even people who stoutly maintain they will not be dictated to by fashion, then continue to wear clothing which is designed not by need, not by what is practical, but by the dictates of fashion. WOMEN ARE not more enslaved en-slaved by fashion than men; it's just that men's styles change more slowly and less radically than women's. In some ways, men are less logical logic-al in their clothing than women. At least most women don't continue to wear wool suits in the summer, complete with tight collar and necktie. Speaking of neckites. Let's. What do they accomplish? WELL, THEY cover the buttons on the shirt. They add a bit of color to an otherwise drab costume. They provide a chance for a little individuality in a rigid style pattern. Everybody Every-body else wears them. It may be training for having a noose around the neck. The necktie is as silly, useless, use-less, impractical piece of wearing wear-ing apparrel as has been de- |