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Show Chimney Tot.. When we reflect with satisfaction how far we have emancipated ourselves from the restraints of fashion in the matter of teitrds, does it not seem marvelous that wo still endure tho oppressive, though nnwritten law which constitutes the rhimney pot hat to bo the only decorous headdress for well to do male humanity? Woe! woe! a'sthetic woe to the sons of men who, having cast aside one after another the Phrygian cap, the furred birrus, the slashed bonnet, the knightly beaver, the three-cooked hat and the ; feathered glengarry, have resolved that whosoever will enter good society must bind his brows with tho gloomy cylinder! Noun bus a word to say iu its favor; every one hates it and condemns it. In traveling the hideous object has to be provided with a rqiecial case, yet for more than three generations it has been held indispensable. There is a cynical levity in the ribbon which still encircles ita rigid circumference, recalling tho happy days when a hat band was a l reality, ud to adjust the flexible covering cover-ing to the head. Odious as it is admitted admit-ted to be, perhaps tho most serious objection ob-jection to it from the point cf view of taste is tho hindrance it presents to any tendency in our other garments to become be-come more picturesque. Every visible j article of outfit has to lie brought to tho Hr-sthetie. level of tho headpiece. A chimney chim-ney pot hat crowning a tasteful costume reduces it to ridicule. Blackwood's Magazine. |