Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-07 | Page 13 | Sheik Clothes Lose Out

f f JF S 0 r Sh Sheik Shik ik Clothes Lose Out J I 5 S'S t c Q S 4 CRAZE for thick woolen shirts is spreadS spreading spread spread- d- d S f. f in ing among college and hi sch school ol lads he country ov over l Colors are gaudy such gaudy as 1 eft and black checkerboards checkerboards' The idea seems I i to 6 be to imitate the mackinaw coats of lum- lum tum-I tum J Its It's the healthiest sign weve we've 0 ob ob-i ob b p in the nations nation's youth for many a moon I S L lt It It suggests sugg-ests theres there's a reaction against what S r might be summed up as and loungeS lounge lounge- S lizard ism S S S l With great glee old timers will observe the thed d waning of an effeminate tendency in a considerable con con- number of American Americ n youths con I The want to look took lik like men he again Its It's I loo tiDO early to use the bromide that the country is saed saved But sanity is returning when youth I demonstrates the traits of virile sensible sen sen- sen- sen sible sibl manhood Styles are pretty good of national tendencies Condi- Condi I mions ions were very healthy years ago when boys ji fl n their late teens wore flannel shirts shirt's rough r top peg t maybe chewed tobacco on I th the sly read Nick Carter and from the East went nt west in n summer summertime ime to work in wheat wheatfields t f fields Ids for winter spending money S They belonged to a virile generation Their ragtime was healthier than han the modern I d decadent cadent form forr of of jazz There wasn't synthetic gin in those days The i typical Nick Carter Carter reader was a a a- much more morel promising 1 lad th than n t the e s sissy who doted on I pamby D books Signs of d decadence 1 v show up periodically in all civilizations But ButS S h the fhe ih e pendulum in America always swings back normal It may very well be that youths youth's S S cra craze e for rough IU- IU lumberjack shirts S j ni means means' ans' ans the be beginning of the end of jazz life 4 In m entirety The Covered Cover d Wagon type of fiction and nd movie is is eclipsing the sheik type I S This hIS also reflects reflects' a change in the audiences I especially e youth S. S