Show PASSING OF THE SILK HAT headgear not fashionable as it was years ago tile the silk hat said the manager ot of a fashionable hat store has about run its courso course for day wear only elderly men and comparatively faw ol of them wear it in tho the daytime fifteen years ago we often sold more silk hats in a day than we now sell in two weeks young men wore them then both day and evenings you could see sec processions professions process ions ot of silk hats on broadway and all the downtown streets but bat the slik silk hat will return its passing Is merely a whim of fashion it is the most dressy hat bat a man can w wear e ar and also uie the most economical A good silk hat bat will stand more wear end tear than three derbys or fedoras it can be ironed to look like new no matter what lias has happened to it most alost of our customers are well to flo do but lots of them in the old days wore silk hats tor for economys sake A few do yet tor for that matter but they are men mea past middle life new york sun |