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Show PASSING OF THE SILK HAT. Headgear Not Fashionable as It Was Years Ago. "Tho silk hat," said the manager of n fashlonablo hat store, "has about run Its course for day wear. Only elderly men, nnd comparatively fow of thorn, wear it In tho daytime. "Fifteen years ngo wo often sold moro silk hats in a day than wo now sell In two weeks. Young men woTo them then both day and evenings. You could sco processions ot silk hats on Broadway and all tho downtown streets. "But the silk hat will return. Us passing is merely a whim ot fashion, II Is tho most dressy hat n man can wear and also tho most economical. A good silk hat will stand moro wear nnd tear than threo derbys or fedoras. It can bo Ironed to look llko now, no matter what has happened to It. "Most of our customers aro well-to-do, but lots of them In tho old days woro silk hats for economy's sako. A fow do yot, for thnt matter, but they aro men past mlddlo llfo." Now York Sun. |