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Show B .'DOWN WITH STARCH. B Haberdashery manufacturers are advising customers BBV that in these war times unstarched goods will be the style BBBBBaBlflBK BaffflBi '''iBBBBk flfflfflr "Jflfflfflfs BBBBBBBBB " BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB Stafch'has fpad value; Tijis spells the doom of the boiled k shirt; Likewise s&fcheff pollars may have to go. If Thomas Carlyfe's clothes philosopher had lived until . now he could have written an eloquent chapter on the 1 boiled shirt: A' Sunday church congregation did not feel J based on sound doctrine unless all the men wore them. The boiled shirt cast its air of stability over every gathering gather-ing of business men. When thieves and pickpockets and confidence men wished to pose as substantial merchants, they put on boiled shirts and deception was complete. Informal habits and out door sports have now spread among men, and accustomed them to wearing the mos-comfortable mos-comfortable kind of clothes regardless of fashion plates. Starcher bosoms have been driven back to last, mtrench-ments mtrench-ments at weddings and balls, and neglige goes for every day life and business. The stiff starched collar has an extensive ancestry of discomfort. The chokers and stand-up collars worn by our ancestors suggest that old fashioned life was not as simple as it is cracked up to be. Later men wore turn down collars, col-lars, starched, but so low as to be comfortable. But these were not dignified enough for sons of pride. So the modern mod-ern stand-up collar was devised. At first it was a cleverly conceived instrument of torture with sharp points intended intend-ed to macerate the i under chin. Then some humanitarian conceived the idea of turn over points which relieved the lacerated flesh to some extent. Then another son of mercy got up the high band turned down, which offered a rounded round-ed edge to tender flesh. Today millions of men wear comfortable unstarched soft collars. The dandical phophets, as Thomas Carlyle would have said, grieve at this decadence of dignity. The sons of labor rejoice, and are glad to learn it is considered suitable to war times. n i |