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Show Men are popularly supposed to be . very Independent creatures when it V. comes to selecting their own wearing ,,"e?fl", apparel. Mothers, wives and sfsters, Indeed, are held to have such poor ') taste in the matter that the Christ- I. mas necktie Joke has come to be one v of civilization's most honored and an- clent bits of humor. But there is an- I other side to the story. The Inevitable Inev-itable statistician tells us that 80 per cent of the trading done In the coun- i try's haberdasheries Is done by worn- en. So now the secret Is out. It may be that the necktie Joke has been V perpetuated as a sort of smoke screen f to hide the true facts. If 80 per cent s of the haberdasher's trade comes from women. It is easy to believe that fully as much or more of the men's furnishing purchases in regular department depart-ment stores are also made by wom en. Friend wife may not know a man's necktie when she sees one, but she seems to be a pretty good buyer of shirts, socks, pajamas, union suits, and all the rest. |