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Show NEW RICH APING FASHION 'OF OLD ARISTOCRACY j LONDON. June 12. There has been a very noticeable Increase in the number num-ber of handsome equipages on tho streets of London recently. Handsomo "tigers" with ornate cockades In tholr high hats aro returning to fashion. So aro ornato footmen. , During the war few persons wealthy enough to have a beautiful span of horses dared to incur public disfavor by using them in the fashionable thoroughfares thor-oughfares of London. "Tigers'' and footmen also were taboo, principally becauso, unless too old, they were fighting In France. Now they are once more In ovidence. but there In not the samo sense of toleration for this ostentatious osten-tatious display as in pre-war ycara. In the first place, thore is still a feeling that this Is "swank" No one pokos more sarcastic fun at theso ornato or-nato flunkeys than cx-soldler3. Many families of tho old aristocracy wore j so hard hit by the war that they can no longer afford stylish carriages, and this recrudescence of liveried footmen is only another ovidence of the ambition ambi-tion of tho now rich to ape the ways of tho old aristocracy. rr L |