Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1912 — Fashions Long Kept Up. [ARTICLE]

Fashions Long Kept Up.

The British admiralty’s annual » der for black silk handkerchiefs for the navy, recently placed for 90,600, led to inquiry:, “why black?” It is said to be as mourning for Nelson’s death at Trafalgar. Another instance of long-continued mourning is Shown In the dark clothes officially worn by tho Anglo-Saxon rue; at the decease of the duke of Gloucester, Queen Anne's heir-apparent the bar went Into mounting and has never doffed this, though the lapse of the Stuart dynasty on the British throne wu scarcely to be regretted Doubtless the largest following of one fashion by men was after Alexander jet the style of having the face cleanshaven; this was kept up by the Graeco-Homan world for five hundred