Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1913 — Do Not Want the Big Head. [ARTICLE]

Do Not Want the Big Head.

Shoe manufacturers who talk of making changes in the numbering of women’s shoes, so no woman can find out just how big her foot is, are likely to be joined by hat manufacturers who may change the size of men’s hats, so no man can tell JustJiow big his head is. “More and more I notice a disinclination among men to acknowledge that they wear unusually large hats,” said a clerk in a hat store. “There was a time when a head that required a hat of prodigious size was a possession to be proud of, but of late years big heads are unpopular, and <he men who have to ask for rather largfrsixed hats seem ashamed of themselves. “Of course, men will require the same sizes in hats no matter how the numbers run, but it will let them down easy to think that they are able to lop off an eighth of an inch in the circumference of their headgear.”