Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1917 — Dress in London. [ARTICLE]

Dress in London.

Something might be said of the changes that three years of war have brought about in our clothes, says the Manchester Guardian. Evening dress Is not abolished, but It is becoming much less customary in theaters and restaurants, and people coming up to London who used to bring evening clothes with them no longer do so. Stiff white collars are disappearing, and the soft collar is worn by all classes. The democratic process had already set In at the house of commons. One remembers the shock that Mr. Keir Hardie’s cloth cap created on its first appearance there, but it has advanced immensely since the war began. Frock coats are in small and diehard minority. Spats are on their last legs. Top hats survive miraculously, it might seem, until one remembers their enduring qualities, so that their persistence is only a form of war economy after all.