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Among the important events of each day in Plainfield, one of the most momentous is the early morning Hartridge Fashion Parade, in which
the latest vogues are displayed for the admiring pedestrian spectators. As the revue passes in the foreground, one clearly perceives that the only permissible mode of wearing a hat is to perch it on the head at the most extreme angle at which it is able to maintain its position and at the same time cover the least possible portion of cranium. One gathers that the
most desirable ciualities for a bonnet are originality of design and oblique slant of situation.
A minute baseball cap developed in bright blue with a visor of ex­ travagant dimensions is one of the season’s most fetching creations, but “The Solid South” favors a Hattened, black felt fedora with its war cry on the band. Cireen berets are popular, though their place is at times taken by a green scarf worn immigrant-fashion over the head, and another
charming and colorful concoction is a rainbow-hued woolen model with a long peak extending up to a tassel.
Immediately after school the prevailing style requires that one carry an open-work bag through which pencils and small books may escape, and
that coats must stream out in the wind behind one. For rainy days a well decorated slicker Hies distractedly above a pair of galoshes which rival the coat in Happing ability, and the costumes of exclusive Hartridge society are
finished oH by the addition of exquisite crimson gloves of wool.
T. B.. 30.
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