New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
MUST HAT TIPPING GO?
Difficulties of Managing Summer
Headgear Cause Many Gro-Cls-

Considerable growing has been heard this
summer concerning the trouble, the inconVcnl-
ence and the difficulty of raising and replacing
properly and at the right angle on the head
the soft-ri1nned straws, cloth caps and 1eIr
fedoras that men wear so much in hot weather.
Run1ors come from Philadelphia that there Is
an anti-nat raising league forming among men
there to do away with the practice of tipping
this soft headgear as a salute to women
This form of bowfng has indeed many disad-
vantages and it has been urged, belongs prop
erIy only to the days when it was invented 10
raise the hat drop the head, arch the back
and sweep the ground with ones long feather
WAS a pretty custom and went well with the
graceful cape, the curls, the sword and the
sWashbuckling top boots But what style Is
there in sweeping a stone pavement with
DERBY hat or with a skinner or a stovepipe?
Obviously say its enemies, it is but a sur
vivaI and a useless one. since it serves the pur-
rose neither of pleasure nor of art. With the
former stvIe of dress the bow was subject
for the wielder of brush and chisei But who
would ever dare waste enough marble to make
a statue of a modern man bowing?
Besides no one who has not even worn them
can realize the many difficulties and dangers
of raising these soft, unrnanageabe modern
hats.
Take a man wearing a fine panama. for in
and Immediately must his hand fly to his head
and the wabbIy brinned creation somehow must
h. snatched off The brim of a panama has
very little more control over the crown than
if il were on some one else's head, and 1t usu-
ally takes two hands to get the thing on again
IF YOUR other hand is carrying large or pre-
ciol1s bundle, what are you to do! or course
vou can grasp the hat around the crown, in
the first place, and lift it bodily from your
baad in which case you have the situation we'll
in hand for putting it back again. But very
likely YOU have left the imprint OF your moist,
bot and probably dusty fingers on its immacu-
late whiteness
IF however the panama is a disposition de-
| e+rover when it comes to the bow, what words
will describe the antics of the outing cap? Easy
enough to pull it off always, no matter that It
leaves YOUR hair tumbIed about as though You
had been in 4 pillow fight But getting It back
again when it is all curled up at the back
and foppIng like 4 torn sail in the wind is
another story No. bowing gracefully with a
soft cap is an absolutely impractica5le thing
As for the fedora no Gainsboroush hat is
more difficult of adjustment than this limp af-
fair and TO look its best it must be put on
with the aid Of a mirror
As a pleasant relief from the burdens and
combinations Of the hat-tipDins system IT IS
suggested that we substitute the military salute
in hot weather. This has possibilities and es-
recjalIy SO if women also adopted it in place Of
the smile
An essay might be written on the smile IN
vogue at the present time salute, aEiii many
things might be said against is too great evan
escence and its many dubious quahtles- As
form Of recognition il is almost as unsatl5L3C-
tory to women rs the manipuia tlon OF inc s"ir