New Britain herald., 1915-09-08
EXIT. THE SPORT SHIRT.

EXIT, THE SPORT SHIRT. Atlantic ,city. that happy cky,
 do-as-you- please resort, has at last taken stand. Itthas banished from
 it's Nboardwalk. the, sport shirt. Rlsht
 over,into the ocean it pushed the now ing collar andathe latest innovation m
 mems wear has been ,drowned. 1t
 has gone down three times' never to be revived. No pulmoter Will ever
 resuscitate the poor, old sport snlrt' Atlantic City which has stood for al
 most everything from wrist watches
 to monocNes just could' not let the sport shirtalive. And how many VIII
 rise up in atheir wrath and decry against the aboulevardiers for thelr audaeious treatment of the garment which worked it's way in upon our civilization in thei darkness or the night .without any trhNne or reason! Where>are the cohortsi who will rally to the memory of the deceased? Where are the legionAof thelloyal ones who will tavenge thisAoutrage? Let them go onto Atlantic<City, singing as they go the Hymn of Hate against those who desecrated the' effervescent, bubbling, gurglingt influence of the sport shirt.
 It is rather late in the season to mourn the loss oftthe. sport shirt It would have diedF,a natursd death when the work of old .Boreas got fair start. With all due respect to it's sponsors we are not | at all loath to have it go. Comfortable it was, or at least it lookedi as if it might have been easier on the neck than the starched collar. But ye gods! It was frightful affair.", No bogie man could scare children properly unless garbed in the grotesque garishness of a spectacular, stupendous sport shirt. It gave to it's wearer the appearance of a turtle trying to crawl out of it's shell, or of a gargoyle at Westminster Abbey. It made the human head take on the appearance of large sized succulent lime. It reduced all men to the same level; the banker, the butcher, the bricklayer. the bunco man; all looked alike when clad in the cringing, creepy, creamy, sport shirt.
 Few there are who know from whence the sport shirt came. AS a matter of history it is interesting to note that the first sport shirt was worn by Lord Byron the great Eng fish poet and court favorite. He was the first one to popularize the flow ing collar and it's dramatic effect. It's famboyant and f1abbing ends are all characteristic of romanticism, sen timent and passion so aptly termed Byronic. There have been many. gems of thought given to the Eng fish language by George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, but who will bless his efforts in handing to an innocent pos l terity this perf1dious oracle of style l that should bear his name but which l has been dubbed sport shirt? Truly | it takes a sport to wear one. Only | the young and unsophisticated should have the temerity to clad their per sons in this garment of the seven teenth century. One naturally looks for it's wearer to be bedecked with those other monstrosities, a parasol' monocle, mustache, spats, and wear ing a silk handkerchief tucked up his sleeve. Stand back, ye Romans! Dare ye not lay a finger on the men who drowned the sport shirt at At lantic City. They have done a great thing for suffering humanity. If this garment comes to the surface next year it should meet a similar fate.
 "DANGER."