Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-21
Significance Found i'm CHANGE
Of Kings Style i'm Trousers

While British official has denied
that King George has adopted the
democratic style of creaSing his trou-
SerS in front instead of on the side, the
American press likes to believe the
cabled report of the change. 1t is
said to have taken place while the
King was on his Summer vacation.
Comments indicate appreciation of
parallels in political. sociological and
other realms. and some points of his
tory are emphasized.
Perhaps herein Is example of the
spirit of the times" suggests the Bos-
ton Transcript, with the explanation:
1T has been said that, back in the
days when royalty set the fashions, it
was the inability of a deformed prin-
cess to ride astride that introduced
the side saddle on which women rode
for generations thereafter. How many
fashions have similarly been set by
physical defects and blemiSheS in
royal perSonageS nobody can say. Nor
can it be said how many more have
been established through royal whims
and fancies. But today a King who
was a sailor prince has his trousers
pressed starboard and port, and his
faithful subjects go right along wear
ing neither garments pressed fore and
alt, anu ITO one HldkeS 10
lese majestic. And having made this
state of things apparent by following
the royal prerOgative in the matter
of the application of the tailor's press
ing iron, the King changes his mind,
and instead of setting the fashions
adopts one established in accordance
| with the ideas of his subjects"
X X x X
EsIn cboor hrayodn Coororo hold ont
for the privilege of wearing his pants
| creased his own way" says the
Omaha World Herald, but he had to
give in at last. If he lives long enough,
he will doubtless become a 100 per
cent democrat and wear his trousers
with bulge at the knee and only a
| faint suspicion of a. line to show that
| they were creased once when they
were new" That paper, however, ad-
| mits that remains of the royal pre-
rogative to set the fashion still linger.
| Once upon a time" it records, "a
| careful Prince of Wales turned up the
| bottoms of his pantaloons to keep them
| from getting wet and dragged. All
| over the civilized world men went
about with the hens of their trousers
inside out. The custom was made per.
manent when tailors began fashioning
4 TROUSERS WIlIl d Gull dC tie UOllOIll VI
each leg. Now the trouser cuff is al.
most as well established as the two
| or three buttons on the coat sleeve
which probably also had an origin in
some princely whim."
| "A mere trif1e. you say: SO it's" ad
| mits the Asheville Times. But in
| these days. when fashion enjoys such
authority" continues that paper, 1.-The
dress of a King assumes unusual sig
| nilicance.' And the New York Eve
ming World remarks: IF Mrs. Hum
phry Ward could come back and give
us new scenes and conversations at
| country house parties, this palace
revolution would enter into literature
Grave and reverend masters of the
state cannot be Indifferent, and the
| imposing figures in the drawing rooms
discussing the same event as the men
and women in the servants quarters
| would illustrate the onward rush OF
| democracy in England. What does
Premier Baldwin think about it? What
| is the reaction of the Labor party?
! Will the little Communist group find
| an issue? And how about the Prince
| Of Wales?"
well, the strange part Of the whole
situation" according to E. X. H. in
| the Newark Evening News, lis that
| nobody knew until the news broke
that King George hadn't been al