Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-15

There are lots worse places to go OF
| a hot day than to work:
one OF the joys of the daily task i
| the little regarded one OF taking onet
mind off the heat.
| We refer, In the main, to the inside
| Job.
The Office worker who has a com
Portable chair and desk In normally
constructed building Is sitting pretty
although he may not know 1t.
Even on the hottest Summer after
| moons the Office worker Is not as hot as
| he might be some other places we neeC
not name.
when we see people swarming like
bees for the sake of amusement we are
inclined to think that most of them
would be better off at work.
We say these things because there Is
disposition in certain circles to make
out as If the indoor worker were a very
much abused man, when as matter
of fact he ought to be congratulated.
The reason why such contrary
oninion has arisen is because clothing
restrictions have conspired to make
men uncomfortable and hot.
If a revolution similar to what has
taken place among womankind were to
blow the top off mems clothing customs
and fashions, no one would hear COM
plants about going down to the office
on a hot morning.
During the past 10 years women have
been quietly but conscientiously re-
placing heavy, cumbersome clothing by
lighter stuff, so that todey they wear
next to nothing, and are correspond
ingly cool,
We believe that prevalent women's
~ tav,aAtc
the least of which is the more whole
some outlook upon the subject of the
feminine form but for the time we will
contine our discussion to the lesson
which men may now learn from women
Men are not in the habit of taking
many lessons from the so-called weaker
sex. For centuries. too, in the matter
of clothes, they plainly had the best OF
1t. Sir Walter Raleigh enjoyed the
freedom of knickers, even If he did do
so silly a thing as wear a wig, while
his friend Elizabeth went around in a
heavy dress down to the ground and a
gigantic couture weighing down her
head No wonder people were stiff
necked in those days.
Even so short time ago as the Dos
In this country the styles for women
called for yards upon yards of dress
goods, and as many, If not more, yards
of underclothing. No wonder the pop
uiar Joke as to how long 1t took q
woman to dress enjoyed popularity.
Well, all that is over now! Women
walk around in tennis frocks and other
light dresses. with a minimum OF
clothes underneath, and especially
without the restrictive binding which
men find necessary, even in their most
neglige costumes
No wonder a common expression has
arisen. "hot under the collar" Mems
collars. with all due respect to the
worthy manufacturers. who sell them
by the million every year, and will
continue to do so, no matter what
we say about it--men's collars, we
say. constitute the one great handicap
in hot weather.
Every male reader would be willing
to agree to our thesis, that work Is
a good place to go to on hot day,
If it were not for the collar with which
he insists on festooning his neck.
Gentlemen demand some style, OF
course Even the least stylish of them
have been known to look into mirrors
to see if their tie is straight And
the very thing that would save the
hot day is the very thing they don't
want--we refer to the very loose
collar.
There was an attempt some years
ago to popularize shirt with wide
open horse collar affair, known in the
vernaeular of that day as the "Gertie
shirt
Most men looked so exceedingly
sloppy in them that they died out by