Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
Dawes, Stunning Knee Brooches,
Runs True to Form In London

Fellow countrymen of Ambassador
Dawes are not surprised at his appear
alce at the Court of st. James In
modern evening garb instead of the
ancient costume with knee breecheS. It
is quite generally agreed that the pro-
ceeding was In keeping with the former
Vice Presidents personality, even If
there is disposition in some quarters
to question the necessity for such an
innovation.
Ambassador Dawes said he would
not wear breeches to the Court of st.
James. and Hell and Maria he didn't"
says the Charleston Is. c. Evening
Post, which, however, expresses concern
about the undressing pipe, and OBJ
serves that Gen. Dawes might as well
have gone without his pants as without
his pipe"
That the general forewarned those in
authority as to his sartorial desires Is
brought out by the Detroit News. MT.
Dawes did not want to wear knee
breeches.", the Detroit paper explains
HE intimated this fact to the lord
chamberlain. who replied that Mr..
Dawes could dress in any fashion he
wished. Mr.. Dawes then appeared in
ordinary evening garb, and nobody
thought the worse of him. AS
a Chicagoan Mr.. Dawes could scarcely
veal DLCCS1ACos 4LlC W4IOlC WGSI
would have grinned." Similarly the
Chicago Daily News remarks: ANY
citizen with a sense of humor and q
safety-first complex will not lightly per-
NIT himself to appear In public with
out his trousers. Ceremonial knee
breeches are well enough in their way,
but theirs is not the American way"
Nevertheless, suppose he had chosen
to wear them?" asks the Charleston
wv. Va.l Daily Mail. Would 1t have
disgraced either him or the country If
he had? Shades of Franklin, Jefferson
and Washington, all of whom, with
others Of their contemporaries. wore
knee pants and we're none the less re-
publicans for that probably Mr.. Dawes
has no particular aversion to knee
breeches. but he feels that as an Amer
lean citizen there is no particular rea-
son why he should make an exhibition
of himself in London official circles
and elsewhere by using them in prefer
ence to the ordinary pair of American
trousers"
Neither the silk knee breeches nor
the plus tours of modern vogue, the
Harrisburg Telegraph contends, en-
hances masculine appearance. THE
masculine leg is not ordinarily thing
Of beauty" says the Telegraph. "It Is
apt to be either of the pipestem or
boiled-ham size and shape. Either it
is pathetically thin or tragically fat.
Either it looks as though it had been
stretched to the limit of ductility or
hammered down by pile driver. Ma
ture evidently nodded when she nodded
the masculine neither limb. It's useful,
but that's about all"
The Buffalo Courier Express, how
ever insists the decision must not be
interpreted as a reflection on the archi-
lecture of the Dawes legs. It simply Is
an appreciation of the Dawes character.
A costume which in the case Of the ay-
erage diplomat merely would mean po-
lite compliance with ancient custom.
would involve in the case Of Mr.. Dawes
a surrender Of personality"
Dawes is a man who thinks for himself,
and he fell into line with. his fellow
countrymen when he left out the lace.
shirt, the silk knickers and the silver
buckles" This also is the opinion of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Here Is q
diplomat who within the proper limita-
lions of his profession will do his own
thinking and make his own decisions. |"
His acts to date, this paper declares, are
indicative of new diplomacy so far
as the Court of st. James is concerned"
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Ambassador to Great Britain as a
blunt American who could not be
bound by the silly, stilted customs Of
formality and artificiality which have
long since been abolished in his home
country" while the Bangor Daily Com
mercial speaks of him as "a man Of
action, direct and frank" who viii
continue world figure during his stay
at London"
"Shall the man who left his pocket
flap unbuttoned In the presence of his
commanding on1csr. Gen. Pershine. be
waukee Journal.
''Iong trousers being the palladium
of our liberties, long, long may they
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