Next Summer's Styles
The arbiters of men's fashions seem to have devised a number of radical innovations for the male's garb next summer.
It is written, we hear, that a new kind of pants is to make its appearance; a gaudy, Sybaritic affair, somewhat like a pair of basketball trunks, cut off six inches above the knee, which will leave a lengthy bit of leg exposed to the fresh air, the August sun and the curious public gaze.
This, they say, will be much cooler and more comfortable than the present trousers. Very likely that is true. Yet we shudder at the idea, somehow.
For, if the horrid truth must be told, the average male knee is not pretty. It is usually knobby somewhat hirsute, and altogether unprepossessing. Much as we like frankness and comfort, we feel that most men should, out of kindness to the great American public, keep their knees concealed.
