Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will there be this summer to place the favorite dress pumps in the waste-basket, and hide the only white scarf behind the steam pipes? Who will there be to diminish the stock of handkerchiefs and read the letters from home? Who will there be to brush the cobwebs from the picture of Sir Galahad into the cigar humidor? Life will be barren indeed. Who will there be to pick up what the squads left about...
...following are the regulations for the uniform of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. They will be strictly observed, and no article of dress other than the prescribed uniform for tactical instructors and cadets will be worn...
...uniforms have already caused a change in habits and posture of the men wearing them. The traditional undergraduate indifference to the niceties of dress has been hidden beneath the smartness of olive-drab. The traditional undergraduate slouch is ironed straight in the square-shouldered cut of the military blouse. Clothing which is made to be worn well makes a man stand well. And when a man stands well, he is apt to to think well of himself, and of that service which he represents...
Olive-drab is the badge of a nation's fighting men. There must be no disregard of the uniform, no use of a part of it as a convenient riding or golfing costume. Men who are going to fight bravely must dress and carry themselves in accord with the honor of that lofty cause which draws their allegiance...
Take a belief in your destiny, borrow a dress suit, astonish a social gathering to which you had no invitation with your brilliancy, and your fortune is made. This is the philosophy of John Paul Bart, tailor's presser, self-made man, who in four short acts raises himself from nothing to the pinnacle of power...