Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard students continue to wear felt hats in the middle of June? Straw hats, the dealers say, have been the genteel headgear for men for nearly a month, yet statistics compiled by a CRIMSON reporter late yesterday afternoon showed three out of ten Harvard men wear straws...
Standing in front of Leavitt and Peirce's for half an hour, the reporter obtained the following statistics: felt hats 109, straw hats 79, no hats 28, caps 24. There was also one postman in uniform. The weather was warm and sunny...
Most of the passers-by were Harvard students or professors, except those who were caps. Only two of the latter seemed to be undergraduates. The straw hatters gained rapidly for a while, but this gain was discounted when the reporter realized that one man in a battered last year's straw was plodding back and forth between Holyoke House and a second-hand bookstore, each time disposing of a high stack of text books...
Such is the danger latent in the period of graduation. The well-known banalities are less than useless the graduate armed with them is fighting with a straw. The remedies are but two abolish the speeches, or reshape them to the time...
...fifty-eighth anniversary of the momentous change from winter hats to summer straws is being observed by the whole male population of this country and the haberdashers around the Square are planning a record sale this spring. Since the inauguration of the custom, it has become one of the most popular fashions for men, and the Straw Hat Manufacturers' Association has prepared an elaborate history of the head-wear dating from pictures of Juno on old Greek vases and coins of 350 A.D., wearing a "Stephanos", which is described as "an inverted peach basket". The first styles in America were...