NICKS IN COAT LAPELS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 16

NICKS IN COAT LAPELS.

Few people know why there is a little V-shaped nick placed at the juncture of the coat collar with the lapel. Mold your coat up before you, and you will see at a glance that it will "set" jmt as well without the nick as with it. Therefore the matter of fit cannot be given as a proper solution of the fact that it is there. One has to go back many years to And the solution. When the first Napoleon gave way to his ambition he tried, to implicate General Moreau in Pichegru'a conspiracy. Moreau had been Napoleon's superior and was very popular, but under the circumstances, a« Napoleon was in the ascendant, it was not safe to express publicly any sympathy with Moreau; so his admirers secretly agreed to nick their coat lapels to show who they, were, Carefully note the outlines of the first coat front you see % that is well fitted and buttoned, and see if you cannot plainly detect the initial letter "M" in its windings. The "M" will appear upside down, the little nicks forming its sides. "M" was the initial letter of Moreau, and his champions were I known by the nicks in the lapels of their coats.