CHANGES AT ETON
(Received September 24, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 24.
Most of the 1060 boys at Eton College today arc wearing second-hand clothes, boots and top hats. Hundreds are even making their own white ties from paper. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent says: "I have seen sights at Eton that would have horrified Etonians —boys with patches on the seats of their striped trousers and hobnails on their shoes. “These fantastic changes in Eton’s sartorial appearance, hitherto the very pattern of dignity, are the result of the coupon destitution which is seriously affecting all public schools. Large numbers of Etonians just starting the first term come equipped with their elder brothers’ discarded clothes, boots and toppers."
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 7
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116CHANGES AT ETON Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 7
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