BRIGHTER CLOTHES
APPEAL FOR COLOUR YORK (England), July 25. A suggestion that we should revert to the coloured clothing of mediaeval times was made by Alderman J. B. Mowell, governor of the Merchant Adventurers’ Company, the oldest gmkl in the country, at the court of York Merchant Taylors’ Company, to-day i: I wish,” lur declared, “that the Master of the Merchant Taylors would wear his red robe in his business house. Why should such bright clothes be re served for fox hunters, lord mayors, and governors of guilds? ” The Merchant Taylors’ Company is one of the three surviving guilds of mediaeval York. To-day’s sendee has been observed for nearly 500 years.
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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111BRIGHTER CLOTHES Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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