HEARSAY. Asked the other day to explain what exactly she meant by “a really welldressed man,” I heard n lovely woman reply. “'Well, a man whose clothes one remembers when lie Inis gone, but does not notice when he is there.” Pretty good, I thought, but that’s just wliat Blackmore style means. The standard set by the House of Blackmore is correct, yet individual, and costs no more.* The custom of giving presents to friends ami relatives on New Year's Day was popular in England for hundreds of years. It dated from the time of the Roman occupation. When metal pins were invented, in the sixteenth century, they were a favourite gift to women. Money given lor their purchase was known ns “pin-money”—a phrase which lias remmued with us.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 119, 4 May 1934, Page 11
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