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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18389, 3 May 1923, Page 9

BETTER CLOTHES MEAN' BETTER HEALTH. "I have a theory," said Health Com- | missioner Copeland, of New York, ad- j dressing the National Association of Retail Clothiers recently, "that people are better in health when they are well dressed. A man who is well dressed has more self-respect, holds his head higher, walks more erectly, and inhales more freelv : all of which contributes to his health." A New York paper commented as follows : — Not only that, surely, doctor? If a. man is poorly dressed he feels, unless he is either too "rich or too tough-skinned to care which rarely happens, worried and apologetic. Every eye that lights on him is. he believes, a severely critical one. He feels himself written down a failure by those with whom he tries to do business. Through force of believing that other people think him a failure he often becomes a failure. There are few people strong enough to resist the opinion of the mass-mind. Many a man who felt- down and out in an old suit of clothes has been known to pull himself together on finding himself inside a new one. The world takes on a new aspect for him. His little ail- j ments do not trouble him so much, be- I cause he thinks less of them and of the past than of the future that is to be conquered. Dr. Cop-dand is quite right. And rieht I for reasons that go deeper than the mere improvement in a man's way of breathing, good as that is. He is right because of the mental and even, sometimes, moral fillip that good clothes give a man. It is a mistake, of course, to judge a man merely by his clothes, but it is a r greater mistake for any man to take too much advantage of that sage advice by neglecting the fair value of appearance. For over 35 years the Firm of Fowids has been conserving the good health and assisting the good appearance of the men of Auckland in the matter of their clothing requirement*—-(Adyt.)