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NZ Truth, Issue 180, 28 November 1908, Page 5

What is the correct clobber for a ploughman to. wear whilst at work ? Is evening dress the thing, or is Hodge required by Fashion to don a frock coat and stove-pipe before yoking up his team ? Or would bathing trunks meet ; the demands of professional etiquette ? This point ' of palpitating interest— which jwe have never seen raised m that autocratic satorial authority, "The Tailor and Cutter"— popped np m Dunedin Police Court on. Saturday. Sub-Inspector Norwood was cross-examining a ploughman, party m a maintenance case, as to , his. means, and sought- to show that the simple son of toil was not so desolately poverty-stricken as he tried to make out. "But I must buy clothes, you know," protested. Piers. "Clothes ! It doesn't cost a lot to dress for ploughing," retorted the Sub., scornfully. "Well, but," presibted the rustic, "I can't go naked, you know." "Oh l if you tied a mat round your middle that would answer the purpose, '* declared Norwood, hieezily. Perhaps it would, but tho ploughman didn't seem m danger of taking the tip. It's a bit drau.M,y <!,.\vn these parts. And yet he would only be following Scripture precedent. No doubt Adam used to plough— we know he "delved" "while Eve span"— and it's "a sure thing that the old covey didn't w^ar moleskins and hob-nailed boots m the Garden. We can't say whether Eve wore P.D.s and suspender*, howtvw.