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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23953, 31 October 1939, Page 10

The boys of Eton College are to lay aside their top hats “ for the duration.” The reason is that either top hats or gas masks may be worn, but not the two together—and the masks have won. The universal badge of the citizen of to-day has been preferred to an increasingly distinctive headdress. And so Etonians have joined the hatless brigade—at a time when at least one London hatter, under the heading “ Personal A.R.P.,” is advising the wearing of a hat, especially a bowler, as a protection against falling glass and debris. “At present,” a representative of The Times was assured, “they are wearing nothing on their heads, and are quite happy about it, though headgear will probably be necessary when the colder weather comes. But a coloured house cap would not go well with a tail coat.”