ETON DRESS REVOLT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 804, 26 October 1929, Page 11

ETON DRESS REVOLT

ATTACK ON TOP-HATS AND TAIL COATS ABOLITION ADVOCATED Australian and X.Z. Press Association Reed. 3.20 p.m. LONDON, Friday. Every Australian visitor who has stared with astonishment, at the tailcoated and top-hatted Etonians will be interested to know that the college’s dress tradition is at present being attacked, not without, but actually within, the sacred walls. An old Etonian declares that the famous dress is ridiculous, breeding a race of little dudes. He advocates its all-round abolition. Dr. E. Graham Little, member of the House of Commons for London University, joins the revolt, and sweeps away the whole tradition with [ the following suggestions for EtonI ians:—Shorts, collarless open jersey, | stockings to the knees, pliable shoes, no hats.

“It is absurd,” he says, **to make little boys look like men. Let them remain boys as long as possible.” The editor of the college journal is emphatic that the present revolt will be squelched, as others have been before. “There is always an outcry about the topper,” he writes, “but it is still the best public-school uniform. The boys themselves won’t give in.”