Depression

What the college man will wear this year is a depressing subject to most clothing men. The usual junk, they expect. Any kind of pants and coat, no garters, few hats. For the correctly dressed student, if any, Brooks Brothers, Rogers Peet, and others, show brown slacks and gray coats, or vice versa. Nor are the slacks plain, by any means--brown herringbones, for instance, with a gray coat having a large green plaid and bellows pockets. White shoes, brown hat with black band.

Hat men no longer despair, having taught the boys at least to buy a hat and keep it on the floor for fancy weekends. To be sure, brown hats don't soil as fast as gray. The Paris Garter people are launching with a wry smile their million-dollar "Attack on the barbarous challenge of nudism."

Princeton still rates as the collegiate style center, with Harvard low water mark. "They're crazy up there," a department store man grumbled. "They even cut holes in their elbows and sew on leather patches." Life.