Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

had a heel like this and then underneath was a little thin cap on that so they we# very nice and
light. I happen to know that because I wore them often.
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Q. Well you also had vests, and gloves and spats and, .. 1
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A. I never had spats. Those were not in my day, but I can remember one tim ..and then when I
went to college, they got me tails.
Q. Did you have a top hat? 1
A. No I didn't, I had a Homburg. My mother gave me a Homburg and I had
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at a little later.
But I can remember going to, I think it was fourteen dances in one Christmas eason and I had
three stiff shirts. Now there was the really McCoy laundry. They really starch them They were
like a board and wing collars, and I liked those stiff ones, and you'd button thqm in the back I had
those three shirts and collars were at the laundry the whole time. Now all thol;e fourteen dances,
they weren't all, some of them were tea dances. Some of them were tea dances but most of them
at the country club.
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Q. And you had them in the park at the Pavilion.
A. The Pavilion. Yeah, they had dances the too.
Q. Well, there was pride in those days too.
A, Oh, the girls got dressed up in the evening in long dresses.
Q. Would you repeat that era in your life?
A. Sure.
Q. Would you like to be living that way today?
A. I'm perfectly happy in a dinner jacket and I have all of the ones that I ever: had. Still exist in
various sizes. I've got one right now. I got a new one, oh, a couple of years ago.
Q, So the Sangarno Club has just announced that they dress more casually.
A. That's for the hot weather.
Q. Only?
A. I think so.
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