Etiquette and Scottish University Men

A young man in his “strawbasher” (or straw boater hat), with his sweetheart at university. — “On Sept. 15, be the weather ever so bleak, the streets are full of what the small boy knows as ‘strawbashers.’”

Scottish Students’ Dress

The Scottish university student has a code of etiquette in clothes as strict as that of Eton or of Harrow. And into it the straw hat enters. On Sept. 15, be the weather ever so bleak, the streets are full of what the small boy knows as “strawbashers.” 

On the 16th you will find never a one — on a student’s head, that is. As for the medical student, he seldom wears a straw hat at all, or anything in its place. It is his pride to go bareheaded, as it Is to wear a fancy waistcoat and turned up trouser ends. The arts and divinity men sedately avoid these last three fashions.—London Chronicle, 1910

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