19 OCTOBER 1945, Page 4

Cambridge, by the way, is considerably worried about gowns. So

I understand, is Oxford. The trouble is that there aren't any, o at any rate not nearly enough. During the war the demand was small that the supply was equal to it. Now it is nothing like equal The announcement "no gowns" in tailors' windows takes its plac beside "no cigarettes" elsewhere. The question is, What is to b done about it? One possibility, of course, is to go without ; an that is, in fact, what will in part have to be done. Some freslune will get gowns and some won't, and the proctors will lose a goo part of their business if they can no longer drop on an undergraduat for being out after dark ungowned. jANUS.