They're Putting Their Best Foot Forward

>o far as we know, no FuTbright Scholar has yet made a survey oaradise” from the point of view of the order of adoption of ?m garments and. accoutrements. rhere is a good deal of evidence, for example, that the pants do :ome first —if the number of little Islands boys wearing nothing oery short cotton singlets means anything. ’here is also some evidence that footwear is resisted more stubbornly most other items along the road to Western Civilization, n this latter connection there is an interesting report from r ican Samoa. “Japanese rubber thongs or ‘go-aheads’, are so lar that adult Samoans seldom walk barefooted any more”, a spondent reports. 7 he latest trade statistics from that territory also show that those were already shod in leather shoes before the ‘go-ahead’ appeared \e market have switched their allegiance to the latter. Imports ither footwear slumped from slo£o7 in 1957-58 to $8,807 last year.