Query: "blue laws"

[Laurence Horn]

>At 3/21/2006 03:58 PM, you wrote:
>>Said laws later reinterpreted to dictate the wearing of Eli blue at Yale.
>>
>>larry
>
>Amusing.  Yet Yale "antedates" the Conn. blue laws; was Eli blue
>chosen in the 1780's or later?  Or is this just a New Haven urban
>legend?  Can you give me a source?
>
Nope.  I just made it up, so I doubt there's a source.  Of course it
could be true independently.

larry

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