Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — Ancient Egyptians Used Our Up-To-Date Styles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ancient Egyptians Used Our Up-To-Date Styles

SAN FRANCISCO, CAU—lnspired probably by the recent highly successful fashion show of 1912, in which was displayed the very latest progress of sartorial art, from double decked coiffures to diamond heeled slippers, Professor A. L. Kroeber, curator of the Museum of Anthropology at the affiliated colleges, arranged an exhibition of fashion in retrospect, with considerable emphasis on what they were wearing in Egypt and such places In the fall of 1912 B. C. The exhibition was thrown open to the public, and the weary husband who thinks his wife looks queer in her new French togs that cost none but husbands know how much should go out that way. With Kipling, he likely will say:— '*

“We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes that ranged India’s prehistoric day.” Professor Kroeber and his assistant, E. W. Gifford who gives the lecture, are of the opinion the change is less than slight, and they have proceeded with a delicate sense of irony to contrast some of the new styles with the old. There is a plaster cast of an Egyption lass wearing one of those gowns that begin to hobble right at the neck and never vary all the way down, except as nature asserts Itself. This effect is popular, also, in 1912. The women of Crete were wearing corsets about the same time —four thousand years ago. They have such a corset in the museum, and it looks like one of a pair of puttees worn by a stout cavalry officer. One whole glass case is labeled: — “Secrets of Beauty, Past and Present” Inside there is a quite modern “layout” g$ rouge, powder and mirror, and alongside ile the Implements with which some dusky Cleopatra touched herself up to win an Antony’s praise and admiration.