Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1913 — IS CHARACTERISTIC OF AGE [ARTICLE]

IS CHARACTERISTIC OF AGE

Present-Day Dressing Makes tor Bodily Ease and Comfort Necessitated by Active Life. Present-day dressing is nothing If not characteristic of the age, and it is noticeable that everything makes for the bodily ease and freedom necessitated by the active life. We can hardly now understand the temperament of the woman who did not mind trailing about in a voluminous skirt with a wasp waist and a towering headdress. Even in days much nearer our own a woman’s body was just the internal machinery of a crinoline, her neck strapped up, and her whole head muffled with the ears and strings of a mighty poke bonnet. Now we have little hats that hardly ask for a single hatpin, the hairdressing that appears to have been done in a second, and the neck without a single support of any description to dig into one’s chin. Then what a position the washing glove has gained for itself! Once upon a time, unless It was for the country, the washing glove was not considered to be of much account; it was just a utilitarian thing fitted for urban use. But nowadays women demand that their gloves be tubbed as frequently as any other part of their apparel.