Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1914 — TRUTH ABOUT THE FASHIONS [ARTICLE]

TRUTH ABOUT THE FASHIONS

Writer of Authority Points Out That They Are Both Sensible and . / Beautiful. The editor of the Woman’s Home Companion makes the following general comment on fashions apropos of the new fashions: “When you see a woman with a skirt so tight she can hardly walk, with a hat trimmed with a long spike feather, with heels three inches high, with a layer of cosmetics on her face, you do not see a victim of fashion, but a victim of her own poor taste and ill-considered vanity. The fashions were never more beautiful —nor more sensible. The narrow skirt —but not too narrow—that clears the floor 1b Infinitely more sensible than the long, full skirt of the past; the high, tight collar with its attendant headaches has gone; the small bat, set well down on the head, is a real blessing; the very high heel is very bad style; cosmetics are not worn by women of good taste; fashion even frowns on false hair —a restful change after the heavy berated pompadour; and, best qf all, woman’s figure is no longer compressed into a series of ugly bulges, and the steel-stiffened corset of days past has become a flexible piece of webbing that supports but does not bind. When these sensible present-day fashions are exaggerated and distorted they become ugly and ridiculous, it is true.