Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — SELECT THE BEST FASHIONS [ARTICLE]

SELECT THE BEST FASHIONS

la These Days of Conflicting Styles Woman Need Not Be a Martyr. It behooves every woman to take a day off and study the conflicting fashions that beset one on every side. One can bring chaos to order if the mind and judgment is strong and concentration is all that the moralists tell us it is; a virtue that can make a barefoot boy into the multimillionaire. (You know the style of the average interview with the plutocrat) If you find fault with the full skirt you are within the law. It is an ugly fashion, full of ways that are vain and tricks that are dark, as someone sang of a race inferior to our own. If it is long, it has depths of awkwardness that none can dive into and remedy. If it is ultra short none but the young and the slim with the well-turned ankle and foot can wear it The fashion for the high-heeled shoe has already been brought info being by adoption of this abbreviated skirt and the woman who is too tall or too sensible to teeter along on a pair of curved stilts on the cobble Sterna of the public thoroughfares is aware that this swirling skirt is not for her;