Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — ADVANTAGES OF SHORT SKIRT [ARTICLE]

ADVANTAGES OF SHORT SKIRT

So Manifest That Those Who First Frowned on Them Have Been Brought to Admire.

Short dresses are becoming more popular every day. Those who first frowned on them now admire them and say that they are not only sensible but becoming as well as economical. With a short dress a woman has some liberty. She has her hands for free use. She may look round about her without the fear that while she is doing it somebody will put a foot through her two-dollar-a-yard lace and tramp off a couple of yards of it She may get out of a street car without looking back to see if she is clear behind and safe from being dragged along and perhaps maimed for life. She can defy rain and mud. She doesn’t have to go round a wisp of straw lest she take it up on her fringes. She can cross a street without stepping on her dress and falling down in the mud for the nearest policeman to pick her up and all the boys to laugh at and watch to see her do it next time. If she has a pretty foot she can showdt, and if she has a homely foot everybody knew it before, so there will be nothing lost there. The reign of the feather boa has begun again in real earnest. This year they are prettier and finer than ever. Many appear to be made of exceptionally fine feathers, loosely and artistically curled, and in softer and more delicate colorings than of x yore. A dark smoky gray and a very soft amethyst are among the most alluring of these, and mixtures of color are happily absent this year, for plain colors are generally more becoming so near the face than the mottled effects. The newest neck ruffles are neither long nor short, but just a happy me-

dium, the ends coming about half way down to the waist and culminating in thick choux of satin ribbon exactly matching the ruffle.