Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1916 — INSIST ON FREQUENT CHANGE [ARTICLE]

INSIST ON FREQUENT CHANGE

Writer Asserts Women Are to Blame for the Variations of Styles in Clothes. Women want something new to wear every few months. The absolute truth of this statement is what puts the world of women against reformers. It Is easy to read and write reams of theories as to why women should noC indulge in the caprice Of new, clothes; and, with delightful ingenuousness, these dress reformers put the blame on the style-makers and shops. Ignoring the fundamental truth that the blame should be placed on the women. Those who are sincere and those 'who are insincere but want to be heard crying aloud tn the market places, do not go far enough Into the clothes question when pleading for dress reform. What normal woman wAuld want to be robbed of her privilege of seeing new clothes and buying them whenever it Is possible? What healthyminded woman would want to ge through life wearing the same gown, cut on the same lines and preserved, or copied, from season to season? Mary Garden, the opera singer, answered this whole question once in an Interview on the deck of a steamer, when she was sailing for Paris. It was at the height of the great hubbub concerning the question of American clothes only. The reporter called up from thn gangplank. “When, In your opinion, will American women wear American clothes only and show thulr patriotism?” “When they’re dead,” she called out over the rail. “They can’t protest against an American shroud.”—Exchange.