Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — THE FASHION OF 1918 [ARTICLE]

THE FASHION OF 1918

By ISOBEL FIELD.

of the Vigilantes. Her hat was plainly old fashioned, and the ribbon that adorned it had evidently been cleaned and pressed ’with a hot iron; her tailor-made suit, though well fitting, Was faded in color and cut in the mode of year before last; but she walked down Fifth avenue among the best-dressed women in the world with a swing of the skirts and a noble condescension of glance that attracted my attention. I watched her with interest, sauntering a little ahead and stopping at shop windows to study her as she passed. • Was she a great painter, authoress or poet puffed up with her well-deserv-ed fame? No, her face was not familiar, as, in these days of newspaper photography it would be were she of the elect. She was neither young nor strikingly beautiful, yet why the grand manner as of one above the common herd? ‘ • Suddenly she paused beside me to cast an indifferent glance at a dazzling array of diamonds in a shop window and then I discovered the secret of her proud bearing. What need had she of fine clothes or feathers in her hat? She was dressed in the height of the fashion of 1918. On the breast of her shabby jacket she wore a little service bar and on that bar were three blue stars r