Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — ILLINOIS SOCIETY FLAYS STYLES OF WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS SOCIETY FLAYS STYLES OF WOMEN.

Urbana, 111., June 13.—“ Why should any woman desire to show her dress shields and underwear to the public?” “Waists so thin that a woman must shave to wear them are not decent.” “We cannot escape from clothes, but we may escape from fashion.” These and a variety of kindred remarks are included in a circular on fashion—its use and abuse—which has been put out by the Home - Economics department of the University of Illinois. The '’'author is Lena Hope. The circular also reveals one reason why many girls are bowlegged when it says: “Many girls appear bowlegged because the leg, which should be at right angles to the foot, is obliged to assume a slant position because of the stilted heel. , “Evening dresses described in our fashion magazine as not having much above the waist and very little below,” the circular says, “are not rare. Skirts that are so tight they reveal rather than conceal the figure have been worn recently and are about to return. “Women should, however, not, according to the circular, be criticised for spending too much thought on the dress, but should give more intelligent thought to the problem. If is not a national costume that is needed so much as a fine national taste. “Standardized dress,”, the pamphlet declared, “will never be popular. Women are too fond of indulging their taste for pretty things.” The parting shot at fashion is taken as an indictment of the injury caused to women’/ health by idiosyncrasies of dress, but it is asserted: “Fashion knows no pain.”