Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — Women Should Wear Clothing That Is Farthest Removed From Masculine [ARTICLE]

Women Should Wear Clothing That Is Farthest Removed From Masculine

By MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS,

American Novelist

Gould anything be more “awful’’ than the hardness and thickness and uncompromising ugliness of this military model ? This is a day when - every girl is dreaming over a khaki coat and silver bars? Let women adopt whatever is farthest from the masculine in the way of clothes. No matter how thin the frocks or how “lo and behold” they are in front or “vee de Boheme” in back, no matter how short the skirts and how sleeveless the bodices, give us beauty and femininity—or look for a perishing world! Women are of three types: No. 1, the maternal; No. 2, the intellectually creative; No. 3, the weak and selfish. The larger'proportion of women are in the first group. They are the ones who wear the fluffs and frills and all the pretties that attract men. They want to attract men. They should want to attract men. And they do attract men, And men marry them. And take care of theb. And are happy with them. The second sort of women substitute the creations of their brains for the creation of families. They are usually the tailor-made, shirfcwaisted, sailor-hatted girls. They sometimes marry, but they rarely have children, or worth-while children. As a rule the world takes care of them, and fame is their reward. The third type—the weak, selfish —are the ones oftenest criticized by reformers. They are either sophisticated enough to take earn of themaelves (in the ballroom or elsewhere) or are the “weak sisters” who am i the inevitable mistakes of nature. . , ' i; .