Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — FASHION: WORLD [ARTICLE]

FASHION: WORLD

Styles Afford Subject of Interest to AH People. Always Something New Regarding Clothing Designed for Women and Their Beautification. It is sometimes said that fashions ire talked about so much that nothing new can be said of them, but when one remembers the important part they play in all civilized countries, both from a commercial and an artistic standpoint, observes , a fashion writer. It would seem to be a subject which touches every one In some way and In which all people are more or less concerned. Some may claim that it is a frivolous topic and that they are Indifferent to it, but if they recall what*has been said, that it affects financially more than half of th 6 world’s workers, md that the remainder of society are nterested In clothes because they wear them. It would seem to involve In some way every civilized person md be a subject about which there Is 'constantly something new, however fieverly written the articles concerning them may be that have appeared from time immemorial. The industrial value of clothes begins way back in the growing of the wool, the cotton, the flax, mohair, muljerry trees, the getting of skins and mining of precious stones and metals. From there it passes through the various processes of refining, polishfig, manufacturing, weaving and merchandising until finally it reaches the ase for which it is destined-clothing for all people of the civilized countries. Education, culture, necessities and luxuries all show the influence of clothes as a commercial factor, and the more clearly We realize this the more interest shall we have in the sub|ect and the more clearly shall we see. bow necessary and how attractive the subject really is in its many varying phases. Needlewomen of the faraway islands as the sea, bending patiently over their lace to'adorn the gown of the society queen, or the drawn work to bedeck the table of the high oflacial of the nation; the 3ilk growers of the orient or the cotton growers of the South, many of them seeing but the, one gain, financial —all contribute to. the great commercial factor which some designate “frivolous” and which society calls “fashion.”