Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1920 — What's the Use? [ARTICLE]

What's the Use?

Cortlandt Bleecker, the New York clubman, sale? at the Rita: “I have just come from a spring display of new gowns. The gowns were superb—daring, you know, but superb. The mannequins who wore them were also superb—lovely girls of eighteen or nineteen summers. But the women who bought those superb, those daring gowns—” Mr. Bleecker made a gesture of hopelessness and disgust. “Pshaw, what’s the use,” he said, “of old hens wearing chic clothes?”