Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — THE ENEMIES OF FASHION. [ARTICLE]

THE ENEMIES OF FASHION.

Between the artists and the political economists fashion has really a hard time of it. The artists declare that fashion i 3 a foe to their profession, and while they are worshiping the Winged Victory type of a figure the modern fashionable ideal is a pinched and padded creature that might, from an artistic standpoint, be called a Whaleboned Defeat. The political economists go even further and declare woman’s dress not only ugly but costly and impractical, and Professor Veblen in his "Theory of the Leisure Class’’ states: “The* high heel, the skirt, the impracticable bonnet, the corset, and the general disregard of the wearer’s comfort which is an obvious feature of all civilized women's apparel, are so many items of evidence to the effect that in the modern civilized scheme of life the woman is still in theory the economic dependent of the man—that perhaps in a highly idealized sense she still is the man’s chattel.’’