Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-06
Fashion and Common Sense.

If there is one locality nore than another
| where the voice Of common sense is never
! listened b. IL is that very extensive one
where fashion reigns. Who ever thinks OF
listening 10 the suggestions of the former
| when tie decree of the potentate has gone
| forth. Tight sleeves for the ladies, and
| tight combinations for the gentlemen is in
| the fashion Surprising the advocates of
| common sense protest, saying it is impossi-
| bic to move ores limbs in themi | cannot
| bend the knee before the portrait of my
| fGnlest hopes, says one; ! cannot get the
hands TO the back of my head, says another,
which IS far more important And fashion
replies, | cannot satisfy all taste Ny laws
are mostly made for the unrefiecting; if Won
reflect you never will lie satisfied. That
which you complain of now is only a tempo
rary Inconvenience; when | can no longer
tighten IN your limbs, sleeves and leggins
Will take such ample proportions that the
real sizn of an arm or leg Will lie a subject
for dIyinItion. Fashion has no respect Of
person; # high heels are introduced for the
tie bs2efit OF short people, low heels are
never intr"ducei at the same time for people
who are already taller than they care to le
The latter must wait their turn for the oppg-
ute fashion, and then unusually short per
sons have their boots made to order If they
wish TO reach up to the elbow of their supe.
riors in height, or submit 10 he looked upon
as dwarfs 10y tall people. If they prefer to
keep in the fashion
Fashion pTetends to have an eye for
beauty. Ii this be true, she enacts at least
that all her followers be modelled after the
same fashion. They must have heads and
faces Of a uniform size and shape, that the
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them all. and they must have a uniform tint
of complexion, that the color a Ia mode NAV
suit it. These who study fashion in dress at
the expen-e If their personal comfort are
surely wanting IN common SENSE, vet We
most Of US DO 50, and it seems a though We
like doing 50, since the Fashionable and I'M
comfortable article Is preferred TO the un-
fashionable AM c,mfortabl, on,, though it
may cost more than double the price of the
latter
Common sense suggests that in hot
weather clothing for both sexes should be
light in texture and color; but if fashion
dams that ladies' dresses be heavily
trimmed AMI if she refuse to give her con
sent to garments of summary nature being
introduced for gentlemen, no one has the
courage 10 pay attention 10 personal com
fort When ladies' skirts ara made So Gar-
row as b. be incunvenient for walking AMI
Liable t. assist the wrarer to an wkwarl
fall in descending from carriage, on when
they are wiitncd t. ludicrous width IL al
NIT Of unmanaEeable crinolinr, 81
burleneI with the useless trains t. be
dragged IN the streets or irollen on
IN the ball-room, who ever thinks of
refusing to obey the nuusen~icll mandatei
Even tlie most uhlura:c end bV giving in
believing they are NOR ridiculous t. hold
out, than to stand alone with common sense
Nothing, for inStguc'. could Indicate more
plainly the folly Of making long trained
dresses the fashion, than 10 >oe "A yea. or two
ago how the latter was necessarily punched
up in the most uugraccful manner, or the
wearer was compelled t. have one hand al
WAYS engaged with holding up the super
fluwIS ward or two of stun. making her IA
yarahly wish that artificial hand, had come
into fashion with the tram, to allow of her
u>nS her natural oneS in some more lrofita.
Die way.