Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-03-28
THE FASHIONABLE WALK.
Approved Hygenic Gait, Modified by a
Judicious Respect for
Fashion.

Cecilia contends that a fresh veil, well
put ON, adds ten dollars to girls ap,
pearance, while a proper walk stands for
fifty dollars at least. When questioned
as to what is Il proper walk, She explains
it as the approved hygieic gait and
carriage modified 10y a judcious respect
for fashion" At first glance this seems
very simple way to enhance ones ap-
pearance at a saving Of sixty dollars.
The fresh veil is within anyone's reach,
and as to the hygienic laws of the proper
walk, we have all heard until we could
reclte in our sleep the rules about the
ball Of the foot and the straight line
dropped from the chin. But it is the
fashionable modification that rs the trick
or the art whereby Cecilia derives
her expensive air: the tying Of the veil
that marks her above the crowd.
In neither veil nor walk is Cccelin ever
extreme. Jndiciously fashionable, she
stipulates; the 'judicious" marking her
claim to breeding. When pompadours
are ordered to the forehead, Ceccia's
dr0Ops forward with the rest; hut you
viii never see il Jumping into one eye;
aud there is always the little individual
touch Of Cecelia in its arrangement, as
though the fashion had been adapted to
her rather than she TO the fashion She
took up athletics when others did. but
her walk did not degenerate into a slop-
ing stride; II merely became stronger and
lreer, hctraying her athletic but not OBJ
noXiously advertising the fact. She was
the nice girl who played gof-not the
golf girl.
The golf walk is still abroad IN the
land: it * challenge, declaration Of
rights, a climax Of assertiveness II is
not content merely To indorse those ex-
ccllent innovations the short skirt and
the extension sOle~~it rubs them into the
point Of r0Hsing antagonism 1t is
marked by q loosely swinging arm a
slump forward from the hip at every
stride, and a slant of the body from the
waist as though the shoulders were try
ing 10 get ahead OF the feet II has
neither grace nor dignity, nor even that
indeiiuable attraction yulgarly known az
style Speed and ConRpcuousness seem
10 be its only reasons for existing.
This fashion Of walk came close on
tho heels Of one that was its extreme op.
poslte Indeed, the two were almost
contemporary, and you might have
found both in the same block any day
for many months. This was fluffy,
fusey delicate little feminine pattcr that
should have been named the fr1fi- fr0g
The skirts as many aud as fyillcd is pos
>ihic, were gathered up in front with
both helpless little hands, the body
dropping elenderly forward, the iusleps
wen revealed. 80 that the owner seemed
peTp"tua'ly about 90 venture over % mud
dr crossing u q French picture st was
.Hc revolt 0f the eternal feminine from
lDu- course of UcW woman. the saving
spring backward it always makes when
apparently on the verge of common
srn~s l0u may convince q woman that
the short skirt and the uncomprcss ed
waist are the first law Of sanity: that
curling tongs and face powder work
against the true, innate human beauty,
that little affrctgti0ns and tricks Of eyes
are behind the times In this age Of
straightforward, fine, sensible ideals
IOu can lead her 10 consent To all this
NTH high enthusiasm and 10 thank the
gods that she was born in this enlight-
ened age And then two days later you
will see her vigorously straightforward.
curled and powdered displaying all the