The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-06-28
TALL GIRLS IN FASHION.


We have read and heard and sung
so much of the tall girl of late, of her
stateliness and willowy charm, of her
grace and glory. that we have almost
forgotten those awful days when we
We're just turned fourteen and suffered
tortures of apprehension lest We should
grown up into the iong-necked, long
legged giantesses we felt ourselves to
be. Gibson has made the short woman
look like midget. Christie has ig-
nored her. Yet l never met a tall
woman who did not sigh because she
could never know the delight of look
ing up to man.
Let her take heart of courage. Dur
ing this past season there have been
four young women each six feet tall
introduced into smart society here in
Eastern America. And every one of
them has turned out not only beauty,
but social success. They tower above
their mammas and their elder brothers.
Yet they are the rage with the men,
not in spite of, but because of their
attractive height. For at last height
has come to be considered an essential
form Of beauty.
The tiny little thing who could walk
under a mans arm no longer laughs at
the gawky giantess beside ler. She
shrinks into insignificance and rails at
her own "short" -comings. Shoes,
hats and frocks are all fashioned with
an eye to the tall woman. The ideal
height of a woman among the ancient
Greeks were five feet and five inches.
Our ideal girl is five feet and eight
inches tall and is proportioned accord
ingly.
Take heart of grace then, We tower
ing damsels, for just now you are the
artistic fad. You are fashionable.
CURIOUS CHANGES IN FASHIONS.
In the windows of tailors one often
sees colored plates representing ladies
md gentlemen as they should be
dressed this season if they would be
in style. The ladies simper most
sweetly, the gentlemen are either state
" or bear themselves with careless ease
calculated to show how well their
clothes fit them. rhe Listener Won
ders if, In this age of collecting, any
body has made q collection of these
plates. They would constitute most
interesting gallery, say if they reached
back one hundred years. They would
be a pictorial representation of the
passing of fashion, history of cos
tune, without the letter-press that an
noys by detracting from the attention
that should be given to the pictures,
Think of q chronological succession OF
these plates by which, for instance,
you might know how your grandfather
looked when he dressed himself to 60
courting about the year 1920, or how
your father happened to look when he
was clerk in 1915. Then would come
the fashions Immediately before and
Immediately afteI the Civil War, show
ing the sharp changes that great con-
fict wrought in mems garments. That
was a change, indeed, which has had
an effect lasting to this day even. II
introduced the buttoned-up mode OF
wearing garments, an effect of trim
ness of setting up. The war taught
Americans to have their hair cut short
and the way in which men wear their
hair has a marked influence On gar
menture. The elaborately dressed hail
of the ante-bellum period necessitated
more flowing style of garment. The
coat of that period was long. as was
the hair, and it was, without being toe
loose, just loost enough. There were
wide trousers, and altogether the civil
ian was not taught that his proper sar
torlal caper was to look as much as
possible like an army officer in plain
clothes.-Boston Transcript.