Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-11-07

less YOU are brave enough to laugh
mockingly at Dame Fashion. snap your
fingers in her face. and run the
gauntlet between all the bean poles
you meet on the street this fail rnor
with asbestos sensibilities to protect
you from their burning criticisms, you
priestess Of f~ashion-you must become
a tub OF a bean pole. Which will you
be? 1T all depends upon the amount
of a%voirdupois that nature gave you
on the day she took up her hui
man clay and moulded you ac-
cording to her whim. If she gave
you enough of the clay to make you
suffer on a hot day you'll be a tub be-
fore fall gives way to winter. but If
you've got just enough of the clay to
make YOU tall and willowy you'll be
one of the animate bean poles that
Will move along the streets his fall
like lamp posts set in motion.
You must be one or the other. a tub
or a bean pole-which will you be-
High Priestess Has Given the Word
Elizabeth A. c. White. arbiter of
fashions. head of the Dressmakers'
Protective association. has given the
word. and ii is she who used the UNI
gallant expressions tub" and bean
pole" o must bow meekly to the
VI tnt IlISll Ii ItSltSS OF lnt uIpSS-
makers. If you nave hips. prepare to
shed them now. 1t doesn't matter a bit
what kind o. hips you have been wear
inS-au natural or otherwise-they sim
ply must go. Miss White says so and
that settles it. Your wv must hang
straight down from the shoulders like
frock coats hung over the stiff arms of
a metal coat hanger. There must be
no hips at all-not even the suggestion
IF a curve at the waist.
Curves have been tabooed by Miss
White and by all her followers. Straigh,
ines are the thing now straight. Sc
vere. austere. graceless. merciless
lines. You must look like the letter Il"
without youl hat and like the letter IT,
with 1t on. and your profile must look
like a letter Il" upside down, If you are
slender and willowy. II you are
built on a more substantial plan from
the ground up YOU will look like the let
ter ~. no matter which way you
stand. The horizontal line Of this
graceful letter Will represent your waist
line and the two vertical and parallel
lines VIII present an accurate diagram
of your figure.
Every Woman Must Be an ~" or ~"
The new style is a great thing for
the women who look thai way any
how. but it will come as a terrible blow
To those n delight in dressing in
r'Ni " ~ ao " d'1fIltudlt lIltII
charming curves. the grace of their
lovely figures. and the bewitching
r~oundness that the artists rave over
and the novelists always talk about
IN their books. If Miss White and her
thousands of disciples have their way.
there Will be only two ltinds of women
seen on the streets this fall. the rs
and the HIS the bean poles and the
tubs.
But already dissenting voices have
been heard. Those who draw the fash
ion pictures for the fashion maya
zines and those who edit the fashion
departments OF the same magazines.
and those who don pay any atten-
zion to the fashion plates they find
in the magazines. but go right on COM
losing their own creations are making
a terrible wall. But in spite of their
wailing they have had To admit thai
the tub a,.d ale bean pole women are
on the way. that IL sounds like the
exit bell for the kangaroo figures and
the wasp figures and the Venus de
Milo figures. and the entrant bell OF
the straight up and down figures.
which they cry desparingly can't be
rai!ed" igtifsas"at aR:- ~--.--~.
Fashion Artists Are Badly clustered
To BE- on the safe side nearly every
fashion magazine for October publishes
a few pictures OF the bean pole and
the tub gowns with the ominous warn
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