University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-01
NEW WAIST LINE
FOR THE WOMEN

heel OF woe. The united drc->makers
announce IA new wai>tline for women :
gowns an announcement that brings
grief To those who are well supplied
with new dresses. but which vastly en-
hance> the delight OF those who have
THEN new dresses only in mind a new
that fills the cup full. 1t makes those
who Wear the Old style no matter how
Few nr costly the dress may be-. look
like thirty cents and for once it makes
tn" wearcr contcntcd with things as
n" wears them.
What troubles Us i the movable
wai>tlnc. I'm the old fashion days or
at any rate in the days when fashions
were fewer than they ale now tho
Xai>tlinr "f woman might fairly he
depended upon a. the hu""in" line.
Possibly huy"iny has now zone ont as
day it had it, ,hrrit-. Apparently those
" hu made those old-timr dresses or at
any rate those who wore them thought
-. too. The geography "f the waist
line il W"- worn then was studied
with care. at least by the .u-ii, ,:>trr-.
and even Il ncar--i9htcd man rarely
iIi>-cd catchin" his dearest at the proper
dc2rrr of latitude. But OF late the waist
line iia- wandered far away from the
hu""in" lin" - far away. indeed a. to
serve - Il warnn" aoain-; that mus
cuilr form "f attachment. The waist
climbcd. until in some extreme cases
il l,a> been demonstrated thhat nature
made Il mistake in giving arms ("
Woman ut all. brcau~r they placed
limit abnvc which the wai>tline could
not he carried. Ii She had been built
on III" model nf the Venus ni Mil" IL
that famous statue ha> come down /" u-
with only onc arm it would have
b. on I"--ibl" I" carry her wai-tiinr dia-
.pnlilE over 1T tti>t one ~lpulti'E. ana
although that would have "ivcn the
modern .Iuno~ and Mi"nnn- Il -lant>idri
appearance. no doubt most OF them
would hav" pronounced it chic. The
mode. it mist hr remembered. what
ever ii i. j. always beautiful.
Iiut the prcyailin" fashion "i wear
i'll" arms has put Il stop To the rising
wai>tlinr and accordingly We are now
Ia be- delighted with the low wai>tinc.
The human figure makes this change
the only nHr possible. and "f course
change i the Indispensable basis of Il
ncw style. How far down the new
style wai-tIinr i tn 90 W. cannot say.
but there are alarmin" rrlmor- a. tn it>
The necessities nf I"cnmotinn
may check it, fall: but ii women could
he set on rollers and rolled about it
woul;i proiribly find it, New equilibrium
somewhere ;,ctwrcn the knees and the .
ankles
How delightful w"man'~ dress i when /.
it strictly follows the m"Ir>. What I
surprises it has for the mind of man.
tGo prone To du today what WAS done
yesterday. simply becau>r what was .
lone Yesterday seemed e. ln all right /
Ii IL rule of life We're NIT. the ba>i /
% wnman'- dress the world would lose /
half it, novelty and diversion and en-
'hantmrnt. The "randlau"htcr> would .
lresS Il the .randmothrr~ did. and be-
ycn,I ll wr,t her the ..nrrican man
v.",ll >::n.iv have thing /" shak"
lm up. Now he has both the wrat her
md w"men'> dress. and between the
wo he is kept thoroughly wake. Va
'iou> devices have been suggested for
getting the United States out of the
'low-"oin" business processes induced
" our near-panic "f 1907. Some think
hat all those i'll" freight ears must be
.ot into motion. while others think that
We shall have tn wait for the new tariff
atr>. These are pro>aic remedies. Real
rlirf can only come from .ivin" mans
,.cntal apparatus Il jolt. and this T."
al,:ng wai,tli'" is pretty sure tn .lG.
I j. Il low pri'" tn pay for Il new pros
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