The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-06

Cfittenton MltsiUi III 'HS S'S'
cares for hundreds OF unfortunate
women very year.
WOMEN DRESS As MEN DICTATE
eY THEIR PREFERENCE.
..I believe that ~ men did not Like the
.1ec, Of immodes. dress women would
not adopt It." declares the social worker.
..The woman who wears rouge ana
Aos,ble sk,rts 10 usually the woman most
.een in the company Of men. although
ehe may be perfectly virtuous. But she
fhsS q fine opportunitV to ma out Just
what sartoriai effects best please the
other sex, and II her ultra-fashionapie
costumes were not generally appreca-
a.ed she would be quick to abandon
them.
"Thl, matter Of woman's dress 10 b.
coming 4 tremendous problem. Ia I'M
portance In the world OF the average
woman 10 simply appalling. Her NE
,eems 10 revolve around her WARDROBE.
And in SO many. many cases she mas
given I'D what should BE- 1earer to her
than life, her honor. TO the cause OF
dress. OF course. . great deal OF our
work IL done In connection with the
Night Court. and the common plea OF
the young girls brought In there H.
I wanted more pretty clothes"
Not long ago We had . case OF two
little girls, one fourteen and one six
teen, who came down from up the state
10 see New York. They were horribly
treated on the boat. but they were
nothing but ignorant. innocent children.
Yet one OF them, the youngest. came
into court wearing the most outlandish
garment two narrow widths OF calico
sewed together in N sort OF skirt. She
had made II, herself. she told me. just
In preparation for her visit 10 the
metropolis. because she felt that she
couldn't appear without q hobble skirt.
III the society women would only
adopt simpler and less suggestive cos
TUNES! They are the criterla; they set
The standards for all those lower down
in the scale--thc stenogra piers. the
telephone operators. the manlcurists,
even the factory workers and domestic
servants. Tho exclusive styles are imi-
tated more and more crudely and bold
iy. as you so lower In the scale. but
the nucleus OF fantastic fashion re-
mains. Hundreds OF poor girls strain
every nerve to procure y shoddy imita-
ton OF the toilettes they see on Fifth
AhNs b'hs thoHociNVs PVpNT
food and housing. and II they can't get
the money any other way. they get It
IN IA bad way.
i do think neil or rather many men.
admire immodest feminine dress. And
yet ] know many young girls, while
they may not change u good man into u
'masher, manage TO draw to them
selves the attention OF all the Washers
already existing in the locality. A man
with pretty bad reputation once said
to me. You don't hear many storie;
OF good girls being accosted by mer
on the street. do you? You don't read
much IN the papers OF such men beins
arrested on the complaint OF girlsy
why. no. ] answered. or course yol
don't he added. a man knows pretty
weli tire kind OF girl he can approach
He looks her over flrst. from her hair
ribbon TO her shoe-bucltle!
MOTHER SHOULD SEE THAT
DAUGHTERS DRESS PROPERLY.
'If only the mothers would rsaliz,
that every time their young daughter,
appear on the street In suggestive cos
.tumes. men are going 10 look then
over and size them up accordingly
A,ots OF little girls OF fifteen and six
vszn are approached by men who woulS
'iever notice them II they were suitabl,
dressed. They make informal &C
quainIances and 60 TO moving pictur,
shows and then to the beach. and BE-
fore taey know II they are In dreauIu
tIDuble
What ! can't understand, and neve
could Is why respectable women. oil,
enough TO know better. win rig them
selves up like women OF the street
WIZ DO hey wear tho trademark, whei
tnsy haven't the trader II seems 30 m,
That II could only take them to tn,
Ni@ht court and show them at clos,
range the poor creatures they are copy
ing. taeyd go home and wash the pain
IRON their faces and burn their hobbl,
thris Why. / wouldn't be hired ;,
wear even . willow plume for thre,
blocks I've seen too many Of them.
'Slpposing Il is as Il certainly seems
and inmodest dress forms an attra ctAor
In the eyes OF some men How can
seif-respectinx woman want that typ,
or man to like herr How can she wan
HIM even 20 notice her. muen tess ev.nc,
admiration? II she stops to think, Oh,
will realize that the qualities he 10 as.
crystns 10 her are not noble or nne OF
IN any way worthy. In faQt. II she knsw
~ Whist 10 N h. uaaaa tSgardsnE ~