The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-04

teach them how to dress. 1t seemed
too bad that they should wear such
funny looking clothes, and they must
have been uncomfortable, too"
1t is believed that the increasing
patriotism among women will also
tend to improve their Judgment in
these matters. The extremes of fash
ion which so many American women
of good social position have brought
over from Paris would never be worn
by a European woman in good stand
ing. American women go to Paris and
see beautiful women in carriages and
upon the street wearing new and ex-
IRENE garments. They do not know
that these beautiful women are of the
demi-monde, and that the ultra Pa
risian modiste design gowns for the
American and the demi- mondain
CHASING them together. He would not
hin of offering them to his own
women. American women are
gradually becoming aware of this, and
the dea Of! wearing clothes produced
IN THIS country appeals to them as a
patriotic duty. and most of these
American models are both beautiful
and sensible. The modern American
woman is demanding simpler, palmer
clothing which will not require so great
an outlay of her W time in planning,
or involve so great a strain upon the
less fortunate woman who pays her
the highest compliment-that of imi-
tation.
Within the past decade the demand
for American fashions for American
women has increased so enormously
that the business of manufacturing
patterns now represent mil
lions of dollars of investment. The
simplicity, suitability and beauty of
these have been developed so cleverly
that they are now popular in every
country. Patterns for origi-
American styles of garments are
now supplied with directions for their
use printed in every European Ian
guage. Fashions designed especially
for American women are now in
demand throughout the world
than those of any other one nation,
not even excepting the French.
Few persons will dispute that theI
modern fashions present many adj
vantages over those of a decade ago.
The day of tight lacing is over. The
best present models have a waist
measurement of from "a to 30 inches
of from Is to %, as was once
case. No well dressed woman now5
performs gratuitously the task Of
street sweeping, although only a few
years 6 trained dresses were seen
Llpon the street in great numbers. The
liz the hoop skirt, has long
relegated to oblivion, and ~exceptI
or the extremely narrow skirt. which
many women have never been guilty
Of wearing, the present costume upon
he street, with no extra fullness to
make it unnecessarily heavy and short
enough to clear the ground comfort
IDLY, seems almost to have reached
maximum of comfort and utility. :
10 the average woman the sheath
skirt. the transparent waist and SINH
ar novelties are merely passing &C.
'entricities which will not have any {
asting favor, although even their I
duration is deprecated in many {
It is especially unfortunate that {
hese extremes in styles. many of them
in garments designed for {
european women Of Dose morals,
'hould be worn by the American
woman who can least afford them. $
Fhe clothes which present least pro- J
from the cold and invite the I
advances of sensual men are most fire. I
luently worn by young girls who can
ess easily afford the risk of illness S
rom colds or are less able to repel in |
ult rather than by the women of s
means whose social position protects S
hem from unwelcome advances.
(TOmOrrow-The Modern Woman. t
I.-Women and Wages.) '