Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-22

Is a Warm Advocate of Greater
Simplicity in Dress.
the deciding votes for change. AS mat
ter of fact, radical, swift changes of fash
ion are not possible to-day in broad
sense, because women have shown more
and more disposition to act independents
ly. The narrow skirt, for instance ae
cording to all the laws" and manipula'
tions and customs of fashion, should now
be going out" but, on the contrary i
is stronger than ever much to the aggra'
walton of the supposed style masters, VINO
have tried to kill it and failed.
Two or three times year a great Style
Exposition should be held, to which admis
sion should be nominally free, and popu
lar votes for various kinds of designs be
in some way recorded. Simultaneous with
an exposition in New York, bulletins show
ing the various styles should be issued
and a definite effort made to secure the
consensus of opinion of women generally
on the style ideas throughout the coun
try.
If this exposition of styles in the Style
College were properly handled, 1t couIu
be made the object of intense popular IN
terest In the first place, not only lot
popularizing, but for trade reasons. All
the day of the opening of the exposition
This is done in Paris now among the
dressmakers, who have an understandings
as to the date and hour of the fashion
opening.
In the next place there should be popu'
lar lectures afforded to the general puDlc
on the subject of analyzing wOmans lndi
viduality in relation to dress; lectures Oh
color as applied to clothes, eXposltlono
showing how various articles OF CLONES
are made--including exhibitions by reform
and charitable organizations, showing inc
sweatshop conditions which exist When
women exact unreasonable style demahus
and change. And there should be 1ndlVlu'
ual consultation rooms where, for speclnC
fees, advice and counsel concerning dress
and kindred topics would be given to WON
en- The entire moral emphasis of the SIyle
College should be to encourage women u
study dress as relating to themselves a.
individuals rather than to any mysterious
edcts of any god of fashion.
There should be available at the Style
College a museum of historical COSTUMES
for study and comparison, and library W ~
the subject. If this was properly done "
would do a great deal to meet the oDJeO
tons of those who insist that Paris anu 10
backgrounds and cosmopolitan character
is the logical style centre. Such museum
and library work should be in charge u
woman such as Mrs. John W. AleHan'u lot
who is already an authority on the suDJeISs
and deeply interested in centrallzlng s'u0'
facilities on costume and style. IL.
The absurdly accidental nature OF StyIo
and fashion is beautifully illustrated IN , lno
history of "ratine." This goods, for aWn ni''
so popular, was originally produced slln lg.
by a negligent girl at a LOOM fn teAlos
mill, who didn't watch her machine ahI
got the stitches out of order. THOUSANDS -
yards of the mis-patterned goods were pr s
duced before the error was discovered aI ~
when the manufacturer saw it he was -
despair as to how he could realize a4 -
money on such an error. He was aDout "
sell the stuff as cheap, second-grade Ila-1 MAJ
rial, for some purpose or other, when sun as,
one with more psychology than ne pILy o
sessed put the idea into his mind that "a
stuff was not at all bad looking, ana ina IA
demand might be created for just TINS hlro
of goods. The Inexperienced goods W. 20
taken to France, "monkeyed' with Dy , Iot
American buyers (who know how 10
the demi-monde women of Paris to macy man
bluff at creating a fashiOn-for pr I,r;th
and the trick was seemingly done. w" Vii,
great acclaim the stuff was brought u "a "a
country as the newest Paris fashion -"
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