The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
WOMEN'S TROUSERS WELCOME AS VOTES
 TO SUFF LEADERS
Miss Alberta Hill Says Pants Only Sensible Costume for Work
 and Play

New York, July 1.-The news thai the women campers at Lake Hopat- cong have forsaken skirts for khaki trousers has aroused so much com zaent tzz+ a consultation of some of the women who have devoted some attentl1n to the development of wona- enis clothes seemed timely
 T believe that a modified form of trenBers 1s the only sensible costume for certain sorts Of work and play ma4G Miss Alberta Hill one of the pr@tfsest Of the younger suffragists. We hs<R already accepted them for horseback r9d4ng-~lay not for tennis !?
 Playing in the modern tight skirt ie an mpaSEibliity without a slit and certainly trousers are far less in decent I grew up in Japan, where a girls kfznono opens at her feet as she walks. but I object to this obvious, unnecessary slit that -eonfronts you every tfEae you try to buy a skirt.
 There is nothing essentially objec- tfunzbzR about loose trousers When # was the fashion for little girls to wear pa-ta7ettes everyone thought them perfectly modest If women once FDt used to wearing trousers they would feel the same way about them It se ridiculous to say that women vrould look masculine in them, for the chfef charm of a riding suit is that a woman locks so wholly feminine in
 
 T am living uP to my belief in tr0ufers, for I am having a sort of Yana-Tama suit with long bloomers made to wear in my garden. I'm sure I shall hate my ordinary clothes after I've worn i4 for while Of course, I shall wear Hat soled shoes with it. No one who hasn't tried them knows how comfortable they are, but most people have Tennis has emancipated US that far at least
 Mrs. Mary Ware De1nel, secretary of the national suffrage organization, could make all her own clothes if she had time and as it is she is always carefully dressed and takes a keen in- terset in clothes.
 Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt was quoted on her return from her trip around the world as saying that the trousers and coat of the Chinese wom- an might well be adopted by western sistens. bat I don't agree" said Mrs. Dennet yesterday- The Chinese wom- ans costume. may be loose and com foFtable but it Is structural1y ugly It's only beauty is in the color and tex ture af it's materials.
 ~What is the use of taking some thing ugly to work from when we have the lovely boys costumes Of the seventeenth century, Italy and France The doub1et would have to be length ened. but it has wonderful possibili- ties.
 Tights are going to play a much more important part in the clothing of both men and women than they have done in the past They are the only thing that could be worn under a narrow one-piece tunic dress, but they are enough. The tight skirts have taught us that.
 Where tights have feet even stock agE are unnecessary We have adapt cd them in union suits and we are learning that they are the best sub stituts for the next layer.
 Women are getting tired of having their fashions dictated to them py lot of men who can scarcely speak the English language They know nothing about the history of dress Their only idea is to force change of fashions in order to get business. The more startling the fashions are the more quickly they go out of style and the more clothes people have to buy.
 ''But very intelligent class of wom- en is beginning to buy ready made clothes through lack of time rather than Of money, and they are going to do some dictating themselves
 They are asking that fashions be