The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-08-29

uAuST "OFIu, or nSr careless mOLnef
in her criminal negligence in per-
hitting her daughter to do SO COR,
what is sadder still, dressing herself
in these styles, the right point of
attack is at the source of supply.
The Paris dressmaker has become a
degenerate, and as such it is time
THAT every decent American woman
should leave his designs unbought.
| Thousands of clean-minded and
clear-thinking American women are
already doing this, and the steady
trend toward American fashions for
American women, and the wonder
| fully rapid spread of the Idea
| throughout the country, are the first
iawakenings of American womanhood
| to the right thing to do. Nor is this
trend confined to the American wom-
an. The rebuke being administered
Ito Paris, which particularly this
summer her dressmakers have felt
| in a marked falling off in trade, is
worldwide. In Milan the dressmak-
ers are united in campaign for
Italian women; Spain is standing for
| Spanish fashions for Spanish wom-
| en-; in Berlin a dressmakers' union
has established a school for German
| fashions for German women; the
women of the Netherlands have alb
solutely refused to buy Paris
styles" for over a year, and now
comes London in registering an en-
phatic disapproval of the Paris
modes.
In the absolute loss OF its once
superb art in dress designing, Paris
is on the wane, and no one realizes
it more clearly than do her own
couturiers. So alarmed are these
dressmakers over the tide of revolt
in America that three of their lead
ers came over here during the past
Year ito see what was the matter"
The present outburst of indecent
dressing from Paris is the last gasp
of vanishing art. Paris, as fash
ion center, faces the setting sun.
And never was the time more pro-
pitious for the rising of the sun in
America in firm and complete es-
of American fashions
for American women. To say that
we cannot design our own women's
clothes is idle talk. We can. We
are rapidly accommodating the histor-
ical works in our libraries and the
paintings in our galleries to furnish
US with the basis for study the same
as did the Paris designers OF old.
And what we have not here, we can
send our designers to the Cluny
Museum in Paris and to the great
No race is more acknowledged skill
full in the art of adaptation than are
the Americans, and it is the exercise
of this art that is called for in dress
must, of necessity, be, and is, based
on historical costume. Paris has al
ways done this; always adapted;
never originated. Not a single orig
inal fashion, per Sc, has ever come
from Paris-it is always based on
the costume of other races and ma
tlons, either past or present.
But the American woman must
give the American designer encour-
agement. She must believe that her
own designers know her needs, her
temperament. her environment, bet
ter than do the Partisan designers,
most of whom have never set foot
on American soil. and are not only
ignorant of her but are contemptu-
Gus of her. No Latin race can ever
rightfully dress an Anglo-Saxon peo-1
pie; the temperament, the environ
ment. the climate, the needs-all
are different, and it is upon these
that proper costume rests and is