Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-04
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will soon discard .feE something calling
for. an equal tax upon her slender re-
sources The same money invested in
good, durable garments would yield SO
much greater physical comfort il they
only had the fashionable appearance
necessary to her happiness.
Great industries are built upon the imi-
tatlons OF: eiegancies which the perverted
taste OF many American women now
seems to demand. Brocaded velvets which
might cost hundreds of dollars from the
Silk looms of Europe, are being produced
in the New England cotton mills for the
smallest fraction of the cost of the origi-
nails All kinds Of jewels are now man
ufactured in cheap glass. while the man
ufacture of imitation laces has grown
into an industry representing millions of
dollars annually in this country These
limitations are never durable Their fire.
quent renewal. has been the undoing of
many working girls, who will put all they
can earn or obtain credit for into open
work lingerie at 50 cents a set. willow
plumes at $19S, imitation silk dresses
at SAD and yet always be in need of
the warm. comfortable clothing their
health demands.
Thinking women all over the country
are agreeing that better dress standards
for women must
Better STANDARDS be y secured, and
Must BE Secured. shall he broueht
about is not yet apparent To the minds
of many people it is purely matter of
education. 1t is related of Miss Martha
Berry, who has devoted her life to the
education Of the neglected mountain girls
in the south. that she was bitterly dis
couraged over what she feared would be
10 offoct of eli of
dressed women to her school. She had
endeavored to give her girls high ideals
of the neatness and suitability Of dress
and the beauty and simplicity of we'll
chosen clothing. The visitors were at
tired in hobble skirts, low-necked waists
of semi-transparent material and mon
strous hats accumulated in some instances
by tightly tied wells Yet their clothing
was costly and in keeping with the cur
rent fashion. To her great relief one of
the older girls said to her after the visit,
oh, Miss Berry, we girls felt that it
was too bad that those ladies who were
here this morning did not have you to
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 increasin ma
triotism among women will also tend to
improve their judgment In these matters
The extremes of fashion which SO many
American women of good social position
have brought over from Paris would
never be worn by a European woman in
good standing. American women go to
Paris and see beautiful women in car
riages and upon the street wearing new
and extreme garments. They do not
know that these beautiful women are of
the demimonde and that the ultra Par
isan modiste designs gowns for the
American and the demi-niondaine, class
ing them together. He would not think
of offering them to his own country
women. American women are gradually
becoming aware of this and the idea 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 own time in plan
ming. or involve SO great strain upon
the less fortunate woman who pays her
the highest comphment-that OF imita-
ton. {.
Within the past decade the demand for
American fashions for American women
has in
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