Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-10-15
Nothing Pretty or Graceful About
New Idea Which Is Affected
in Paris.
MAY BE ONLY PASSING FAD
Ts &c DepIored Because Trend Of
Seasons Costumes Has Been All
for Beauty and Graee-Ne"-
est Models Show Abso-
Iutely Natural Lines.

from the fashions seen at Biarritz,
writes Claude Cherys in the Washing
ton Post. co not mean the fash
ions displayed on the Grande PLACE
or the Casino, but those shown prl-
yately in the ateliers of the great
Paris dressmakers who have branch
establishments at this particular sea
side resort.
From the point of view of dress
Biarritz in the month of september
resembles Monte Carlo in the month
Of February. At both these fashion
centers the newest and most exclu-
sive models are shown before they
are shown in Paris, and the reason
Is not difficult to find. The members
of the court circles of Spain all meet
at Biarritz and San Sebastian IN the
months of August and September
They return to Madrid early IN octo-
her. and they then take back with
them a generous supply of dresses
wraps. etc. for the winter season
Now. the pretty Spanish woman is
devoted to dress, and she demands
everything of the latest and newest.
More than this, she is eclectic in her
taste. even though she sometimes IN
clines toward brilliant colors and gor-
geous details.
She is, as a rule, very rich; she IS
always ready to pay well for that
which is really original and becom-
ing. For all these reasons. the Span
ish beauties are beloved by the auto
Gratis of the Rue de la Paix.
Protest Called For.
have been making a series of Wis
It's to the notable Partisan dressmak-
ers and tailors who have branch ate
Tiers in Biarritz. l have been careful
lv studying the novelties displayed by
each one, and have come to the con-
clusion that it is necessary to enter
early in the fall and winter seasons,
word OF strong protest. We have
arrived at a memorable moment IN
the history of dress. We have quiet
Nv. almost unconsciously. reached a
period in which the female form di-
vine is displayed to perfection be
cause it is displayed gracefully ana
naturally.
All through the summer our WON"
en- of fashion have been wearing trl-
cot corsets and swathed centuries
which permitted the waist to assume
perfectly normal outline. And the
corsages, as well as the cleverly drap-
ed skirts which have been adopted by
the more exclusive Parisiennes, have
been eminently graceful and even
classic. Notwithstanding all the pro
tests which have been called up by
foolish women who take delight in
attracting unpleasant attention and
who bear no real relationship with
women of fashion in the right sense
of the words, we have arrived at
peried in the history of dress which
is very nearly ideal.
Atrocious Fashion.
Never have women looked prettier
nor more graceful than this year.
Never have their dresses and nantes
more clearly expressed the feminine
not which is so entirely desirable.
All was well in the world of dress,
and it is distressing to find that GER
tain Partisan dressmakers are giving
countenance to a fashion which can
only be described as an atrocity.
am now alluding to the growing
tendency in Paris in certain circles
to alter the outline If the figure be-
low the waist; to give it that pc
culiar and most unsightly curve out
ward which was adopted last summer
by one or two Partisan actresses and
which became a sort of fashion.
Last summer it was rather the
thing in some circles to stand in a
loose, dislocated pose, to throw out
the stomach-for l am obliged TO use
the real woodland to throw in the
back. 1t was absurd, but as a pass
ing fad people laughed good-natured-
ly at it. But this autumn it is unfor-
tunately true that some of our lead
ing Partisan dressmakers are trying,
and trying hard, to make this horri-
HE and ridiculous outward curve a
permanent fashion. They are even
going so far as to pad the corsets in
order that the figure may seem TO
curve outward below the waist line
in front.
Designated as Disgusting.
Now this is simply disgusting!
More than that, it is inartistic ana
meaningless. Twenty or thirty years
ago 1t was the fashion to wear a
hideous thing called a hustle" If old
photographs are tc be relied on these
O ltrageous affairs completely de-
stroyed the beauty of the feminine
outline But they were quickly
laughed out of existence. Since then
we are supposed to have made some
progress in matters of art and dress.
We are supposed to have reached a
period in the worlds history in which
true estheticism has its own appoint
ed place; in which it is the duty. as
we'll as the pleasure, of the designer
TO follow the indications Of nature and
TO give to the feminine form all that
Wearing Other Folks Limbs.
DR. A l. Soregf a New York sur-