Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-12
CHAMPION CITY FOR
DIAPHANOUS DRAPERY
Female Landscapery on Bond Street
surpasses Sort Seen in Paris, Wen.
ma and Other Cities.
RUSSIAN DANCER SAYS 1T
ALL DEPENDS ON WOMAN
Aash -Four Inches Above Ankles
Charming in One Woman and AL.
most Indecent in Other.
By Ed. L. Keen

city OF the world for diaphanous drap.
cry. Recent visitors from Paris, Wen.
ma, Berlin, Budapest and even Roch.
ester, N. Y, say tina; the exhibition of
female landscapery in Bond street and
Flccadilly surpasses anything of the
sort they have ever been priviledged
to see The Miss Blossom who was
fined $25 in Richmond for blossoming
out in slashed skirt, from the descrip-
tion of her dress, wore winter gar.
ments compared to scores of dresses
seen here. In point of tenuity it makes
the August attire of the women folk
back home look like that of Eskimos
at mid-winter out. t.door fete
And the militant suffragettes and
circumspect, unfrivolous Right Honor
able Herbert Henry Asquith, premier
of Great Britain and Ireland have been
blamed for it all. While it is conceded
that ascetic looking Premier Asquith
wouldn't risk even one eye should the
Lady GOdiva pass through Downing
street, his accusers insist that he is the
real reason for the prevailing English
ultra-up-to-date variety of the X-ray
dresses, bifurCated blouses, slashed
skirts, and almost stockings. This is
their argument:
Asquith refused to give women the
vote Thereupon one section of the
female population felt compelled to
emphasize their claim to equality with
men by appropriating their costumes
as far as possible; while other sections,
as protest against this method, pro-
ceed to accentuate their feminism by
revealing to a gretaer or less degree
those features which distinguish them
from the opposite sex. In other words,
the latter are garbing themselves in the
manner which their experience indi-
Gates is most alluring-the gown that
delicately suggests what it conceals,
the soft, swishy, translucent fabrics
that are so effective in assisting the
imagination.
Nerve Specialist View.
This view is upheld by one of Lon
dcn's foremost specialists who de-
clares: "While, many women follow
the fashion of the moment without a
thought, militancy has done more than
its authors suspect to upset the former
delicate relations between the sexes.
The adoption by the militants of mas
culine or near masculine attire has
caused reaction, and the non.mili.
tants have thought it their duty to pro-
claim their feminity by a wholesale
process Of undressing"
"Lueille" (IAdy Duffy. .Gordon) writ
ing from Paris, refuses to believe that
the situation in London is as bad as
it has been represented. eff there is
suggestion of immodesty," she says,
/" it is because fat and ugly women
have been wearing dresses which do
not suit them. None of the best peo-
pie tolerate the exaggerated slashed
skirt, but some daring women like dar.
ing costumes, the gracefulness and
modesty of which depend entirely on
the physique of the wearerv
Anna Pavlova, the famous Russian
dancer (who has sometimes been ac-
cused of too great fondness for Gun.
dressing') supports "Lucille $50
much depends on the wearer," she
says, "What suits one woman will
not suit another, and a slash four inch.
ca above the ankles might he charm.
ing in one woman and almost indecent
in another"
Lady Alexander, wife of England s
great aetormanager, defends the alb
olition of the petticoat by saying:
"'What does it matter what we do or
don't wear under our dresses, so we
look nieel Wearing fewer clothes is
much more healthy than a lot of trail.
ing petticoats to pick up dirt and mi.
crobes.
DR.. Grundy for No Clothes.