The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-27
SOCIAL NOTES

Will the United States lead the world
by starting a state bureau Of fashions?
The best German minds certainly think
that the time has come when there
must be in Europe and In America a
widespread revolt against the weird
and inexorable DEGREES OF Paris.
Today Germany, the worlds model,
is aiming steadily at state regulation
of clothing, and Bulgaria (also for a
few brief months the worlds modeC
fas6ionP 6 pos ia%, b Bot 9nt coT9tri est @edI
died to zealously and, therefore, indis-
creetly; but why should not wiser
countries, instead of meddling, COLA
borate and help all men-and some
tiful, hygienic and economical, and,
finally, national; a garb which will
liberate us forever from the foreign
fashion yokes?
All such aims are attainable, and, in
places, will be attained. The director
of the Berlin Kaiser Frederick muse
UNI is organizing university of wom-
EMS fashions, for which he asks state
clothing university will rid Germany OF
Gallo satorial oppression and com
plete," as the Localanzeiger says, "the
liberating work of 1870"
Bavaria, in the Bavarian national In
terest, lately started a war on French
fashions. The minister of the interior
circularized the rural commissiaries,
instructing them to bring official in
fluence on clothing along national lines.
Health and patriotism were the reasons
given. The minister required the COM
missaries to discourage the craze of
the Bavarian highlanders for wearing
Paris" clothes and to aim at restor-
ing the healthy n patriotic Bavarian
costume. Paris clothes really meant
clothes made under Partisan dictation
in the Berlin ready-made shop: and it
pleased malicious Munich, while os-
tensibly aiming a dig at Paris, to aim
one also at Berlin. One of the com
of clothing on French lines has every
where been accompanied by the disap-
p~earance of the old folk arts, and by a
marked decline of public taste"
The Berlin movement to ~nationalize,
OF Berlinize, the fashions is something
serious. The meeting called to dis
cuss the high school for women's
clothing" was attended by representa-
heimer~and others-who promised both
none and technical advice. The
meeting decided tina THE chief thing
in reforming clothes was to keep ir
%clothiers. and to get state measures 0.
a nationalist kind fostering native de-
signs. Speakers appealed to the kaiser
who Is a great n~ationalizer in language
and other masters, to help.
Minor German courts are working
seriously for the naturalization o.
clothing. First and most effective /!
duke of Hesse. The duke Is the mos
practical artist among European roy
alties and also the greatest nationalist
The object of his famous artists
colony at Darmstadt is mainly to fos
ter German native styles, and he ii
strongly interested in the movement tt
create fashions which, as we'll as being
beautiful and hygienic, will be strictly
national. Two years age the aged an
also artistic reigning duke of Sake
Meiningen started a similar movement
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Gen" Rosalie Jones, who visited
Fargo last week and Is now speakins
over the state has presented the New
York Suffrage association with a tour
ing car. Miss Jones had the car, which
is an immense affair, made to her owl
order and 1t Is especially designed fol
long speaking tours. The car Is paint