South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-13
STYLES IN VOGUE
1900 YEARS AGO



WASHINGTON Jan 13.-Parisan
styles, with big hats. spool heels. and
tight-laced cOrsets were the fashion
i'm ancient Crete four thousand years
ago, according 20 the Rev. James
Bai5ie. in a recent account of his
archaeological discoveries addressed
20 Gilbert H. Grosvenor. director of
the National Geographic society IN
Washington.
The Rev. Mr. Baikie shows that the
Cretans had built houses and intro
duced methods of sanitation that tar
surpassed anything known in modern
civilization up TO 90 years ago, and
they had invented the written word,
although the historians have always
given this credit TO the PhOeniclans,
who did not appear in modern his
tory until a thousand years after the
CretanS Mr.. Baikie thinks that pos
sibly the island of Crete (the island
coded TO Greece by Turkey at the
conclusion of the recent Balkan war;
WAS the actual stage for most Of the
events which have reached the world
i'm the shape of the old Greek legends
1t has been in Crete that eXplora-
ton and discovery have led TO the
most striking illustration Of many of
the statements in the legends and ira
ditions, and have made it practically
certain that much Of what used TO be
I
! resents, with. Of course, many embel-
lishments OF fancy, a good deal of
historic fact" writes the Rev. Mr..
I Baikie. He describes the discovery
of the site of the great palace of
MinOs at Knossoa, in the labyrinth of
/ which roamed the blOod-thirsty
MinOtaur.
Wonderful Gowns.
The dress of the women he de
F4N III
/ the palace:
/ "Iiere." he says, were groups of
/ ladies wonderfully debizened with
/ costumes sembling more closely the
! evening dress of our day than the
| stately robes of classic Greece, with
! their severe lines. In their very low
| necked dresses, with pulled sleeves,
! excessively slender waists and hounc-
! ed skirts, and their hair deliberately
! dressed and curled. they were as far
| as possible removed from our ideas
of Ariadne and her maids of honor,
/ and might have stepped out OF a
modern fashiOn-plate. If the dress
| of the male pOpulace was simple,
! that Of the female was the reverse.
An elaborate and tight-fitting bodice.
! cut excessively low at the neck, COW
/ cred, or affected to cover, the upper
/ part of the body, which is so wasp
! WASTED as to suggest universal ughJ-
! lacing From the board belt hung
| down beu-shaped skirts, sometimes
] hOunced throughout their entire
I length, sometimes richly embrolder-
! ed In some cases the skirt, below a
| small panier or apron. is composed
! of different cOlOred materials COM
| bined in a chequed pattern diStantly
| resembling tartan. one frescoe rep
TesentS a curious and elaborate form
| of dress. consisting apparently of
| do Of
! ted with red crosses on a light
| ground and most wonderfully frilled
! and vandyked. DiaphanOuS material
/ was sometimes used for part of the
| covering of the upper part of the
| body Hairdressing was very elabo-
rate, and above the wonderful cree
ton of Curls and ringlets which
! crowned their heads, the Minoan
ladies wore hats of quite modern
| type, and fairly comparable in size
| even with those Of the present day. n
seal from Mycenas, representing
three ladies adorned with accordian-
plated skirts shows that heels of a
fair height were sometimes worn on
the shoes"
Well Equipped Kitchens.
The archaeologist also describes
the houses with their wonderful
drainage systems, which" he says,
cit would be hard to match in Eu-
rope until period as late as the
middle of the 18th century; the
kitchens, which he declares were
almost as well equipped the
kitchen of the present day. and the
carpenters tool kit. containing
saws, chisels, avis, nails. files and
axes. which resemble in shape the
tools of today so closely that they
furnish one of the strongest links be
tween the first great civilization of
| FurOpp and Our own "
The Rev. Mr.. Baikie thinks that the
Minian empire was overwhelmed by
a sudden great catastrophe. The
condition of the ruins which are be-
ing uncovered show traces of fire on
the walls and a sudden interruption
of the quiet and luxurious life which
the people lived.