The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-21

rlcn man IN his, motor Car IS as
nothing by the side Of his dausIh-
tiers anger, in the presence of an
aigrette.
| Mr.. Wells goes on to say the
elegant woman does not want to
Ebe a work of art, she only wants
to insult and humiliate her sister.
He says he could conceive of
money as well spent on clothes
if only to be we'll dressed pro-
duced a holy calm, but it is not
good for women in general that
the calm of one should be bought
at the price of others rage and
humiliation. w. L. George in at
tacting the sumptuary laws, an
nounces that "he is convinced
that women are degraded by their
linsensate desire to deck them
selves out in fnery- they are not
entirely to blame, being slaves,
they must strive to.please so as
to acquire a protector, together
with a master. When they have
acquired a protector, they must
strive to please, so as to retain
his favor. But they are also per-
sonally to blame, they are COM
peting, not only for the vicarious
exercise of masculine power, but
they strive in a pretty spirit to
Outshine their sisters, because
they think therein, to find a SEN
sation of victory" Granville Bar
ker proclaims that the feminist
movement is responsible for wo-
mans declaration of independence
in dress: formerly, a woman would
compress her figure until her ribs
intertwined and even a most or
binary exponent of the feminine
gender, who knew nothing of
Euclid, yet could solve the diff
cult problem of putting number
four foot in a number two boot.
But the present day woman was
unwilling to suffer so for man
kind, her torso and pedal extrem-
tiles are expanding with her in
tellect and the twentieth century
product is composite picture of
Venus, Minerva and Hetty Green.
Of coursewe cannot really ex-
pect any revolutionary throwing
off or change of fashion, but with
a greater intelligence, women are
applying tests of common sense
to offered styles, and the women
who are applying these testes are
the social and intellectual leaders
of their sex, and their influence
has been, and will be, felt increas-
ing. In this day of the marvellous
social and intellectual growth of
woman there is reason for won
der that women have SO long,
THAT is so many of them yielded
slavish obedience to fashion.
Fashion grew in the proud de-
sire of the royal princesses, or
perhaps of the money princesses,
to form by their dress a sharp
distinction between herself and
the inferior people. These infer
iors sought by initiating her as
quickly as possible to tear down
the distinction. That it has last
ed so long, is because it has been
fostered.
Our looks consist of the pleas
ing form which care and the Spir-
it of the Individual improve or in
jure. and the covering of the form
for which we ourselves are alto
gether responsible. There will
always be the class that Roose-
welt described as ''the lunatic
fringe among the votaries of all
forward movements" You will
always see few who will adopt
such alleged fashions as the green
blue and mauve Wigs, the woman
with the Queen Anne front and
Mary Anne back, the September
Morns" who resemble the poets
description of the much benight-
ed Hindoo for clothes, he makes
his skin do" but the majority of
women belong to the conservative
party in sartorial matters and
bear in mind the admonition of
Polonious.
Costly thy habit, as thy purse
can buy, but not expressed in
fancy; rich, not gaudy, for the ap-
parel oft proclaims the man"
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