Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-01
Extremes Count.

II is quite an estimable thing to be
dowdy, OF course-that is to say, the
standard of smart dressing is su-
perficial one. indeed. and many people
fit the description of the dowdy girl
people without whom our world would be
a dark place. indeed.
But If smartness is standard which
you set yourself. remember that ex-
tremes. rather than happy mediums are
what count
You can wear heelless sandals when
You dance If you want to-and if YOU
are d person Of Importance in your COM
munity probab bly, before the week is out
others will also be wearing heelless san
dals- But don pair of Iow-heeled Slip
pers, with conservatively rounded toes
and made OF soft. shiny kid-and nobody
Will copy your fashion. Indeed YOU
must have personality to overcome those
same slippers.
The fashions of the autumn are moth
ing II not smart Indeed. fashions have
been increasing in smartness if not
The moment emphasizes this. There was
one awful interval-shoTt to be sure
when that misunderstanding decapitation
line was in fashion Many fashiona BILE
frocks and blouses ended in a round,
straight line at the base of the throat
And not one woman in 4 thousand really
looked well in them.
Tired of V-Cut
Very quickly fashion took cognizance
OF this fact. and the neck line promptly
changed. The E-shaped neck developed
and was found ravishingly becoming
We have had our frocks cut with a V
at the neck for years. which is proof
enough that il was found becoming
For when a style lasts a long time IL
may safely be stated that il il becom-
ing. Cnbecoming things may be the
rage for a few weeks or u colpIe of
months. but not for years
Now we have grown tired, seemingly
of the frock cut to a V at the front
So high collars have come into fashion
But they are really high collars, not Jus,
an excuse for collars that cover up the
pretty curve OF the throat and expose
the part of the neck that is least likely
TO be plump and pretty-thats what
the decap agitation neck finish did
We cannot yet be very tired of the
N-shaped opening, for IL still persists
II is made. sometimes. with a fiaring
collar at the back and sides that reaches
quite TO the ears, and that gives i, "A
new touch But 1t is the V-shaped open
ing. just the same. and as becoming as
ever.
Perhaps one reason why the high collar
that was introduced last winter did not
win much success was that It is not high
enough.
When high collars were last in vogue
women tortured themselves willingly with
tiny wire fasteners that often irritated
The skin. and with collars tight enough
TO make ones head ache-they often did.
IN fact. But they were pretty, those
high collars. that -fitted every line OF the
neck and that almost reached the ears
Now the new high collar is high, but
il is SOFT and it easily and usually
crinkies down into a wrinlsled mass
which comes near to giving that old
dreaded decapitatiOn look. One might
think We had all descended from ances-
tors who went TO the guliotine, from the
way We dread this ugly line.
The short. full skirt-that is extreme
aud We like it. The high-heeled low
shoe is extreme 100. and smart, in spite
Of the fact that it may moi be hygienic
il is supposed. you know, 10 hurt ones
spine and ones nerves and ones pleas
ant expression. The long sleeve Of this