Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-22
Street BALLET
TO GO, LADIES
Women's Clothes In 1918 viii Be
Like Those Mother Used
To Wear"
MODESTY WILL RULE
American Designers Adopt Styles For
Next Spring Will Conserve
Material.

You dear old ladies, who have fan
cied yourselves young in short skirts;
you of the middle-age class, ditto
You young girls who have banished
modesty to the winds by showing four
inches of your flesh-colored silk hose
between the bottom of your skirt and
the top of your very high shoes-you
all of You, must say vale. valev TO
the street ballet costume you have
been wearing. and now so about
properly clad if YOU would still be
in the fashion" At last modesty.
the kind our grandmothers used TO
know tmark you. not mothers. but
grandmothers) is coming into its
own.
Well, il is evident that this sad old
world is nearing its end. This has
been predicted numerous times since
La crazy Prussian began running
amuck in Europe with a loaded gun,
but there was hope until the design
ers of women's garments announced
that next seasons styles would be
actually modest The street ballet,
the half-clothed flapper and the ladies
in their walking "kilties" are doomed
to vanish next spring
Modesty OF the old-fashioned. full
length variety is to prevail and will
prevail so far as the garment makers
are concerned. for they will make
only that kind of garments. OF
course. the more daring dressers or.
to be more exact. the undressers, can
have their own peculiarly startling
garments fabricated, but they will not
be in style.
Announcement has been made by
the Designers Association. which
holds its annual convention and dis
play January Is, that the time was
here, perhaps slightly overdue, 10 put
an end to the half-nude styles which
have prevailed for the last three
years Supporting their claims and
intentions, they permitted private in
spection OF a few of the leading de-
signs. Having been cut off from
Paris and Vienna by the exigencies OF
war and the pernicious activity of
the U-boats, women of the United
States are separated from the sophis-
ticated influence of those style cen
tres, and American designers have
hands. Mr.. Lenny, President of the
Association, said that the styles in
both those cities were originated by
the demi-monde and exploited by
them, afterward being copied by
American women, who thought them
very smart"
Aside from this there is the vital
necessity of conserving materials.
With styles changing every week and
frantic women trying to keep up with
the procession they waste enough ma
terial to clothe the nation. This is of
no particular benefit to merchants,
since they must lay in big stocks.
Fashions may change overnight and
leave these stocks on hand to be sacri-
feed President Lenny says one or
two styles a year are plenty and the
Association will endeavor to stand
ardize the matter this year.
1t is understood the Federal Gov
ernment has hinted that action Of this
kind will be appreciated. 1t is al
together possible that before another
1 season women of the United States
viii have something more serious than
/ styles to consider
Anyway, so far as the designers are
/ concerned. the era OF half-nude,
slimsy, slintight and other freakish
garments is at an end