Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-10

France sends us many afternoon
gowns. as well as walking skirts,
| which hang full from a high waistline
| In either pleats or fine gathers. and
are tucked In around the legs in some
| fashion to suggest trousers. The bifu-
cation is often in front, not in back,
and some of the great dressmakers in
France drop pleated panels of ornate
needlework in the Slavic fashion
| down the front of the garment from
| bust to hem of skirt IN order to hide
the bifucation; but it is there Just the
| same
This silhouette, which. keep In
| mind, is patterned after the oriental
idea of trousers. and not the Anglo
Saxon one, gives rise TO an artistic
variety of skirts that for the present
seem to attract several classes of
| women.
| Possibly. in peace times or In an
| era of ceremonial social dignity, this
| idea would not advance so rapidly
among the women of two continents,
: but with millions OF women called to
take the places Of men, with cere-
I 'nial society simply gone by the
| board, and with efficiency, utility and
the greater degree of comfort being
the things that women worship today.
the trousered skirt is gaining head
way every week
Would 1t not be a strange thing II
| this tremendous war should really
bring about the trousered skirt as n
standard fashion? Tho average wom-
an of the world will have some great
and dignificd examples of woman
hood to lean up against, If she
| chooses to cut off the material of her
garment below the knee and wrap her
/ L. -.
them warm and covered and yet give
them comfort.
The moralists may not feel that tho
great Georges Sand is woman to
use as an example for what one Is do
ing, but this supreme woman novel
list of France, as you well remember.
always wore trousers because they
were more comfortable than skirts.
Rosa Bonheur, the greatest woman
painter the world has produced. al
ways wore mannish attire because
feminine garments impeded her ac-
tivities and took up her time. DR..
Mary Walker the pioneer brain of all
that Is now the foremost subject Of
this country outside of war-the
woman question-had worn trousers
for so long that If she wore a skirt
the world would consider her cause
defeated
But all these women wore the
strictly Tannish attire. The modern
movement is toward something far
more graceful and effective and less
subject to criticism. 1t is the pat
terniug. of women's clothes after the
prinliti 70 ones of the orient that
leaves their legs free from the activi-
ties into which they have entered.
rhe extra short skirt with he very
high boot was the first symbol of
what women intended to do in this
matter, but the full skirt with its put
tee either cut in one with the material
or made of another fabric, and the
new zouave skirt with the puttee
which Is being worn by the women
who are offering their services to the
war, are garments which, rightly
worn, cannot cause criticism even
from woman's severest enemy-the
other woman. for the oftrepeated
lines should really read:
"Woman's inhumanity to woman
has made countless millions mourn.
Lcggings on the Arms.
One of the smart women who
wore a white crepe de chine gown,
the full skirt of which ended in short
leggings OF jet over white silk stock
ings, also wore on her arms what one
of the men In the audience called leg