The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-08
NOWERY CLOTHES
 IN WORLD AT WAR

vo.t-The attempt to Dolly
 Ne" -o our clothes began in Paim vrae varoeH in January. As soon as the Dsanch Deao openings began in tepruary, fren.n bere. learned that they, over we o had begun the same trick Ill there' an n" asserts prominent fash ion writer ..od vo,,es and fiow-
 ohiffons were the materials used eleu W .hose frocks, which bore close Kin au,n ,S, to a softer epoch than the one sr .a wbich we take our part today.
 " r is of psychological interest this ,.oauction into women's apparel of Lind of costumery that suggests averytbing we are not at this hour. wsaro may be no reason than that or ..ad,t;on for us to associate lowered .,nsl,ns big taffeta sashes with bows ~. .ho hack. immense English garden hots tied under the chin, and lace-cov- arad narasols. with that part of wom- s,,o noture that deals in coquetry, the otarnal appeal to masculine admira- .,., belnlessness. and all the accen- tro,ed tricks of femininity which the world thought 1t had wiped out to certain measure.
 yet we do connect these clothes and these traits The world always looks rnon A woman who Is frocked in acured muslin. her eyes shaded with Q buge hat her arms half bare and rose at her belt, as one who Is out for admiration.
 The Leopard and His Spots.
 There cannot arise critic so fool ,sh in these days as to suggest that the militant woman Is not capable of looking like a Vatican shepherdess if sine takes 1t Into her mind to do so. Therefore, our surprise Is not that the women of the moment should appear well in the English garden type of clothes, with which one always asso- ciates strawberries and cream, low voices, waving hair parted in the mid dle, and shy, almost gauche manners, but that they should elect this flowery and futile fashion at this hour.
 Yet they are doing 1t. Both France and America are heaping figured fab rics upon it's womankind. Lace is in- stalled again. Immense bows of taf- feta ribbon, sashes of every kind; flowing, elbow sleeves; surplice necks with wide handkerchiefs of colored fabrics, are shown and worn by women who have probably spent the morning at class in nursing at hospital and will spend the evening at a canteen.
 Isn't this curious psychological thing? Here We have preached for two years the strengthening tendency of women to dress more and more like men in the day, and either very sim ply or in an Amazonian fashion in the evening.
 We have tried to standardize clothes, foolishy, but earnestly, throughout all channels of dress. We know that one Of the most important leagues of young women In America is circulat- Ing petition signed by its members, 10 the effect that they are to buy only three gowns a season. one for each division of the day, the price to be s5o apiece, and the uniforms to be ol standard pattern. And yet these very girls, right on top of such an ehdeavor as this to conserve and economize, fling themselves into flow cred voiles with pink and violet taf- leta sashes tied with deep hustle bows at the back, and huge hats of Milan straw heaped with flowers!
 II may be that the leopard cannot cnange his spots, but women can cer- 'aihiy change her type at will. She seems to shrink and grow thin, to curve out and grow full, to stand uisher or lower in her boots, and to assume at will the militant or the .oquettish air. In this spring of 1918 U LOOKS as though she were going to uo all Of these things at various times Of the day.
 ehinese Influence Preferred.
 mere Is not much feeling of satis-