Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-03
Fashion EXPERTS Say Avod the Very Cheat The Psob
Silhouette Trying Gust the Straight OneBodces Are Un
usually Slim and Narou-Drabery Increases

M and Narro1U-Drapery
in their lives: while the tremendous
web of volunteer war work that
spread over the country would bring
about an unprecedented demand for
clothes by women who had money TO
spend, but no opportunity to wear in
teresting clothes.
These two huge forces have swept
along in these new channels. and to-
gether they have done exactly what
was prophesied. Women are buying.
buying, buying.
1t Is not unusual for n tailor to say
that he is out of his head with the
orders for practical clothes which must
be made Immediately and for which
get httings at the dressmakcrs. and 1t
Is next to impossible to get good
seamstress by the day.
On the shops, therefore. falls the
they have every kind of gown that the
world OF designers offers. No French
model Is too luxurious for them, and
no American frock too cheap.
The only people who are not buying
up to their standard are the very rich.
and as 1t has been pointed out several
times to those who lecture on the sub
ject. 1t ls an absurd thing to quote the
miliionaire's wardrobe as an example
f to the woman nan Of slender means These
they own. and to go through the
duration Of the war. in the same
clothes that they had before the war.
This is millionaire talk; this is propa-
9 set Of women who buy thirty and
nifty gowns in the winter, and more
Tor the summer. can afford to go
through the duration of. the war with
what they own. especially as they
old clothes into something new and
keep them in the pink Of condition.
When a rich woman takes Off gown
1t goes to the repairing room in her
big house and Is brushed and sponged
overhauled, frcshened and put into
good condition by a skillful maid.
But the great mass Of women have
no such caretaking apparatus to guard
gowns q season. or ono, for every set
of social circumstances. When a wom-
an buys one tailored suit and makes
1T serve for two winters. as the ma
jority of american women do outside
of the millionaire class. what folly to
ask her not to buy any clothes until
peace Is declared! Is she to remain
locked in her room?
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But human nature adjusts itself de-
spite all sorts Of we'll meant TRADES
of talk, and 1t has adjusted itself In
the old, human way during this war
Women have money. they make money
and they buy clothes They find that
good gown is a good investment
,rhev st;Aa tho r.ci,I 1as;ro 70 .a+
s.e '"e ,"i "e'ie W 80.
procession of clothes throughout the
winter in order that they may have
that cbanpe ,vb,cb or,;yan. tb.;r ne,
This Is p rennine sacrif;cn 70 LARGO
sectors of women e.naci,lIv tbosa W.
work for thnir iivine. For ono ~ Tho
raorn,t;n,s os ti1;rs' ~, o.iu u Wy
have frasI f ~ tnein d 1A,s, ,s ,s 70
nut heart into tbam for dnii AND
routine work Tho hnvinc of one GOOD
gown gives then, no nhanro for Tho
bnvine of MANY Gowns hut tbaV have
sunnressed the;r dnS;ras .nd' uona
aboiIt nurchasinp their c,othes This
vear with The sam. h;yb enanayor to
serve their rovrrmment that thev have w.
shown In evsrv .'.ti,.ity ''''' ''e' NAVY
The rontiniance az Tho obou;ss
frock and the Sandwich siihouette has
given comfort 10 MANY women he'
canse n ollows tbnm 10 wenr for .
time the tracks they nossess whether
or not This silhouefte viii die ont as
tho season strengthens no nronhct can
tell us: but there is uneasiness amonp
those who watch fashions closely
Eyerywhcre one finds a tendency to
widen the hins, We are irving to Get a
peg-top silhouette as opposed 10 A
planked shad silhouette. II This change
comes about the straight chcmise
frocks or tunics will not have as much
value as they have TODAY.
1t is not oniy the Americans but also
the French who have nroposed this
silhouette. If is not ,,niversal. one