Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-31

our clothes began In Palm Reach
In January As soon as the French
openings began In February, we.
over here, learned that they. over
there, had begun the samo trick IN
oostumery.
organdieS printed volles and flow
Wed chlffons wers the materials
used for those frocks, which bore
close kinsh'p 20 n softer epoch
than tho one in which We take our
part today.
II is OF psychological Interest, fhis
Introduction into women's apparel
OF kind OF costumcry that suggests
everything We are not at this hour
There may be no reason than thnt
OF tradition for us to associate flow.
cred muslins, big tAfteta sashes with
bows at the back. immense English
garden hatH tod under the chin, and
hce-covered parasols, with that part
OF womans nature that deals In CO.
duetry, the eternal appeal 10 mascu.
line admiration. helplessnoSs. and
all the accentuated tricks or fem
lNAHihN NAlN0 Nilf NOIlu NnOuEnt II
had wiped out TO certain measure
Yet we do connect these clothes
and these traits. The world always
looks upon n woman who ia frockcd
In figured muslin. her eyes shaded
with a huge hat, her arms half hare
and a rose at her belt, as one who is
out for admiration,
We do not wish to deny her this
pleasure; We cavil not at the ser IN
stlnot 10 flutter briEht-colnrrd plum
age we do not disapprove OF fam
ininlty In this guise-hut today We
look at II with astonished eyes. so
much water has gone under the
bridge OF life since these clothes
were considered fetching and ap-
propriate.
1t would not be possible TO sum
Marie. even within the covers Of
thick book. the things that have
happened to women since then.
Stupendous A. Ia their work In the
war and their successful fights for
suffrage, these are only keys that
are opening barred doors to wider
fields OF life. Woman herself, In
mass has been developed from the
soul out. She has found expression
OF this more fttingly in her return
TO barbaric insurgont clothes than
she could possible find In n return
10 the Dolly Warden. vatican shep-
i,rd.ss FngIish cathedraI garden
style
Thar. cannot sriSe critic so
fpollsh in these davs as IN suggest
that IN. militant wompn h not
capable OF Iooklne ike A Watteau
shspherdesu n she tnLes n into her
nina ,o do no Tberefore our sur.
prise "a not that the women OF the
mom.nt ,honId annesr we'll In tho
English gnrden tyne Of clothes with
which ons alwaya associates straw
berriey and crclm low voices wav-
inc hair nartad in the middle. and
shv .lno.t vpucbe manners hut
thai they should eI.oi this flnvery
ana tutiis fashlor At ,hIs hour
Vat ,hev arc dnin, II Roth
Frame. ana America M. heap,ng
figured fabrics upon It's womankind.
Iaca Ia ips,aIled again immense
bovs n, taffs,a ,ihbon. saEhea of ey-
.rv Ltnd. ftouing elbow sleeves;
surnlIcs recL. Win wiA. handker-
cbiet. a, colorod fabrics are shown
ana .,orn bv women who have prob-
RhIv snent the mornIne at class
In nurslnn al boApital and will
snend tn. .yenlnr at A canteen.
ian, This a ruriou, neurological
thing7 Here we hays preanhed for
tvo wears the strengthening tend
encv of women "a dress more and
NOR. liz men in tho day and either
very simply or in an Amazonlan
fashlon in the evening
wa have tried TO Etandardize
r,otbaa fooIishly nm, earnes,ly.
throupbout Ali channels OF dress.
W. Lnow ,ha, one OF the most i'm.
portsnt leagues OF Young women in
AmsrIca Is circulating n petltlon.
sIrned NV its members 10 the effect
that they are 10 buy only three
gown. a season, one for each diyis-
ion OF the day. the price 10 be $50
apiece. and the uniforms 20 he Of
standard pattern, And yet these
very sirIs rigbt on TOP OF such an
endeayor as this to conserve and
economixe, fling themselves into
lowered yoiles with pink and violet
taffeta sashes tied with deep hustle
bows at the back. and huge hats OF
Milan straw heapsd with flowers,
4, MAJ ha that the leonard can