Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
taStic New Lingerie Makes Its Appearance
~ ANNE RITTENHOUsn.

~ ANNE R1TSTENHOUSB
T has been social custom for cen.
turtles to reverse the traditions in
small things while big things are
being overturned.
Human nature gets somewhat in the
habit Of breaking up all the furniture
after 1t has had the pleasure Of break
ing one piece. Perhaps the caveman
killed everything in sight and went
into q great Joy OF upheaval and re-
moval when his blood was moving in
that direction.
Troubles never come singly" is an
adage of the centuries, and to 1t may
be added the equal truth that up
heavals never Come singly.
When national troubles start 1t 10
quite the thing to Internationally
them. One war rarely begins and
wears itself out without companions
and successors. 1t has been said that
each hundred years there Is an enor-
nous upheaval through war which
changes the entire status of things
and re-creates mems minds and their
attitude toward their former schedule
Of life.
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Whenever a great series Of wars has
occurred there has been a vast up
heaval in major and minor matters.
From religious creeds to archi-
lecture, from autocracy to the shape
of shoes. life has been pitched around
like leaf in a whirlwind. 1t Is
housekeeping on planetary scale.
Strange to say. the wars that beset
the world during the beginning of
this century have not changed things
as much as the wars that took place
in other centuries. There was an at
tempt in Paris to overturn the stand
ards Of dress and do exaggerated and
fantastic things. There was a broad
and possibly successful attempt in
this country to simplify living, to
break down few layers of the
Tower Of Babel which stupendous in
dustry and great wealth have raised
to the confusion Of the people.
In Great Britain there has been a
serious attempt to overturn certain
rigors OF caste.
All Of these upheavals may have re-
Elections in minor matters as the years
60 on, for, surely. no one believes that
we will ever return to q pre-war
status.
One OF the wild cries Of humanity
for four years has been for peace, and,
yet. no sooner does It appear over the
horizon than the world begins an
enormous labor unrest that threatens
to keep peace from the minds of
every one, the laborer as well as the
capitalist, the hand worker as well as
the brain worker.
And in the meantime men and
women are trying out various kinds
OF small caprices, Just to keep in the
run Of things.
1t Is not possible for fashion to be
unaffected. Throughout the centuries
and women. Perhaps its changes have
been more closely bound up with
women during the last century than
with men, which Is reversal from
what took place in other eras.
1t would be interesting for any one
who has the time to devote seriously
to the matter to give the world
synopsis Of all that has occurred in
clothes during the four years Of
struggle.
1t might be found that no great
change took place until the war was
declared off, unless the constant
wearing Of uniforms by women could
be recorded as a vital fashion. His
torically. 1t may be; but we are too
close to the fact just now to see any
thing unusual in 1t.
What we do see is that the uniform
ing Of thousands Of women had little
effect on fashion when the necessity
for the war costume vanished. 1t has
proved to be merely passing phase
OF fashion.
France never cared for the uniform
as our women wore 1t. Her Red Cross
costume was more pictorial. her NUM-
ton workers costume was not espe-
cially attractive, and she did not look
with special favor. SO we are told.
upon the uniforms Of the thousands
Of Americans who occupied all her
sacred places and, according to her
belief. ran things with high hand.
That may be perilous statement to
make, but It is diff1cult to understand
the intricacies and subtleties of the