The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
BARE LEG FASHION START WAR ON FLY
French Girls Go to With City Will Urge Topekans To
out Stockings. Exterminate the Menace.
All Styles Start in Par-Here Brown Plans To Get Out
Before Longl Bulletin Literature
WINGART SEES new SIGHTS PESTS DIRTY LITTLE THINGS
Topeka They Prefer Vile
Mans Section o. City and the Filthy.
100000 Many Spread by Them
day Race Meeting. in the Homes
All Styles Start in Paris-Here
Before Longl
WINGART SEES new SIGHTS
Topeka Lieutenant Visits Poor
Mans Section of City.
100000 See Ponies OFF at Sun
day Race Meeting.

The Paris modistes have at last over
come one thing-the high cost Of
silk. Lieut.. Z. w. Wingart, of the
Stars and Stripes, writing from Paris,
tells OF the sensation created by a
number of the beauties of Paris ap-
pearing at the Longchamp races with
OUT any stockings.
Inasmuch as the majority of Paris
styles for women eventually reach
New York, and then are patterned
after in all parts of the United States,
weiI-use your own imagination as to
the interesting scenery which some
day might grace Kansas avenue.
In a letter from Paris to a friend
here. Wingart, who formerly was on
the staff of the State Journal and the
Associated Press, says:
City of 1000 Impressions.
..E,verytirne one visits this city he
gets a new impression of France and
her people. In this respect Paris
mfx!at well be termed the city of a
thousand impressions. While driving
up the Champs Elysees and out thru
the Bots de Boulogne l had sood
opportunity of seeing a great part OF
the population, for everybody seemed
70 b taking advantage of the splendid
tistic way the French dress the kid
dies The youngsters were all out
bright and smiling in their happiness
with the great out of doors, ana all
whom I saw were dressed most De-
witchingly They were not over
dressed but each child seemed to wear
lust the kind of frock to fit with its
impetuous viVacity and sparkling
complexion. They are woRders-these
French children-and they love to
oil q
Sunday afternoon in Paris is family
afternoon for all and everybody goes
out to the woods to play Old as
well as young. 1t was no uncommon
sight in the Bots to see groups or ten
to fifteen grown-ups gathered IN
circle with one of their number blind
folded having their time OF thelr
young lives. did not inquire
closely but from observation was sure
that many of these groups were made
up of father, mother, daughters ana
sons and daughters-in-l law and SON.
in law Everywhere you could see
children playing. In fact the woods
were full of EN-
Poor Mans Section.
Yesterday l had the chance TO see
what is termed the poor mans sec
ton of Paris-the Bots des Nincennes
and the vicinity of the Place de la
Nation. 1t was quite a contrast to
what L saw lOudS Ct AAAS sCOAS ~
Boulogne, the well-to-do section. The
principal feature of the activity
around the Place de la Nation was a
huge street carnival, somewhat after
the fashion of the Parker shows, but
much more elaborate, with number
of troupes of street performers thrown
in. There were hokey-pokey women.
curiosity shows merry-go-rounds and
ginger-caEe stands galore. The
youngsters in tattered clothes ap-
peared to be enjoying themselves to
the limit their few confines would
carry them.
ION our way out to Versailles to-
day we stopped for a short time at
Longchamp to watch the crowd at the
races. 1t was the first Sunday race
meet in nearly five years and judging
from the crowd, which must have
numbered 100000, everybody in Paris
tried to get to the races. We drove
our car alongside the course and had
an excellent opportunity of viewing
the entire picture. Altho I did not
see them, the feature of the event,
according to the Paris papers. were
the mannequins from the dressmak-
ing establishments. who appeared
without stockings. This new fashion,
recently started by several actresses
in the Paris theaters, clearly upset the
racing enthusiasts. The newspaper
stoIleS printed ABOUT the stocklngiesS
girls say the crowd had a hard time
keeping eyes on the horses. The ca
son for the new fad as given is that
silk stockings cost so francs Capproxi-
mately SOD a pair and they are so
thin that it is scarcely noticeable that
a girl has on stockings. So why wear
EN- at all. Along with the lack of
stockings, say the reports. the man.
nequius wore high-heeled slippers. cut
away in the insteps and sides. leav-
ing only a network of leather thongs
Those who observed the fashions
closely also stated that low-necked,
armless gowns, rather longer than for
merlY. marked the first Sunday races
at Longchamp. AS some enc has said.
YOU never can tell what you will see
in Paris. There is no city in the world
like it,"
g. OOO now custor,ar. ~ T,,r, E,