Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-30
LOSS CHARM
IN WOMEN DUE
TODAME STYLE
Painter Says Dress Designed
for FrenchwOman Can't Be
Worn by Others.
ENGLISH WOMAN TALLER

LONDON, Aug. 3o-Mrs. Asquith's
statement in her autobiography that
"heauty has gone has stirred up things
Some of the leading English painters
and photographers have rushed to the
defense of the girl of today.
''You had the 'beauties'-but we have
beauty" is their cry.
Philip de Lazzie. painter of famous
personages, admits, however, that the
women of today are not so typical Of
English beauty as they were-but he
attributes it all to the rage for French
fashions.
II do not think that English women
nre less beautiful now than they were
In the times that Mrs. Asquith refers
to" said the painter. But l do not
think they are so typieally English as
they were.
sThey do not take the same care 10
dress in such a way that they will pre-
serve that peculiar dignity and distinc-
ton which sets them apart from the
women of other nations.
"The English woman, for instance, is
taller than most continental women. She
has a more graceful and easier car
rage. A better and healthier complexion.
she bears the marks of a more open
air life.
Yes when she adopts the dresses of
her French sisters-which become them
exceedingly weli-she is detracting from
her own individual charms.
THE SAME
WITH HAIR.
ct is the same with the couture. Ar
present a mode Of dressing the hair i
in vogue which seems TO me really a
product of the war. when munition girls
and others were obliged TO treat thell
hair in that way. If 'woman's crowning
glory is her hair this couture is most
unsuitable.
cit is in ways like this that fashion
Influences the beauty of our women. The
women Of thirty years ago dressed them
selves in such a manner that their unique
English style of beauty was seen to the
best advantage.
Nevertheless. I am still of the opinion
that Mrs Asquith is wrong in her state
ment and I do not believe that England
IS at all lacking in lovely women today
Another Of the celebrated painters who
gave his opinion was Augustus John,
who said he was not despairing in the
least He added
DON'T THINK THEY
ARE LOSING BEAUTY.
II can't speak for the eighties, but
I don't think our English women are los
ing their beauty. Perhaps they are really
getting more beautiful. Anyway. I am
keeping IN my hopes"
One of the leading photographers for
whom many famous beauties have sat.
claimed it was because there were so
many beautiful women in the public eye
today in comparison with the days Of
yore that an ordinary beauty was hardly
noticed.
"Instead Of there being one leading So
ciety beauty who puts everyone else in
the background there are so many that
distinction is impossible. Certainly we
10 not find that beauty is passing away.
Other society and stage photographers
concurred with this viewpoint. There
fore. it seems as though Mrs. Asquith has
stirred up a little trouble for herself, and
il is more than likely that every society
beauty-as well as the would be's''-
who meets her for some time will be anx-
lous to know if she is or is not an ex-
ample of the dictum issued by the wife
of the ex -prine minister