Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-14
Roman Horns Are the
Latest Idea-Back to
the Past for Inspira-
ton - Simplicity for
the Simple New
Fashions at the
Opera.
BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE.

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| Z are on the way to wreathe
| W. aud garland our hair in
| the pleasant south sea
| island way. also to sig
nifty battle and terror by jewelled
horns and fantastic and towering
headdress.
| One sees no echoes yet of the hair
| fashions Of the beach at Tahiti, where
the women pay more attention to
| the dressing of their heads than their
bodies. There are no Rupert Brooks.
| no Stevensons, no Frederick O'Briens
to make poetry or vivid prose of such
sarlands here, no Gauguins to paint
them on glowing canvas, hone to
register such fashions in words or
pigments that other generations will
read and gaze upon.
The artistry of the season when it
expresses itself in headdress is not
that of Oceanic. 1t is not often shown
in flowers. 1t is sophisticated, ancient
in its suggestion. made up of the
things created by man and not by
nature.
We do not use headdresses that
bear a meaning, that portray an emo
ton. We have no flowers that sug-
know the language of Wreaths, as do
the Tahitians. We only know the
cost of the fashion of the things We
wear.
True. these headdresses of the sea-
son are filched from the eras when
the body as do the south sea women.
but they knew the coquetry of
clothes and made them serve their
purpose. Not modesty but art was
their reason for wearing the clothes
1t was an ancient custom. this one
of decking the hair. and wherever
there are primitive tribes, wherever
history has recorded racial customs.
there we find the fashion for draw
land was the substitute for the hat,
or the other way aFound. II a king
had not hated to get his head wet
we might stiIl be ornamenting our
locks with Jewels. plumes and rib
bors in the day as we'll as evening.
all their primitive sisters have bet
ter time of it than we do; they find
the means of decorating the head in
their gardens and forests. while We,
yoked to modern customs. pay and
pay for the covering that is usually
un becoming and always costly.
Through many moons We have pre-
sented strong contrast between the
day and the evening by covering our
heads completely while the sun shone
when the stars shone.
We left to France the fashion for
ornamentins the hair. We realized
what women were doing over there
to brighten their somber costumes
during the war. but we liked the
Enh1jSh STYLE rf he N q RI
head much better. We ceased to en-
nance our simple couture by artificial
curls or pufrs. We gave 1t "a soft,
large wave. and let it go at that.
Gay combs were forsaken. jewels were
sparingly and infrequently worn by
those who owned them. The hair
dressers moaned over the carelessness
of the times. What cause they had
for this no one could reason out, for it
was and is, difficult to get an hour
get two middle aisle seats at the
theater for the first night Of Well
advertised play. ..-...
Suddenly the fashions of France in
headdresses appear to have slipped
over here with the abruptness of q
submarine rising out of the depths.
will wear them tomorrow night at the
gala opening of the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York, which is
the signal for society to move into
its accustomed place for the winter.
In Paris last summer. the dress
making houses Showed gay and cost
1y head "garniture along with the
evening frocks. They got up some en- :
thusiasm among the buyers. A few
Of them were ordered with the gowns
to be sent to America The smart
women who have started to decorate
the head say, they got the idea from
London. where the women have been
dressing extraordinarily well. al
though the conditions Of life were nor
az much improved there as in the rest
The English who. after they aban-
doned the royal friZz. wore their hair
Tar more simply than the American.
We're content with Jewels or the classic
lear wreath. but the Parisiennes went
70 the gorgeous east for their insni.
ration. They delved deep into Asiatic
They wear whatever is capric;ous
exosic. II Semiramis and the Queen
OF sheba wore headdresses to even
lns entertainments, they undoubtedIv