El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-29
Fashions In Feminine Beauty.

! Next thing you know you'll be tell-
l fne me that you like skirts three
. inches below the lnee and thar sol
think zalsomined noses and cnlne
and cherry-stained lips ana cheeks
are the best ever.
chins and vivid lips and cheeks IflaAe
! caricatures OF women And makeup
about bathing suit length are neither
modest nor pretty. Fashion can
change artistic fact nor sanitary
laws nor morals. my dear
ST never liked to see girls aplng
masculine fashions 70 the extent Of
making themselves caricatures q
men. I've Just told you that aon
care much for caricatures. But some
how can't see how SOFT hurry nalE
blowing about a pretty face - one
bit more absurd and Ridiculous ana
unidentified and silly when rs snort
hair cut across the neck than when
it's TO the shoulders OF waist anu
pfnued I'D to form q frame Ike that
nicely cut short hair offers"
Then You don't think Grace mas
made a fool Of herself?" demanded
Ned somewhat aghast-
Il don'tF' I confessed Grace had
long. thin, straggly haiE- Ana sne
filled 90 full Of pins and held u IN
with nets after she'd burned IL to
its present state through frequent
grow She isn't wearing Il one whit
less gracefully than when Il was
ionz- She dOesn look masculine or
cheap or tawdry or undignified-
she is 1ree from the rats ana
switches and false puffs and 'bohs
some girls wear. She isn't looping
her hair over her ears and across her
face in great gobs-a terrible fash
ioui She's sust framing pretty
eager face in clean, soft hair that
HHaHH 1nHM ND p
looking as anything I've seen this
well Pm surprised at youl" de-
c1ared Ned out Of the midst Of
seeming daze- Il amor fact
A Sensible Fad.
why" I demanded IN turn, an
sWerinE myself as I went on; short
hair Ia today seems 70 me to be
one Of today's few sensible, practical
fads. II IS clean It's graceful It's
essentially feminine It's innocentlT
TouthifyinE- It's comfortable II
saves tine for dressing as we'll as
money for pins and nets and waves
It gives a healthy freedom to the scalp
and the mind as Welli And when it's
becoming its very, very becoming
There isn't any deep logic or basic
morality OF high principle involved IN
long hair. Men wore theirs long once
too, you know. There isn't anything
uusauitary or unsightly or bold or
common about gracefully cut short
hair It's honest and natural Some
how It seems TO insist on the Danish
ing Of other artifice as well"
''You think thatT" Easped Ned.
"Tes. think that's possible I said
You see bobbed hair gives TO q young
woman the look OF being nice And a
sense OF the fitness OF things may
keep a woman who looks like a nice,
clean girl from pasting her face up
with layer upon layer Of unclean cos
mstfc- She won't have to. For the
soft frame OF hair uncontined by nets
and not strained over pads and ear
muffs Is 50 kind TO most faces that Il
saves them from the need of-tint-
7arhen you don't think there's any
reason Why I-shouldn't take Grace to
the dancer"
There would be-and plenty Il ever
I told Grace what q little narrow,
conservative. cheap viewpoint You
Just showed I replied severely. ''The I
idea OF feeling that any fashion that's Z
at once clean and modest is indecent I
u didn't say that" protested Ned. I
Il just thought Just thought-oh I
guess was just used to Grace with I
her nets and pins and marcel And I
now crow II you like-she looks about /
the same with her hair short-only .
1rettier."
Shades OF masculine 1oEici no won I
der white looks black and gray seems ]
green once IN e while TO puzzled girls I
who are trying to do the right and /
proper thing in this funny old world /
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