The Washington times., 1920-08-20
Fiigg
He Gives Advice to
Women on How to Dress
and Everything.
For Which We Award Him
the Plate Glass Mon
key Wrench.
~ SUSIE sHoPPE-

By SUSIE sHOPPE
Herd around me, girls. have
important stun to divulge. No less
than this:
Comes Howard I. FIGS. big official
In Department OF Justice. with
official advice on clothes for the
unsophisticated and uneducAted
female.
Parenthettcally speaking, girls
Mr.. Figg is the Solomon who render
cd . famous decision recently that he
Thought the skirts should be at
least below the waistline." Since
he delivered that classic. Brother
Fisg has stepped right out into the
sartorial light as an arbiter OF femi-
nine fashions. His latest is a state
nnent advising women how to dress.
doesn't 1t remind you OF the good
old days when T. r. megaphoned
to women the message that they
should raise large familiesD !
quote from Mr.. Figg:
BE independent in your style
Study your personality"
For originality in thought. we
award Mr.. Fisg the paperhandled
celiuloid ice pick.
What mere woman would nave
ever thought to study her PERSONAL
ity, in picking out dress to put
on same? 1t fairly reeks OF new
thoughts.
RUSSIAN SABLE SCORNs LEGHoRN
Be independent in style. Now,
isn't that comforting? The hun
dred and two pound stenographer
doesn't have to wear the same sort
, of a creation as the two hundred
pound laundress in opder to be
o. X, au fait-or is 1t CONNIE IL
faut?
IL Madame essays to slap a flop
py leghorn on a head that should
be wearing a Peruvian toque, all
you have to do is UP and say:
Nothing doing. Madame. MT.
Figg says we should be independ-
emit have a Russian sable per-
sonality and can't wear a yellow
leghorn. Show me something in
black minorca turbans."
- And Mr.. Figg has compiled
whole list Of goods, girls. which he
insists arc suited for various kinds
of clothes. For instance, wolfe. or
candle, and taffeta are suitable for
summer dresses.
Now, there is a thought! You
have just got to hand it to Mr..
Figg. Something should really be
done about this. Can't we get up
some sort of society and send Mr..
Figg a hand-painted china fan or
an electric footstool or something
of that sort? Genius of this sort
should be recognized.
Mr.. Figg says that velour, broad
cloth, and melton cloth are ap-
propriate for coats. Now, who
would ever have thought OF that?
without Mr.. Figg's handbook,
some silly person would probably
fell sport coat out of terra Gotta
or chenille or waste paper or
something.
quote again from Mr.. Figg:
Plan your outfit ahead. Buy a
View well-chosen garments. Buy
clothes that are appropriate. Judge
by quality"
NOW, L ASK you, IN ali seTlOusHesS,
could We solve a serious problem in
fewer and choicer words? No won
an heretofore has ever planned her
outft ahead. You know how we
just walk into a store and pick up
the first thing we see. Do we look
through Good Housekeeping Maga-
zine and dozen other fashion books
before we buy a suit? Certainly
not. We just slam right ahead
without any ideas or plans. buy
everything that looks like anything,
and then give what we don't want
10 the maid after we have looked it
over carefully. (The clothes, not
the maidD
Buy clothes that are appropri-
ate"
There's balm in Gilead for you.
No longer DO we have to wear sport
suits to the theater or bridal wells
to work. Something for every oc-