The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-09
Written by IMAGERY REX for the
 International News Service.

Written by IMAGERY REA TOT the International News Service. ..ew York, Sept. 9-After a re- cent article by the writer on women's dress today. it's follies and its handi- caps came to this office the amazing suggestion that rich women should compel their poorer sisters to dress plainly and simply.
 The idea was embodied in a letter which declared its author herself to have been a working woman at one time. Yet she submitted this opinion that it would be better for every body concerned if the poor didn't try to dress according to the examples set by their so-called "betters."
 Naturally this opinion has met with opposition. Several letters came in which con- tain the other side of the question: ideas worth attention. Here is one: Here's an Indignant Protest. My dear Miss Rex:
 How ridiculous! It is up to the | rich women to put the poorer class in their place and make them realize they must dress according to their stationI This cut me to the quick.
 ''Who are these rich women that | it is up to them to put the poorer class in their place?
 'I will admit that we should not try to initiate our wealthy sisters in dress, because after all, Miss Rex, do they really dress with discretion and m odesty? I have mingled with a few
 
 Because we are less fortunate. and I will not say that we are less fortu- nate in every respect. are we to be ridiculed because we are fond of pretty clothes?
 A well dressed girl has a much better chance than her dowdy sister. or I should say palmer sister, either dn the business world or socially I speak from experience. In the busi- ness world the better-dressed girl
 will always secure a position and keep it. Socially, the better-dressed girl will always secure admirers. Her poorer or palmer dr essed sister in all probability has more brains, is more intelligent in every way, but she is
 not given a chance to prove it. be- cause it is the attractive girl that att tracts The attractive girl does not l always prove stupid. either Neither | is the attractive girl attractive be- | cause she paints and powders. So you see the plainer girl surely hasn't | a ghost of a chance.
 Employers Not Complaining. After all, Miss Rex, we work six gest part of our lives at work. We | meet more people there than we would probably meet anywhere in a l month of Sundays. So if we saved
 be o1d-fashioned before many Sun | days would pass. Nice clothing | makes us feel better, it makes us look | better And I am positive our er.-
 
 | appearance, despite the fact that some people with nothing else to do
 are struggling hard to put the blue | law on a poor working girls clothes l and take away what little pleasure e
 she has.
 Please do not misunderstood me.
 Miss Rex. I am not condemning the wealthy. I do not begrudge them
 their rights. It is only that they | have nothing else to do and are
 looking for trouble. If I only had
 that wonderful art of knowing how
 to convey my thoughts on paper and
 make myself better understood I
 should love to write a book. With
 all good wishes.
 Sincerely, LORETTA" | I am sure Loretta would not want | business women to overdress or ap-
 pear inappropriately clad. Yet every | girl has a right to appear smartly | gowned wherever she may be and as | well as she can afford.
 | 'L- NJ. G." writes me in another
 vein. She asks where the responsi-
 bility should be placed
 | Would Place Responsibility. | Things have been happening right | along which would cause a good bit 1 of discussion if one wished to com ! r1eTt on them, but great character 1 istic of the people of America is that | they are happy and good-natured
 and believe in Live and Let Live | With this idea in mind they have let quite a bit pass, not unnoticed, but "IliiOOl any pdItlCuld1 dtlenIlou- D II | when such thing as this arises it is | about time we gave our opinion. l we have really always felt great
 pity for these rich people who really do not know the happiness of life, so you can realize how absurd it would be for us to ask them how we should spend our money. Any rich woman's
 suggestion on this subject we would
 smile at and pass over.
 Upon reading these letters one
 would see that they really thought
 they were doing us a favor.
 ~AS far as changing the style al