Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-05
"PuR|TANIClL CRANKS"
OPPOSE M0MEN'S DRESS
new ADVANCED STYLE

AseAncA ana reactionery
crenks have opposed every change
made In women's dress in the last
!oo years ana now they're opposing
knickers for women"
so spoke j. CauI Macdonald of Bos-
ton' New York ana other places to a
henneoec Journal reporter Tuesday.
MI. Macdonald said it with much
more Heheme1ce than the mere words
would seem to indicate, for he is a
designer of clothes himself and is 1T
eraliy wrapped up in his subject.
Mr.. Macdonald is staying at the
hotel North for a few days while in
augusta on business. Just to men
ton briefly who he' is, it is well to
note that he is president of the
American Designers association. as.
sociate editor Of THE Clothier and
designer, a magazine which he
iounoed' designer Of clothes and a
general student of world affairs.
But, being designer, he is of
course more interested in clothes than
anything else. Last July, when the
American Designers association held
style show in New York, prizes for
the best designs in mems apparel
were offered. The contest was open
TO the world. and Mr.. Macdonald won
the first prize, a gold medal.
rms was being shown to his
friends in Augusta and it is a most
attractive affair, bearing this in
scription:
First Prize
A. D. A. Style Show
July 1921
New York
Worlds Contest
]. Caul Macdonald
Along with this, he is showing an
other medal which he won in Janu-
airy, the first special prize for design
ing knlckerbockers for either men or
women. This summer he is going to
england and compete against the
best designers of the British Isles.
But 1t is about Knockers that Mr..
Macdonald seems to be most inter-
ested at the present time. When he
won that prize in January, he had
the distinction of being the first man
to Introduce women's toggery into a
mems style show.
All of which goes to show" he
said Tuesday. That women's clothes
are coming more and more to be like
those for men,"
After saying what is quoted at the
mead of this article. he added:
women today arc the best dressed
for the times of any women the world
has ever known. These are hazard
Gus days. Women are in hazardous
occupations and it is for them to
o1 hot
liability to injury Why. think Just
what would happen to q woman in
those old long skirts if she at
tempted to drive an automobile.
Think of the dust those skirts used
10 raise when being dragged along
the streets.
'But there is more than this to
knickers. Women are less liable to
assault by men. Their morals are
protected and the costume is more
sanitary. With or without a skirt.
they arc the proper thing for dress
on every occasion except evening af-
fairs"
Along with his other activities, Mr..
Macdonald was and still is an in
tense admirer of Theodore Roosevelt.
He even published a little brochure
on the famous man whom he de-
scribes as 'the greatest man in all
history"
IF Roosevelt had been nominated
and elected in 1912" said Mr.. Mac
donald, "the European war would
never have happened because
Roosevelt would have told Berns-
doff just what the United States
would have done if there had been
any treaty violations. Then, the |
Kaiser would never have started the |
war, for he knew Roosevelt. He had |
figured out that without America
being in the war. he could beat the |
rest of Europe. But with the United |
States going in, the Kaiser knew it |
would be impossible to win"