The Washington times., 1922-07-02


again I change my form. my color
or my race-for Beauty. too. has
changed her mode-the Beauty
once I loved-she now is common
place.
"A complex character mine
ever lost within itself-chansing
always-new but never new. Few
know me well-few can foretell the
guise I next shall take. For-ah,
and here It isl take my cue from
Beauty and Originality.
81 LAUGH to think what fools
people have made of themselves
10 court my good will and favor.
IT am a whimsical mistress. and,
In my everlasting quest for new
themes. capriciously vacillate frori
one extreme to another.
Take. for example. the costume
Of the medieval periods. 1t was
delightfully."- simple and lovely
long, graceful sleeves and long.
flowing lines that accentuated the
uncorseted figure-flat heels and a
natural headdress found in the
long braids that hung unadorned
except for ribbons-materials were
soft and silken-ah. that was a
pleasing, simple era.
Contrast this with Elizabethan
days. What fads and foibles! With
stern, unbending laws I decreed a
stiff, unnatural period. laced
the ladies in steel corsets-made
them uncomfortable in padded.
hooped sowns-put wired ruffs
around their necks and babe them
totter on high. impossible heels.
And they followed me like the
silly geese they were. So pleased
were they with their stiff gowns
that they hung mirrors from their
girdles, the better to survey the
freakish splendor.
OEOR several centuries ! was
a stern leader-to relent when
I planned the Empire fashions.
Extremes again-how glory in
my ability to vacillate Grecian
gowne-Randals and shawls-but
still they were geese-no original
ity, and they were mere weaklings
TO follow my dictates without a
murmur.
'Over a hundred years have
sped quickly by-hoops. bustles
and a sixteen-inch waist.line have
been banished and today am still
an .unconquered leader-my word
is law but I must now beware.
The modern woman Is no goose.
She is clever enough to recognize
my power, she hesitates not to
deviate from the ordained rules
she is a law unto herself and urges
me to combine my ideas with hers
and, behold am a truly demo-
cratic monarch. I put aside the
formalities Of former years and
chat with friendliness.
"I realize how careful l must
be in my DEGREES when I read these
ultimatums in the newspapers:
we keep few essentials and
add them to worthy survivals from
the past. We cannot long retaim
q trimming or gew-gaw that Is
not useful, but II the fashion sur
wives the test II is bound to be
thing which will be generally re.
spected.' Or this-'These are no
days for freakishness. Novelties
have been tried out and either
found wanting or promoted to a
place of Importance
1.-THE ruler Of the ages-of all
people-in every country under
the sun-I-Style. do take under
my protecting care Her Highness
the American woman. Sensinie,
smart and always with an eve for
comfort rather than for extreme
style. she has won my admlra.
ton, and with her do enjoy a
coy little chat. I predict:
THAT the fall Of 1922 will be
one of the most pleasing in years
in. styles. fabrics and variety.
UWRAPS for evening wear are
exquisite and are only
shade more elaborate than the
street wraps. stressing richnes
In velvety fabrics. luxurious furs
and distinctive Innings. Even the
names Of the fabrics are susges
lively pleasing-gerona marcova,
fashona, marvella. veldyne and
ormadaie and a distinguished fab.
ric the French call mateiass..
"A cable from Paris and Auteuil
brings news. perhaps unwelcome.
that sl<irts are-lonE. Dress skirts