Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-26
Editorial Comment
Rolled Hose at cony High.
(Lewiston Journal. }


Samuel Cony who was staunch
old chap in his day may be as sur
prised to know what the girls of Cony
High school have been wearing as to
know what they are foreswearing--
provided Samuel Cony knows any
thing at all about it.
When Gov. Cony was in Office
girls were wearing skirts that just
escaped their boot tops and no more
would display glimpse of white
stocking after their hair went up
and their skirts went down than they
would do any other immodest thing.
The women were wearing Dolly
vardens in his day and maybe Gre
clan bends. And they wore their
hair in huge chignons and waterfall.
And no dress was worth whife that
did not have an overskirt with
eighteen yards in the skirt.
Old Samuel would never have
dreamed that the day would come
when a pocket handkerchief would
dress a whole senior class in the
high school and when the girl
matched her garters to her hair
ribbons and was keen about the tops
of her hose.
1t may be Illuminating to the old
hero to know that his girls in the
Cony High have all by their own
sweetness revolted against silks,
satins. georgettes, silk crepes, or
candies or silk jersies. He may be
pleased to know that they will not
wear drop-stitch sweaters without
shirt waists though Sam Cony may
not know what the burned things are.
He may be pleased to know that the
Cony girls will not wear French
heels or fancy stockings or fancy
garters below the knee or rolled
down stockings. He never knew
such things. His wimmen folks
wore what they pleased and maybe
WOODEN stockings on whatever they
used to walk with.
1t is surely good to hear so scnsi-
BILE program as the Cony girls
proposc-simple and young woman
| ly dresses of sober cloth and sensi-
bic wear. 1t has neen hard on par
ents of late to keep young misses
up to the level of the fashions We
overheard q child of eleven say
| ing that her girl friends in the
grammar school were trying to in
troduce the style of unbuclied over
shoes. Ouch is style. Rather late
| to be sure for year or two ago
every girl in Boston was going about
kicking slipshod overshocs along
with silk stockined underpinnings.
1t was a Wellesley fed. induced by
tardy creatures who could set a
| fashion, and hurry to recitation.
| A young woman in a New Eng
land college is simply struggling
of only $4,000 a year for clothes.
She is suffering, for clothes. Her
hats cost her fifty to seventy five
dollars each. Idle of course to COM
pare it with olden days when sew
cnty five dollars would clothe and
pay tuition for her grandmother in
a very good female college.
But-all said and done-it does
seem to be about time that young
people came to their senses and saw
something else beside rolled stock
ings and fancy carriers below the
knee. They waddle around in the
snow in silk hose or else. as hap
pens to be the present fashion wear
hosiery of wooden that cost any
where from two to six dollars a
! pair. Schools are competitive in
dress. Public schools are extreme
! ~ snobby. Cony High has said
something when it proposes to have
simple and neat garb for school
and cut out the attempt to ape the
fashions of Paris AMI the dress of
the front row of the Follies.