Evening star., 1922-08-13

tn HERE'S just no suitins some
folks taste No matter how
hard one tries to please, there's s
- always somebody who thinks
tie new pattern is all wrong and tries
TO make everybody else miserable and
dissatisfied. too. Not so very long ago
&. everybody was up in arms about the
tlreaifu high heels and long, tight
skirts that the girls We're wearing. They
talked at great length about the aWfui
waste of time that girls put into doing
up their hair in complicated pufs ana
rolls, and they deplored the ridiculous
hobble walk which the girls affected.
The general ation before that one had
to contend with a great mass OF crlti-
cism about their long. fun skirts Wnlch
swept up all sorts of microbes. Beiore
them. We're the girls of the great fuii
sleeves and the hustle and so on, clear
back beyond the hoop-skirt stage.
Girls have always had criticism OF
their dress and. up to the very present
day, through each OF the preceding
generations those who have tried con-
scientiously to give really constructive
criticism of this everpresent subject
lIavs strongly advocated shorter. conn-
<cEtably full skirts. sufficiently large.
fat-heeled shoes. simple hair dressing
.pd no corsets. Yet now, when the
girls. dress OF today is exactly the COM
pIete product of all those much ham,
luered-in suggestions, there are sun
people who are not satisfied and are
inconsistent enough to advocate return :
ing TO some of the previous horrors OF
heSfeminine wardrobe.
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IS it any wonder that girls have finally
- revoited and have decided to please
themselves exclusively" 1t is constantly
vet feebly suggested in various fashion
periodicals that American women and
girls will really take up the styles
which Paris has already been wearing
for a couple of Years. which include
the ankle-rength skirt and the high
necked waist, with tho type of collar
that has TO be boned to he held in place
under the ears. The colonial pump.
with its inevitable accompaniment. the
high Louis heel. is whispered to be the
latest thing in footgear and the new
styles of hair dressing which are said
TO be used in Paris suggest nothing so
much as pictures of motion picture
stars demonstrating how they get their
hair out of the way in order to get the
hest possible results in applying facial
makeup.
1t may be that the French girl. who
has always been noted or her chic
rather than her actual beauty of face
may be able to get away with it, and
make a success of this most trying way
OF doing the hair. but a large and as
sorted variety of shocks is due the
American public if the ma jority of girls
IN this country adopt those styles in
their present. unmodified versions.
The poet has often sung through the
various ages of poetical history of the
dainty little shell-lke ear of his lady
love. Today. however. especially in
America. many ladies' ears have q dis
tinct outstanding quality that makes
Red Riding Hood asked her supposed
grandma what she had SUCH big ears
for and the sly old wolf replied. 1.-THE
better to hear with. my child No.
the poet of today is in for GisiIusion-
rnent. we fear and his verse. which
veious Sight. will run something like
this:
What do ! discover"
en- -. Surely. can it be"
5h No. of course not, Yet il IS
-'ss"- a ladys ear | see
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IT is. of course, quite true that an
L increasingly large group of
- women of the American stage is
wearing the new long skirts and
htgh-necked blouses. but this does
not necessarily indicate that the
newly Independent young girl will
slavislly ape the actress as she has
done in preceding generations. Al
though modistes and older women.
especially actresses. are ioathe to
admit it. it is really the fla pper who
has set the fashions. not only for her
self, but for her big sister. mother
and aunt The young girl no longer
SAYS to the actress as the immortal
Lylrette said to her Gareth. Lead,
and follow. No. sweet sixteen has
taken the bit in her own mouth and
is gallopins off with it in free and
easy strides.
The other day. in one of Wash
ington's- leading stores for womens
clothes, a.. fapper sauntered in
dressed in a French model with long,
full skirt and basque waist. The
dress itself was charming. but when
worn with bobbed hair and carried
with the long. swinging stride to
which the young girl has happily
grown accustomed with her short
skirts of the past few seasons. the
effect was ludcrous in the extreme.
The dapper was SO followed by snick-
ers- that she did not linger long over
her shopping.
Girls have grown quite accustomed
to being conspicuous. but after being