The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-07-24
The TUT CRAZE
HAS ITS VAGARIES
nrAppERS ARE AMATEURS
COMPARED WITH THEIR
pPOTOTYPES ON NILE.

oR,ame it on King Tut" seems to
.ba latest explanation for the eter-
Dc Dc, ~.ddre of womens fashions.
"" anoarel worn by modish Egyptian
amen was often artistic. frequently
abi,ticated and sometimes rather
ii.5;crous, if judged by modern, stand
nrds il would seem from a bulletin
aIuS, from the Washington head
nnsrters OF the National Geographic
'V STb9 long one-piece dress, so much
=. ,oare today is similar TO that worn
~ n he women Of ancient Egypt" says
~. brI1etin. "The words of an account
L1 ~. the dresses worn by Egyp-
~, ,,on1en more than 3,000years ago
. .,;abt easily be mistaken for lines
i ;r,1T modern newspaper story of
I.rotbes worn by the women OF fashion
ot0, come smart affair: The dresses of
s a. consisted of loose robe reach
;ng to the ankles, with tight or full
iTS fastened at the neck with a
string. 49,, ST., coaLo.
"Over these robes they sometimes
,,,ore a sort of petticoat, secured at
the waist by a girdle. The women of
tbe higher classes secured the loose
dress at the waist with colored sash.
"Women had been wearing dresses
of that type to some extent, but with
tbe advent OF Tutankhamen modistes
have been reverting to the patterns OF
cloth used by the women of his court.
4gain our old chronicler says: The
Gown was Of richly-colored stuff, pre-
senting a great variety OF patterns,
not unlike our modern chintzes, the
most elegant of which were selected
for the robes of deities and the dress
es OF queens.
And Fifth avenue queens" are re-
rerting to the wiles of the women OF
Egypt among whom we count the
most alluring and willy lady in his
tory
Elaborate Earrings.
Egyptian women, however, wore a
in one particular. She wore her back
hair in a number of long plaits, with
perhaps a plat or two hanging down
with soft loose ends in front of each
shoulder. But the modern girl is a
positive amateur with her bandoline
fshhook curls on her cheeks. Her
Egyptian prototype took these short
strands and Intervene them with long
er ones into corkscrew curls that
hung down in front of her earrings.
Her earrings, too, were particular
" large and elaborate Sometimes
they were large, round, single hoops
of cold two inches in diameter and
larger. Royal ladies sometimes wore
coiled golden asp, whose body was
set in precious stones and the tip of
whose tail passed through the holes
in the ears.
Men Used Gloves.
Gloves were worn by Egyptian
men as early as the eighteenth dynas
tv. but there seemed to be no evil
dence that women wore them at all.
A pair OF 16-button lengths were
found in the tomb OF Tutankhamen
for his use in the future world.
Egyptian women, however, ware a
great many rings, crowding any num-
Der of them on the third finger of the
left hand. which even in those days
was considered the ring finger par
excellence, because of the honor
thrust on it at the wedding ceremony.
They also wore necklaces of gold. or
of beads of various kinds, usually
with drop of some kind i'll the cen
ter.
"One of the new fads-that of
wearing red, green or blue shoes OF
the sandal types our latest reyer-
sion to Egyptian modes. Egyptian
women were particularly fussy about
their sandals. These were often woven
OF palm leaves and papyrus stalks,
but were sometimes cut out OF leather
and lined with cloth. Contempt for
an Individual was expressed by paint
ing his picture on the inside of the
sandals 50 he might be trodden on.