Evening star., 1923-07-22

lined None Of the street one reaches
the ankles.
"You should see the tailored suits
and the accessories that go with
them: pearls close to the neck and
dripping down the chest; extraordi-
nary handbags Of the costliest kind;
forty-four count stockings, as they
call them; embroidered gauntlet
gloves as brilliant as those worn by
Catherine de Medici; earrings from
China that glow like prisms of white
jade and seed Of colored agate and
aquaramine; umbrellas like gnomes
with misshapen heads that cost a
pretty penny to buy.
oh, walt a minute, let me tell you
that headdresses are slipping out Of
style. No really smart woman wears
them this summer. Their heads aren't
big enough to hold them. That's an
other story. Let me tell you first
about earrings. They are trains.
They fall down the back of the frock.
They are as long az loveiocks oil
Charles the First They have TO be
looped around the ears sometimes on
account of their weight. They are
fashioned of every kind of metal and
Jewel that the world, civilized and.
otherwise. has worn for ornament.
Now about the heads. Long hair
is vanishing. Women over sixty
have their hair shingled at back and
massed into curls or fullness OF some
kind over the ears when they do not
brush It straight back with brillian-
tine There is no knot to make
bump. If a woman wont have her
hair shingled. il is cut short. divided
into two strands at the nape OF the
neck and each strand Is fiattened to
the head and held there with a tor
toise shell pin. It's the most curious
effect, this sleek, fat, minimized head.
Women run into pin points. So. OF
course, the hats are tiny. The he'll
NETS in this country are Gains
boroughs in comparison with the
high-crowned. almost brimless shapes
over there. The shaving brush has
come back. 1t replaces the .cockade
of fabric or ribbon. 1t sticks straight
up, or out.
There's a new hat of importance
and popularity, by the way. The
brim is sharply dented into a tiny
! point in the exact front instead of
visoring the eyes. One hat carries
| it's shaving brush just above this
point, fiattened against the crown"
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IvYyOMEN should consider the pre-
w vailing silhouette with a good
deal of concern. 1t is not a particu-
larly graceful one. If nature has
&la,
below the spine and over the hips.
this fiattened back. suggestive of the
ancient oriental fashions Is not the
best that can be chosen.
Curiously enough, the French are
| the last race of women in the world
| who should attempt such a silhouette.
They have more curves than the av-
erage American. They seem to be
proud of them in an oriental manner.
We are not. Our entire feminine ef-
| fort is against curves anywhere be-
| tween the top of the head and the
| arch of the foot. But some of US have
them. despite effort. What. then. are
| these curving women to do with the
established fashion? Reject 1t and
| look we'll? Accept it and be a bit
| grotesQue? ..-t
The fiattened back is more pro-
nounced by reason of the fiaring
| front of the skirt. The apron ef-
| feet permits whatever ornamentation
one chooses. Ruffies, tiers. bands,
throw the apron into fullness.
| The coiffeures have carried this
trick Of the dressmakers into their
arrangement Of the hair. No matter
what kind of fluffiness one achieves
over the temples. the hair behind the
ears is like that of a small boy who
has been in swimming. The young