New Britain herald., 1924-08-20
FASHION OFTEN
 DEFIES CLIMATE
Customs Of Various People
 Clothes Showed Rank

Washington. D, c. Aug 2e,-"Ans
 ether pet thseFy must be consigned
 to the Fag-hag along Nilh gFana-
 msihsTs black hsmbazihe, ihst esT
 cause ehigago's winter slnsh oTigiT
 mated the unfaslensd geleshss or the
 sstsr-leEged marches of Holland
 made Friizis Duiehman take 10
 Haoden shoes, not all clothes aFese
 from the necessity Of protection
 against the Neath,h says bulletin
 frem the Washington, h, c,, head
 quarters Of the National Geographic
 society,
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 dshsd geography and the nappers ot
 r street or Broadway m their chiffon
 hess and satin pumps in the midst Of
 a January blast, or those who brave the artiRie rays of a July sun m fuFs' gre simply displaying ataFisiie tend sneiss, for clothes were ffst worn m
 warm and semisirepieai countries,
 Garments Insignia of Rank,
 ''nan first adorned himself in gar ments 10 parade his position or rank before less fortunate individuals, who were content and thoroughly mdesi in a G-string or a headhand, caneen- tions Of modssty came along later with more highly civilized conditions
 With the denning of many gar ments 10 show rank there also grew up the idea of adapting the garments to the materials readily available The Turkeman. for instance, rroba' hly likes his tall, shaggy, sheepskln shako, but he also wears this variety of hat because it ia one which the | great plains of Russian Central Asia 1 easily afford.
 Current history nearly always has | influenced the ornamentation of the body or of the costume. as typifed | by the sphinN-c caps worn by the later | Egyptians and the Tntankhamen and | nah -jong dresses in vogue within the last year or two.
 From a scientific standpoint, how ever. clothing and ornamentation of the body were the same in the begin ming. and though climate. during civilized times. has had marked in- 1 1uence on determining the weight and warmth of the clothing worn in various localities, we have one marked example today of the fact | that climate and geography were not the determining factors in the evo- luton of dress. The Arabs, who live within or in the immediate vicinity of the torrid zone, swath themselves in heavy flowing garments while the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego.
 tn tu nt,.,, aaI {, disagreeable. attach by cord across their bodies the skin of one animal which they shift from one side to the other with the direction of the wind.
 Complained of Too Many Clothes.
 Tn the early days when quantity of clothes meant rank and style, the desire to keep up with the Joneses' probably led some individuals to wear so many garments that they were weakening and deteriorating, for Croesus, who was the Rockefeller of his day, dissertated at length on the vice which was overtaking some of his acquaintances in letter to his friend Cyrus the Great of Persia.
 "One student of costumes of all ages has cleverly divided the develop ment of clothing into two classes the tropisal, based on the girdle, and the Arctic, based on the trouser, but even these divisions have their com pIexities, for the trouser may have been downward development of the i The Greeks and Romans l got a kick out of the fact that the t northern barbarians against whom T they fought wore trousers. It im- became new item which T they added to their fashion notes. '
 Where Women Wear Trousers. s
 But the girdle-trousers classifca- a ion has some othe confusing points T both the men and women wore s them. This Is still exemplifled in the men of today.
 "As countries deeloped and bound I ny lines became fixed, the national T character of the peoples got busy on .heir costumes, and we find the y spainard with a stiff ruff about his s 1eck and broad wings on his doublet, Il he German with bizarre slashings on 1is coat and sleeves, the Dutchman \ n somber black, and the Venetian n long flowing garments. Out of 'uch human frailties and foibles mixed with national pride, spiced U with climates and steamed with the U imagination of modern modistes, ..ii