Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-20
THIS AND THAT
BY C. f. TRACEwELL.

" ould do for him.
He liked a girl
| Who would be a pal,
| regular fcIlers
| Regular gal.
| She had to have
An angels fire
| To be the gal
| OF Tige Mcclure.
| The Lady of Tige Mcclure.
] The hero of the above ballad would
have been suited easily in Washing
ton. For him would have existed
neither the problem Of the mariner
cast on an island with but one maid
or the puzzle confronting the lone
man at seashore of girls.
Washington young people of the
feminine gender offer a brilliant,
| fower-garden girlscape to the OBJ
| server. Let no man say the shoes do
not fit. Who is there who is not in
| terested in girls?
AS for most of us, we are frankly
or the persuasion of Tige Mcclure,
and the older we get the more pretty
race appeals to us, SO many facets
has one of these bright diamonds.
| The very latest phase in the Wash
ington girls dress. to be seen on +
street in increasing numbers every
day, is the modified Empire, or some
! thing like that, a dress that has a
high waist line, sloping up in the back
Poiret, the Partisan dressmaker,
would not recognize that description,
but my readers will This old-new
design is being affected by the So
called younger set" the subfap-
pers and the nappers.
| 1t has slipped into town quietly,
flrst one dress being seen, until now
scores or them are ambulating around
| on + street and the other thorough
fares Of our great and glorious city.
| The dresses with the hand painted
| flowers down the front have had their
brief-very brief-inning. Now it is
the turn of this high wasted gown,
which runs back to the Empire. ia
nous in the history of politics as well
| as dress
The Empire, it will be recalled, had
It's genesis in the nightgown. Getting
| right down to the brass tacks of
Women's dress, there never was a
moro beautiful, becoming or more
modest dress than the nightgown. It's
extreme simplicity is charming, while
| 1t is so natural that it charms from
| that angle, too.
| 1t was the basis of the graceful
| vi eeh costume, natural SIM
| plicity in costume, than which there
has been nothing prettier down the
ages. Come right down to it, have
| mems costumes made any improve
| 1nent on the toga, ETC.? Did not Julius
( caesar look every inch the we'll
| dressed man?
| X X X
This latest in girls dresses. then. is
simply nightgown for street wear,
1 II n In 10Th, l.,
klnk introduced by sloping upward in
the back
| designing women's dresses must be
fascinating occupation, something
IKE playing chess or checkers. The
game is always the same, the fun
| comes in the new combinations that
| arise at every minute
| Let waist line down-and the
women buy it. Hike it up few
ihches-and they buy that, too. The
| mystery of fashion still has the world
in its grip. despite the tremendous
advances made by women in simple
| lty of costume.
| Let no one mistake me here-I
think that woman. in some ways, has
evolved for herself during the past
ten years better, more natural and
etter-looking costume, after GER
| tam standard, than man has been
| II,
| The Partisan designer, Paul Poiret
| mas been quoted recently as giving I'D
all hope for men as dressers, declar-
| ing that they dress like clerks" and
| refuse his ideas of more ample and
| cloaklike garments
Honestly, there is something TO
| that. For long time it has been the
custom to think of men as being he
!ohd the trouble of styles and fash
| ions, and that is so, in a sense, but in
| getting his standard business suit
man certainly has tied himself around
! with belts and garters and collars and
lncased himself in tubes, when mayb
he might do better for himself and
| the passing world.
Your Happier, in this 7apper's era
mas standardized costume of her
own that is mighty good looking
that is simplicity itself and that is
eminently fitting in the sense of be-
| ing proper. Most of the women who
violate the canons of modesty in
dress are well over the f1apper age
II you do not believe this, make a
note to watch for it next time Won
| are downtown.
The next striking thing about our
sirls-a whole city full-is the num-
Der of bobbed heads one sees.
1t is interesting to note the in
crease in this fashion of hair dress
| ing during the past year, and wonder
whether it will keep up. The girls
declare it will. They say it is more
| comfortable, easier to handle and
much cleaner.
One man, who did not think much OF
bobbed hair, but did not make any out
cry when his wife got her hair bob
bed, after being an interested OBJ
server at close range of this method,
came out with the following obser-
| vations:
Honestly. I have been converted
| AT first 1t seemed a bit unwomanly to
me. 1 guess 1 was a slave to the old
| conventions. My subconSicious mind
just wouldn't let me like it.
But now l am all for it. This is one
| case in which familiarity does no,
breed contempt, nor distance make
the heart grow fonder. ] find myself
fancying bobbed hair more and more
Let me Whisper-women with long
| hair now strike me as looking messy
all that useless stuff coiled up around
| their heads"
When it comes to beauty of face and
figure, Washington girls do not have
to take off their hats to any girls in
the world
This is true, perhaps partly because
| there are so many girls here from
all parts of the United States, but
being here, Washington claims them
all.
Many mere men, returning from
their vacations. are finding this true
Go to the seashore, or to the noun
tains, go any place, anywhere, then
come back to Washington.
The first thing you will notice is the
girls. They are pretty, well fed, well
dressed, well groomed, much better
looking in evsry way than the girls
at the place you left behind you.
The washington girl has been de-