Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-21
Whom Do Women Dress
 For," "Why Does Peacock
 Preen Feathers" "-Answer


 women dress for?"
 Here is question that has never been solved and perhaps never will be-the reason being that women can never be taken generally. Some women dress to please their hus- bands; some dress to please other women's husbands; some dress to spite other women and some dress to satisfy their own sweet selves.
 Why does a peacock preen his tail feathers? That's the answer.
 We are not interested in why wo- men dress" but in the fact that they do dress better today than ever be- fore in the history of the world Fabrics have never been so beauti- l full and the intricicies of gownmak- ing have been developed until clothes have ceased to be mere gar ments of utility, but have become objects of art.
 The best dressed women today are not the light-headed heartbreakers of motion picture vamp style. An no The best dressed women are those whose husbands have nice fat pocketbooks and equally we'll dress ed are the money sisters.
 The vamp is seldom dressed in good taste. Not so long ago every small town had a few females who out-dressed the other women of the town and startled them with their eccentric hats and frocks., their white fox furs and silken hose. Wo- men on upper Main Street gossiped about them but never spoke to them.
 It was not always that their nor als were at fault, but nice women didn't approve of their stylish clothes
 Where are these small town vamps today? It's the self-same nice wo- men who have laid them on the l CTS wife and the bakers wife have grown to be the style leaders of the towns. Women who seemed middle aged ten years ago have blossomed out into fascinating thirty-five- year-olds. And it's modern dress ing and cosmetics that have made this possible.
 Noi We are not interested in why women dress" but we certain ly get a kick out of the fact that they DO DRESS, and rreen and furnish our streets with silken ankles, roughed lips and beauty!
 Married women are seldom jealous of the clothes of their married wo men. It's the single girls whose slenderness and modish clothes make them wish they didn't have to div idle their spending money between the household needs and their own desires. Whether to buy new cur tains for the house or some new feminine furbelow in a constant bug bear to the married women ot llm- |ited allowance One hesitates to suggest that curtains should take second place. since most men adore pretty homes, but a pretty home with a poorly dressed mistress isn't always a success, whereas a we'll dressed wife can cover a multitude of household sins by appearing lovely in the eyes of her husband. Somehow the average woman of to- dav manages to keep the homefires turning we'll enough and to keep beautiful at the same time.
 We speak of married women and of girls when we speak of fashions. There seems to be none of the women left who were formerly termed "old maids" And the req son we have so few unmarried women of middle age in clothes, bobbed hair and cosmetics! Added to this is the fact that women no longer deem it proper to sit at modern girl gets out into the world, becomes a part of 1t and, of It's fashion, and makes herself inter- esting in mind and in dress to all mankind. Coy and corrected ladies are no more and the modern female is indeed more deadly than the male" when it comes to plumage! 1 *
 l Paul Poiret advances the theory that women will eventually wear trousers. He claims that the simpll- fcation of female costume IS lead- 1 ing to the wearing of trousers. The masculine trend in bobbed hair cuts, paiamas, knickers, etc., might point that way, but if trousers become a feminine style, it's cinch they'll ! be short ones, as women will never accept style which does away with the showing of their silken ankles. Trousers are bit too mod