Evening star., 1926-11-21
NV NARY MARSHALL.

n n oRA1ISTS cry aloud agains'
N N the brevity and sn1eagerness
N of the clothes that moderf
VA women wear. They say thai
in civilfzed times wonner
have never before gone about wear
ing so shockingly little. Our frocks
are scant and short and our lingerie
Is marvelously sheer and light.
And vet, there never was time
when fashion provided wemen with
such comfortable. warm clothing n
cold weather Our hats really cover
our heads providing ample protec'
ton It'd fofeheads and ears. Coat col
lars protect and give WARMTH with
out being tight or uncomfortabie.
We wear coats OF fur or fur
lined cloth that are 20 cut and fash.
toned as 10 give ample warmth with.
ont heavy weight. The fashion for
short skirts and nude stockings has
left legs and ankles shiyering on cold
Winter days But even this has been
remedied. II h woman now suffers
from cold ankles ii is because she
wants to-f1ot because fashion makes
her. She may solve her problem very
easilv by wearing flesh cplpreds under.
stockings or invisible CATERS beneath
her fine silk stockings and no one
will be the wiser. For sports wear
she NAV don WOODEN stockings or
socks. and for the tailored ensemble
she may wear silk and, wool stock.
ings. Real CATERS have also come
back into fashion, and Redfern OF
Paris, they say. has made CATERS OF
cloth to match the Winter ensembles.
There sis really nothing the least
bit bulky or clumsy about the new
cold-weather ensembles. Everything
is trim and compact without heinK
at all tight or constrained. Clothes
no longer are acceptable unless they
are entirely wearab BILE, comfortable
and graceful. III there are women
who go about shivering in cold
weather because they feel that they
are somehow serving fashion by wear
ing fewer clothes than are needed
for perfect warmth, you will doubt.
less And that they are not those who
really keep abreast with the demands
and possibilities of present-day dress.
To suffer from the cold for the
sake or fashion, letting pride keep
us WARM when clothes do not. is
quite out of date. To be a martyr.
even for tn1hions sake, Is no longer
smart The fashionable posture is
chalance, and one can no more as.
sumo that posture when suffering
from the cold than when laced into
an Is-inch corset There are, of
course, some fashionable women who
wear rather thin clothes all Winter
women who go about with nothing
between their bare ankles and the
zero atraosoilere hut cobwebbv
lEyer of silk stocking--but fashion
does not make this demand of them.
and the chances are that they are
warm .biooded creatures who suffer no
harm from such exposure.
Red Indians endured cold weather
In very scAnt attire, and one of them
when asked by a white man how
they did so explained that the Indian
was all face. So with some modern
women. If not "all face at least
their legs and ankles seem to have
acquired the resistance to cold that
Is a characteristic usually only Of the
face. But again remember that fashion
does not demand such hardihood.
There are CATERS, visible and other
boots for those who want to wear
them.
Judging from the clothes we are
wearing and buying. one might predict
that this was going to be q very cold
Winter. When squirrels and other
furred beasts put on heavy coats at
the outset Of the season, farmers tell
you that 1t is going to be very cold.
Why shouldn't we be able to tell as
much by the clothes that women
wear
Woolen materials are used far more
abundantly than last season at this
time for frocxs. There really is q
tendency among the younger Ameri-