Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
LEG-O-MUTTON SLEEVES FOR Girl S.
TOOTHPICK-TOED SHOES FOR MEN
FASHIONS OF YORE, AND OF TO-DAY

pocket in the tail, thereby furnishing
a cushion effect unless the wearer
avoided wrinkles when he sat by
avoiding sitting upon the tail One
can visualize the general average of
men of the street wearing that type
of coat and to the men who have
long since been wearing the common
sense business type Of coat, they cause
broad grins just from memory.
The greatest advance has been made
in the styles for women, as seen by
those who study them reflectively
Comparing the comfortable gown of
today with those of the age of corSets
and their accompanying tortures, even
the makers of corsets and hairpiNs
who lost large fortunes because the
women woke up, are inclined to accept
the Situa tion philosophically. The
women's hour glass days are over.
In the days of the old-faShioned COR
set, the waist of woman looked like
an iSthmus threatened with complete
elimination by the use of whalebone
in stout canvas and good strings. The
writer recalls one of the most ludri-
crouS makeupS that the late Eddie
Foy, long popular comedian, ever used
in his so years on the stage It was
in the role he played in that musical
extravaganza, "Bllebeard" which was
at the Iriquois theatre in Chicago when
the great catastrophe costing 200 lives
in flames occurred He appeared in
female impersonation in which his
corset effect was emphasized and sang
jingle, I'm Poor and Lonely
Maid" and after singing a verse, ne
would take a tug at the corset and
while he probably never had in mind
being prophet, he growlEd about
women wearing corsets He lived to
see the day when women did not wear
'em.
AS TO the use of hairpinS, there is
more or less in the shops that hint
of the passing of hairpins, for bObbed
hair has apparently come to stay along
with the freedom from the whalebone
straight jackets. 1t has broug n t
presence. The broad-guaged struc-
lures that women used to regard as
stylish will still have their day, but
it will be with the hats of Martha
Washington and Dolly Madison in the
Smithsonian institution. Those old
time styles were even more exagger-
ated in size than any that have been
seen in the last third of a century.
Like the dress of today, there is o
scantiness about the hat that marks
it. The scantiness has added charm
rather than lesSened it.
The women's shoes have gone more
and more to the extreme in the high
heel, but even in their present type,
the girls can go along at a speed that
makes it hard for the men to keep
up and the girls appear to like them.
AS for beauty, there is all to be said
for the present-day shoes. That may
have been intensified to degree by
the fact that there is usually about
oh, well, several inches of attractive
hosiery in sight which forms a sort
Of background to the shoe and it takes
a good piece of leather worked out
along artistic lines to go with that
sort of setting.
BY comparison, the styles shown in
the shops today make many of the
creations of the former years look
cheap The style, the shades the COM
mon sense back of the patterns all
favor the present day and even the
old timers would be unwilling, if it
were possible, to turn back the calen-
dar even for the short period of Is
years.