Evening star., 1928-06-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES e. TRACEWELL

tions thought or we're told were of in. i
portance to their charm. Today the
world has at last got back to the old
Greek idea that the lady herself is ehe
most charming part OF the ensemble.
! Hence we have dresses, hats and so on
| eve almost wrote that go on) which fit.
No more does lady seem to be wad-
/ ing around in her clothes. AS the Lord
made her, so she appears in public
well. more or less. This Is not only
economical and more free; above all, 1t
adheres TO the blessed criterion Of SIM
| plicity.
Yet 1t is astonishing to the mere male
| observer what wealth of styliStic
! tricks can be involved in a simple bit
| of cloth no more than three yards or
/ so long.
Men may pride themselves on the fact
| that men are doing the designing for
| these simple, stylish clothes, The in
spiration for them. as they say, comes
| from the masculine mind, which about
| 1910 began to get wise to the supreme
| fact that women were much overdrcssed.
| Simplicity began to be the watch
word Of all the coutouriers from the
Seine to the Hudson river. We like to
| think that they were influenced by the
women themselves, who were in rebel
! lion at last against too much clothes.
Sweet simplicity!
| Surely the angels in Heaven wear no
more clothes than the modern girl, for
the good and simple reason, as Penrod
said, that enough is enough.
Out of cumbersomeness has come
| freedom; from intricateness. ugly and
washer -Womanish, springs the chic $50
| they call it, frock of the moment.
Ladies, we men take of our ugly
hats to you.
What of the future?
The solution offered by the comic
magazines will not do In field where
progress goes hand in hand with SIM
plicity surely there must be an artistic
end in view.
The clothing Of women, II one may
get a vision of the days to come, will
be essentially like the dresses of today,
only more So II you get what we mean.
Hats, for instance.
There will be large hats and small
hats, but instead of the hats being
dictated from the so-called fashion
centers" the girls who wear them will
have a say in the matter.
Just as the blond girl must learn the
essential trick of wearing costumes
which accent her dominant color
EOIU--1O oil NOitIClA Wl4l AIdANC bllaS AZ Ao
the girl under the hat who counts, not
the hat itself.
Gone are-and will continue to be
the feathers and fuss of olden times. In
their place remain-and will continue
to remain--the hat of lines, dominant
and characteristic.
Cut, drape-these have taken the
place of and will the more continue to
usurp the place formerly held by the
tricks of ill-bred men who designed
clothes on the principle that the cos
tunes were more important than the
people who were TO wear them.
The principle Of the complete outfit.
from hat TO shoes. will grow in impor-
tance, so that lack OF completeness
viii be the crowning sin In the days to
come, when ladies will be better dressed
than ever.
II there Is any one reading here who
believes that men do not notice what
women wear, we can only refer him TO
the wise words OF Julian Green In his
new novel, THE Closed Garden" who
makes one of his characters say that a
man may not notice the most beautiful
dress. but he invariably realizes when
something is wrong in woman's ap-
pearance.