Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-31

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NJ hair length ct present. Hair
4 dresserss have shown us how To
arrange sfert hair in as soft
am feminine q way ~ though 1t weye
long, and now 10 arrange longer hair
SO that 1t has the sleek trimness OF
short hair, and there the matter rests
for the present and may continue to
, rest for some time.
Just as 20 years ago men wore boards
or mustaches or went smooth sl1aven
without causing any special comment.
suppose the question was decided very
much by the contours Of the face Of the
man In question-just as the hair length
question is or should be settled now by
the proportions Of head and features.
The young man with a, ladylike dimple
in his chin naturally grew q beard
and the girl with bullet head lets her
hair grow, II she is wise, 50 that she
can increase the apparent length Of her
head by means Of chignon or bun at
the back.
Having disposed of the hair-length
ouestion-or having put 1t on the table
the really vital or at least disturbing
question as present Is one Of skirt
lengths. There are fashionable women
on both sides of the Atlantic who have,
1t would seem, taken VOWS not to lend
their influence to the movement for
longer skirts. Nm one seems to want
skirts that are actually longer all the
way round. and the uneven hen1lile is
too obviously compromise measure to
remain for long. More than one fashion
critic with whom have spoken feels
that the uneven skirt, sagging, dipping,
dropping, has already been carried bit
too far, and one fashion reporter in
France calls it not the uneven hemltne,
but the perturbed hemline..
. There are four possible outcones for
the skirt-length question.
We may 60 on with the uneven hem
line for some time until 1t seems as
natural to wear skirts that touch the
ankles here. and show the knees there
as 1t ever has been to wear them
straight. We may even wear skirts Of
street ensembles and tailored suits with
q downward dip at the back.
We may. give up the uneven hem
line save for an occasional draped
evening gown and adopt generally
longer skirt-midway between ankles
and knees. Skirts Of that length were
worn, first q little longer and then o
little shorter, for several years before
fashion finally had the courage to raise
them to the knees. The great OBJ.
stacle to that is that while once such
skirts seemed really short, now they
seem really long-and not long enough
to be graceful. Because We have so
recently worn skirts of that length
they seem dowdy and they are much
less becoming to most women than the
really short skirts.
The really long skirt-long enough
to be softly draped and graceful-is
from an artistic point of view prefer
able to the skirt that extends Just to
the thickest part of the leg and goes
no further. can imagine finding
much TO- admire in skirts of the cling
ing draped sort that women wore just
after the French revolution in France
There were long trains which women
carried over one arm Is they walked,
thus draping the light material so that
shapely ankles, and knees even, had
almost as much chance of being seen
Is with the recent very short skirts.
Something like these long draped
skirts might meet with approval, as far
as the appeal of the silhouette is con-
cerned, but who-wonen ask one an
other-wants TO burden herself with
skirts that twist around the legs, ham,
pering every step, and who wants to
carry q train, or run the risk Of doing
unpaid service for the city street,
sweeping department?
Trailing skirts, skirts that touch the
ground, skirts that are long enough to
dangle against ones shoes and ankles
on rainy day, can never come back