Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-26
Mew York
Letter

NEW YORK-What with all u
young women, ~middle-aged women
and even elderly women threatening
to wear those tilted. fetchingly coy
and quantity old-fashioned Empress
Eugene chapearx, I've been doing a
bit Of inquiring on the subject OF
how things got that way.
Several OF my Fifth Avenue mind
ed girl friends, who usually rush
10 my rescue when matters get 100
feminine for she likes OF me, have
told me in this instance they can be
OF little help. Ii seems that every
one who ever thought OF making a
hat has been going about claiming
credit for the new vogue.
The most popular version going
about Manhattan Is TO the effect
that a French gentleman, who Is one
OF the most expert buyers for one Of
the swankiest New York stores, went
over to Paris TO get some new sea-
sOnal styles and found a paucity
Of original ideas. He did find a ten
dency among the French artists to-
ward a Renaissance OF the extremely
feminine and "ladylike" modes.
In conservation with a famous
French style creator, this Manhat-
tan buyer commented that he
though revivals Of historic styles
might fit well into the current
scheme Of things. AS the talk con-
tinued, the Second Empire was sug-
geStCd as having possibilities.
And-preStol Here they are.
This to be sure, Is but one YER
sion. But whatever variation on the
story / have heard. it appears to
be generally admitted that the idea
was conceived in America. SUCCESS
ted To Paris and Immediately snap
ped up. More Of that sort Of thing
goes on than most folk realize. /
was informed. BY which / mean that
original style novelties are created
right here in the 57th street belt.
whispered to someone III Paris and
later appear as Paris creations.
Already some OF the lesser pSy-
biologists are claiming that the chic
and ultra-feminine headgcar will
have a definite effect upon those
rebellious young women we've been
hearing about for the past feW
years. "A visitor 10 my desk this
very day predicted that the girlies
will try 20 live UP 10 their hats
or something like that.
/ In fact l keep hearing comments
! that this return to the gentler
aspects OF the garb Is the beginning
Of the end Of the militant feminis-
tic spirit. In fact one figure IN A
three-sided argument went so far as
10 claim that n mild admission Of
defeat has been made: that the
gals are preparing 10 lean on the
mere males once more, viii con-
cede themselves 20 be the weaker
sex and will seek that feminine pro-
lection that grandma used 10 tell
about. All Of which Will, quite
naturally, recreate something OF the
old chiyalrous spirit in our young
men. And everything will be TO-
mantle, elegant and SWELL
But I should know about things
like thati
I might add however, that the
more romantic Optimists blame this
and a great many other things. on
the long period Of depression. They
hold that the women who went
forth TO find a place in the mans
world rode on the crest OF a f-iend-
~ wave. Now, when the struggle
Is more intense and difficult. they
find that things are not 50 simple
and are preparing TO slide back 70
more comfortable ~eXistences.
All OF which sounds fairly PRADA
bic insofar as a certain percentage
AZ women are concerned. Or what
do YOU think?
Which re Kinds me-whatever did
become OF the suffraFettes? II still
have some old cartoons in a scrap
book showing them III mems trou-
gprc raising "a lnt M ~~rYr+tpU