Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-26
New 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 chapea x, I've been doing a
bit Of inquiring Oh the subject Of
how things got that way.
Several Of my Fifth Avenue mind
ed girl friends. who usually rush
to my rescue when matters get 200
feminine for sae 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
nat has been going about claiming
credit for the new vogue.
The most popular version going
about Manhattan Is TO the effect
that q French gentleman, who Is one
OF the most expert buyers for OF
the swankiest New York stores, went
oTe 10 Paris to get some new sea
Sonal styles and found : 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-
gested as having possibilities.
And-preStOi Here they are.
This to be sure. IS but one YER
sion. But whatever variation on the
story l have heard, 1t appears to
be generally admitted that the idea
vas conceived in America, SUCCESS
ted TO Paris and Immediately snap
ped up. More Of that sort Of thing
goes on than most folk realize. I
was informed. BY which l mean that
original style novelties are created
right here IN the 57th street belt.
whispered to someone in Paris and
later appear as Paris creations.
Already some Of the lesser psy-
biologists are claiming that the chic
and ultra-feminine headgear will
have a definite effect upon those
rebellious young women we've been
hearing about for the past feW
years. A visitor TO my desk this
very day predicted that the girlies
will try to live up to 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 50 far as
10 claim that a mild admission OF
defeat has been made; that the
gals are preparing To lean on the
mere males Once more, will con-
cede themselves to be the weaker
sex and will seek that feminine pro-
lection that grandma used TO tell
about. All OF which will, quite
naturally, ~recreate something of the
old chlvalrous spirit in our young
men. And everything viii be ro-
mantle, elegant and SWELL
DGt a o-A1AAl hAADM dDDuL AllAIkS
like that
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 hat 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 so simple
and are preparing 10 slide back to
more comfortable eXistences.
All Of which sounds fairly prsba-
bic insofar as a certain percentage
Of women are concerned. Or what
do YOU think?
Which rc Ninds me-whatever did
become Of the suffragettes? Il still
have some old cartoons in A scrap
book showing them in mems trou-
sers raising a lot Of ruction.