Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-19

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of nearly every classical school. For
me the early Italians are put out of
focus by PicaSSo and Renoir the seven
tenth century Dutch by Gauguin. So
brims are made to look artificial and
meticulous by the trif1es in worSted or
antelope felt that emphasize the line
of our new figures. AT a distance every
woman looks better in small hat. Rich
relations are likely to be topheavy; they
spread unduly the result of good
living. SO do the hats of mems dreams.
It's ali very well to say they frame the
face They do, but you can't detach
face from the rest OF the body and
send it floating about in brim while
the torso walks neatly by itself If you
consider the whole silhouette it must
logically taper toward the head A spear
is much more graceful object than a
poleax.
This tenuity-is there such a word?-
of hats is possibly due to the modern
passion for self-revelation, or to the
national economy crusade. It's good
for the hair. 1t engenders self-respect,
for one can be untidy as one likes
under brim, but with the newest model
poised precariously above one temple
every hair has to be in place. Personally,
I imagined that permanent waves were
the only ones of which everybody APP
proved; they entail no seasickness. The
result is definitely constructive. I believe
most women would place their inventor
on level with Newton and probably
some distance ahead of Nine Curie, for
permanent waves have had far more
beneficial effect upon the average female
than radium.
REFUSE, therefore, to argue with Bev-
erley Nichols about hairdressing or
makeup, because it is obvious that the
vast majority of women have become
better looking-and consequently better
tempered-since cosmetics were included
in the routine of their daily life. A
Frenchman once said to lovely lady
who disapproved of lipstick:
Madame, when you come out to
lunch looking natural Eau natureD it is
as if you had forgotten part of your
dress"
I agree with him, and 7 think that
all husbands who pine for implanted
wives should be taken at their word and
forced to go about with women as nature
reprehensively made them: Faces shin
ing, color patchworked in the wrong
places, eyelashes negligible, eyebrows
sprawling, hair lying lank in those dis
tasteful wisps SO familiar before waves
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or heliotrope with a bristle or two
sprouting at the corners. Such used to
be the appearance of the average
middle-aged woman who had not been
introduced to art. Now, there aren't
any middle-aged women. 1t would be
interesting to speculate on the effect
such an elimination would have on our
character
Beverley is ineensed by the glitter
and the tinkle of synthetic jewelry
What is she like?" I asked when was
being taken to a garden party given in
Paris by one of the last generation of
RothSchildS. "A general store (magazin
de quincaillerie)" retorted my compan-
ion, who, like Mr. Nichols, disapproved
of bracelets made of wood or milk or
plaster or celluloid, of glass beads filled
with water in which china fishes float,
of pearls whose size and color would
make oysters go on strike, and of neck
laces which, worn as chains, would pro-
duce a new society for the prevention of
cruelty to the fashionable, and of all
the trumpery novelties by which women
exDreSS their kinShi0 with ruonkevS and
ostriches and jackdaws. The "bit of
something bright apparently appeals
irresistibly to my sex-or is it that we