CHINESE COATS.

Have you an embroidered Chinese coat?

So has Mrs. Vanderbilt!

So has Isadora Duncan!

So has Mrs. Woodrow Wilson!

So has Sarah Bernhardt!

So has Mary Mac Lane!

So has Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Smith, and Mrs. Brown up and down
this city and up and down this country - and up and down Europe
as well.

All the women are having an embroidered Chinese coat or
something just like it. Some have Japanese ones and some have
Indian ones or Persian or Egyptian ones.

All of these coats are not alike. Oh no! They vary as
much as the women who wear them. The VARIETY of the EAST is
unlimited.

There are as many different kinds of embroidered coats
as there are different SOCIAL levels.

There are as many different kinds of coats as there are
different levels of TASTE.

There are the priceless mandarin coats and there are the
cheap machine ones of crude colors. The finest textures and
the coarsest.

There are coats that are coats and coats that are dressing
gowns and coats that are opera wraps.

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Oriental coats of every nature have invaded the lives of
women!

There is something so universal about the oriental coat
that it has become a kind of common band between ALL women,
no matter how varying their lives.

What is the meaning of it?

What is the oriental coat doing in the accidental life?

Is it following any law in nature?

Is it a straw showing which way the wind is blowing?

If it is, then the wind is blowing from EAST to WEST.
And the sun rises in the EAST and moves WEST.

In fact every day we hear something new that makes us
believe that ALL movement in nature is from EAST to WEST.
The last news we hear about it is in an article by Isabel Lewis
who is connected with the Nautical Almanac office of the Naval
Observatory. She tells of some discoveries which shake
LA PLACE'S famous "Nebural Hypothesis". One thing she says
is "that it has been found recently, that certain satellites of
the outer planets do not share the common direction of rev-
olution of the planets from WEST to EAST, but move in a re-
trograde motion around their primaries from EAST to WEST."

Now does this Chinese coat epidemic show us this same
movement?

Is the EAST coming to the WEST?

Has it come?

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It looks as though orientalism were the last acquired
characteristic of our race. Of the women - any way.

Look at the increase of oriental shops up and down
Fifth Avenue!

And not only up and down Fifth Avenue but all thro'
the side streets.

And not only thro' the city but thro' the state: and
through all the states: and through Europe.

Are we becoming orientalised? What is it - to become
orientalised?

Are all the "new" religions out of the EAST too?

Are YOU a neo-Buddhist without knowing it?

Have you a little Buddha in your home?

You'd be surprised to know how many women have!

It only began a few years ago, too!

The artists and poets brought it first. They are always
the first to arrive in any new movement.

They run ahead, the pioneers, to tell of the change that
is coming.

(Have you read Omar?)

The EAST was trickling slow into Europe while Queen Victoria
was alive and then the Russian Ballet came and actually danced
it in.

The RUSSIAN BALLET has done more to bring the EAST into
Europe than any other influence.

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Through that GATE Eastern clothes and headdresses and
jewelry - Eastern taste and Eastern ways have spread like
lava over Europe, and then of course we had to have it over
here.

Our shop windows began to look like Oriental Bazar's.

And the women of Europe and America began to look
like houris.

It has been a total color emigration. It has affected
our houses, our theatres and even our gardens. Our awnings
are orientalised!

There hasn't been a simple individual dressmaker or
slate producer who has had any influence of late years, whose
inspiration has not come out of the EAST.

Take Paul Poiret who has had as much influence on clothes
as any one man in Europe. His main model has been the Russian
Ballet.

He is a near-oriental dressmaker.

In fact he appreciated the Russian Ballet so completely,
and copied the clothes so well - adapting them for Europeans, -
that the Russian Ballet finally had HIM MAKE THEIR COSTUMES!

Clothes and colors are not all we have borrowed!

Women are using Eastern perfumes, powders and other
privileges.

Aren't YOU?

It has become almost necessary. The clothes demand it....

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So we have the increased use of cosmetics - the variously shaded powders and pastes.

The clothes NEED cosmetics to harmonize them with faces!

With the clothes and the cosmetics come the cigarettes.

The Lady's cigarette!

The Turkish cigarette!

The perfumed cigarette!

The initialed gold tipped cigarette!

The Lady's perfumed, Turkish, initialed, goldtipped cigarette!

You can say that perhaps this has come about because the world is opened up and communication of all kinds is possible.

Barriers are down and locomotion is easy. But does the WEST go to the EAST?

The only thing we have given them is the POWER to reach us.

They are using our science - our arms - our methods of travel to come and conquer us.

Have they already conquered YOU?

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