OUR SPRING FASHION SHEET 1
History of Gowns From the Fig Leaf
To the Transparency of Today
Sketched By Our Famous
/. Authority on Style,
, Mile. Marie
(Proper Gander)
Before discussing this subject, we
must first know of its beginning.
Eve, who was the first woman God
put into the world, was the first wom
an to be clothed. The occasion for
this was her eating thi forbidden"
fruit, and bringing sir into the world.
After this sin she and her husban l,
Adam clothed themselves: Eve's first
garment being made of fig leaves.
The first garments after those of
Adam and Eve were very loose ones
which seemed merely to be thrown
around the body rather than styled.
But, as the world began to advance
in civilization, its styles of dress also
advanced in material and adornment
The majority of people were neatly
dressed yet not extravagantly for a
while. Let us look back at Our pilgrim
ihothers who came to America, and
see the sipleness of their dress. These
ladies wore black dresses with large
white collars and cuffs modestly de
signed. They also wore very plain
white caps.
Let us now look back into the age
of our grandmothers when we con*
sider the styles of dress at that time,
we would think them very queer as
compared with our modern styles.
The women in this age wore very
long dresses with full skirts. Many
dresses of which there ' were long
trains. Our grandmothers also wore
their dresses very high at the neek
Their evenings gowns were peatly de
singed with many ruffles and frills,
ribbons and laces.
Since this time the dress of woman
has greatly changed and in this pres
ent, year nineteen twenty-one, there
are such styles before us which were
never dreamed of a half century ago.
Women have begun to think that
dress is the very purpose of their ex
istence; and that they must be ex
travagantly clothed. I do not criticise
the desire of a woman to look well
and be becomingly dressed, for such
things she owes to herself, her fami
ly, and her friends. But to be becom
ingly dressed does not mean that one
must be continually buying and spend
ing beyond her means.
Since we have said that style of
dress has greatly changed, let us
cbmpare a few fashions of nineteen
twenty-one .with those of fifteen six
ty. Instead of skirts sweeping the
ground and gathering up countless
germs, we must now regard the pres
ent day skirts, exposing the knee
even; for the stockings are being
rolled below the knee, and with the
dress above, it is quite a picture to
behold. There is a change from those
dresses with high collars choking^the
>vearer most uncomfortably to those
of the present day, so?low that they
. carcely merit the naipe of a waist.
From the neat and modest evening
gowns, we must note the change to
those with no backs at all and noth
ing to support the fronts, so that the
; mystery is how they remain in posi
tion. Oftimes we see ladies hobbling
around as though they might be phy
sically affected. There are those who
wou d not be able to run in case of
life for death. When investigating
what do we find to be the cause of
all this? Simply the change of fashion
For those very wide skirts of our
grandmothers have changed to those
so narrow that one has to walke as a
Chinese. Last but hot least of these
changes that I shall mention is the
change from those manifold petticoats
of. o r grandmothers to the present
fashion of none at all and gar
ments so sheer that everybody's eyes
are X-Rays.
Wiiat is the meaning of all these
, imrnn ;est garbs with which the ladies
of r ieteen twenty-one are adorning
> themselves? It is simply that after a
long age of improvement and better
ing of the fashions, they are' begin
ning to decrease arid become inferior
to those which have been., If the wo
men continue to indulge in such
styles as are now before them; the!
beauty of dress will be gone and the
styles will gradually grow worse, so
that the coming generations will not
know what styles are considered (by
wise persons) modest and what im
modest; what decent and what inde
cent; what styles become a woman
and what do not. If the women do not
act for themselves to try to throw
\
off these evil fashions, I fear it will
be left to the control of the men and
laws w'll soon be passed by congress
and the legislatures forbidding such
things.
?Maria Neuffer.
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