Show 0 aro are fashions in dress nit an L f r 01 0 i in n il A e ex x of intelligence fashions l show sh 0 our u r jer of a lack of f it not I 1 intellectual n t e 11 e C t al de development ew 0 P ment that clial there lre ire nolo not plenty of reasons sons given both for the by H HAROLD ROL D H co CORYELL R y L B boton boston mass M da S difference in fashions from i fy one season to the next neif but for the peculiar fashions of d different nations but too many reasons spoil the argument especially when contradictory reasons are given for the same thing for instance the chinese insist upon their women being covered even to the tips of their fingers for modestas mode sake and to lessen carnal interest while the turk hides bides all but the eyes to create il R mystery and arouse interest saying that we westerners have so many divorces because we tire of seeing seeing too much of each other wo claim to wear clothes for the same reasons as the oldness chinese for propriety why do our men then not dress like monks and our women like nuns instead of indulging in quarterly changes of fashion which ch serve many ministers with matter for sermons on salaciousness all this to say nothing of the shock european europe an evening gowns g owns give the modest japs who think nothing n of mixed bathing in tile the nude some like the eskimo wear clothes for warmth there do not seem to be many changes in fashion among them so I 1 suspect their fashions of being truly an index of intelligence on the other liand hand I 1 am told that the he sturdy of the almost frigid tip of south america wear only finery and remove it when bad weather might ruin i it j the more I 1 read of the fashions in dress of various races the more II 11 1 l am perplexed by the reasons men give for the clothes they wear there thera lare are so many reasons that none seem to ta indicate intelligence on the part the giver j but these are only the reasons they give give and we all know tb that atille ho reasons we give are seldom tile the real ones if the reasons man gives for fashions in clothes speak poorly for his claim to be a rational creature still less do some of ahe reasons which we find are at the bottom ok of the vital questions as to how bow far from the ground a skirt shall hang to how many indies inches it shall be at the bottom what the prevailing color shall be tic etc or whether the trousers men wear after the sunset gun shall have braid at the scam and pockets at the side and whether decorum above the waist shall be preserved by a two button pearl gray vest or by a four button white one previously soaked in cornstarch paste the changes in fashions do show intelligence however in in their makers wot not because they make clever fashions fasli ions but because they convince people eliat the to show they have plenty of bf money is to spend it all on clothes some people judge a mans purse by whether ho he wears a single breasted coat or a double breasted one |