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J I s. s iI 0 a r 1 f t rt 4 r H f h 1 gar F L r r r r rz jf 1 k z v s- s 4 a r The Stage Is So Infatuated with Backs That They Are Emphasized on Every mi Possible Occasion b. b t HE recent action of or the vicar of THE I Dame dA nieres a n pilgrimage e church near Laval in France an action based on a p pastoral pastoral pas pas- s- s toral letter Jetter from rom Cardinal Amette Ainette o of Paris sharply calls attention to certain tendencies of fashion which have haye been debated throughout the tho world The notice posted by the vicar reads like this i. i a rt Entry into thus this tl s church is forbidden toi tot to t i women wearing scaring necked low dresses es or those not reaching I ung d down own to th the e an ankles kl es U rs r's t So far as America is concerned shortened s skirts skills after first producing a shock have come com cometo cometo to be reco recognized as ls s at least a matter of opinion Thc They have haye been praised for their freedom freedom certainly they ore are not to be compared in iii in this particular par- par j. j titular with the aw awful ul trailing skirts of or ten or twelve years ago Hygienically they have been praised qui quite e ardently And moralists have said rN that it is well to dismiss the old superstition that tha the feminine ankle and even the feminine calf is wicked and unmentionable i. i Excusing the Short Skirts r rL L d It has inde indeed d been maintained that the cause causer cause r of morality has been een served by short skirts since f cert certain In sensualities associated on the stage and andY andoff Y off with lifted Jilted skirts have ha now no nothing to go so on The feminine ankle is comfort comfortably taken for v granted ranted cT But no such reassuring reassuring- argument can can can-be be adi ad- ad i arc d as s to the denuding of or the upper part o of J the body and the gradual lowering of or the upper L bodice line has been watched d with apprehension bosom al Decency fixed a limit Umit across the bosom bosom bosom-al alv al- al 0 v though hough Vs have extended absurdly low and Jow-and and j rr there here was nothing left for extremists but to cutaway cut a way away the back after stripping the shoulders s. s The Thc stage stag t the moving pictures the fashion shows are arc exhibiting women in In shockingly 0 A C attic nr f n e At A 1 4 tl 1 n r ll l.-ll scanty iI to- to A. A i. i m L' L luu ie opera up in Il ballrooms and at rece recep these things are ale being worn Churches may be closed to to in women too short skirts Ji censors f may cut scenes In m movies mO and d per performances m may a be closed w where ere th clothes clothe or lack tact of f clothes clothe e 9 fa make the audience blush for shame but what is 1 to be done about worsen women in the social ocial world I r an and d dat v J r. r at private functions how arc are the they to be stopped stopped A taking aking off of any more draperies I 9 How is this to be bo stopped 1 rejoined Artist i jf Charles Ft Fullop lop when asked the question Wh Why simply show an any woman that she is making a di dig dis gusting busting spectacle of herself that 8 she e is is' Waking making herself ugly instead of be beautiful and you will mill coon Eoon stop the trouble And I sa say trouble advised advised- iy for it is trouble that these women arc are getting getting Y themselves es into The They ar arc aro cultivating d' d diseased t p t i t minds minds un unconsciously oll perhaps but nevertheless ne less fc cu cultivating th them m. m You cannot tell e me that thing but a diseased mind could create such any re re- res s V gali Salias s' s as we c see in certain lin stage creations esp fc daily f Jv i r The Artists Artist's Point of View vV 5 t I l have hs been in m man many any foreign countries t k art artis is old In tho those f c countries h everything has been o tr tried cd Generally they f follow along the lines of ot otA A I b beauty in their auty fashions I am not a fashion k artist as os know and therefore you v J Artist d do o not understand under stand how one arrives at fashioning clothes But Bat f. f i being an artist the dress of women touches mo in a very sensitive part of my mind for unless 1 the dress is harmonious and beautiful it 18 is a 1 j i barbarism J r v As ClAs I was saying abroad they have tried every 4 V thing and once in a while they break out into R the thc most freakish of or styles This they can stand fi r for tor fundamentally they love the beautiful America Ameri Amen t ca ea should not experiment t in n things She Sher r Jr t 1 f must mint first get her strong background of an ap- ap l 7 1 i V. V 1 J i 1 1 J t j One Thing Seems to Be Certain Cei iain a j r y t r al ly Backs Cant Can Be Displayed a aOne y V I Much More Completely and There Are Aie r an ere l' l JA i 6 f r I S f Signs o of Real l r r j b Jf 9 L o rb S 'S SV l r L' 4 1 Chas p V i Y 1 aK a t fi 1 t Rebellion I- I Artist h s r J Sti a Gl E yf 7 r l i r 1 r ji C r tJ r r r 41 U y J. Y e er X f 1 Vy 1 G r 1 1 V- V r 4 i e eZ Y N NY TV r i E rt r Y Y AJ v cry fl- fl l r V 4 f c t f i Mn tt t W r rl a 71 7 1 F y re r r i t I Y T 5 a u h hu t h r r Z y J r y S' S PI 1 r hs r Y W w t I a N 1 1 r 1 r ref A I r l 1 w ti fi Y wv r t r y 9 A y Tr d' d ik e r e ti f 7 C el r y J r r A y 91 f r l Ir 1 I n rI R r t f it T Tr L 6 Y i it y i r Ir if N f 1 3 r F 41 ly f ISS A st 4 a ryA s 4 r 1 sy r j 2 vs S II v s I TO i- i i G L G if M. M iy Ci t y A i A r b Gr iV feiA r 1 I r G y t rw 7 t f I 1 Ly f K r ir J y Nh 4 i s Af t K 7 V. V A P f J 1 f 3 0 VT 2 S Kirf A A Rebuke from i W i J J V VS if S the Church t. t Notice I po posted by the VI Vicar 1 y sr t gf r Notre ce Dame dA f r ln In In I France A Ar 4 Entry r into tl this is church r is forbidden to women y s fR t f r Ir w r wearing necked low t t dresses or those not a reaching achin down ow to the ankles J i 2 1 j Here Is the Fashionable Back Effect the Effect the Waistline 0 p Limit That Was So t f i Long Threatened and Now Has j i fir fry JiT t D Y f Mf u. u l fir A c A y F FA r A Parisian Effect Illustrating the Ex E- Extreme of the with a To the Knees Brevity at the Hem r i l ft t Here Full Fun and Charming Drapery Is Accompanied by Bare Ankles of beauty This she is obtaining but for her aesthetic growth she ought ought to leave the decadent de things alone You know the world worM of or art went sent crazy in color and line for a n time in its orgy org of cubist and futuristic work That it seems to me is just the thing that has happened in women's clothes The fashion makers arc are indulging in a debauch of lines color and fabrics They seem to be living living living liv liv- ing in a ni nightmare in which the exposition o of as much flesh as as' possible holds a prominent part and putting their brand bland of smartness on these strange thin things s they trap people into wearing A A great t de deal l has been said and written on this subject as it affects the morals of people It Itis Itis is bad enough for a n married woman to wear such styles but it is s outrageous to permit some of the young women one sees to be so disrobed in public Custom and climate have induced the human human race to wear clothes Generations and generations generations generations genera genera- have instilled modesty into the minds of men nten and women have brought them to the conventions con con- of society and the niceties of or life Shock these sentiments and soon one will have a decadent deca does dent society 1 A Artists appreciate a beautiful nude nude but but mind you they appreciate this only in its proper setting on on the posing stand Nothing will shock the tho artistic mind more quickly than the abuse of nudity by a n model and und no matter how well he hex hez x z may become used to working from j life ire when the posing i is over he ho t wants his model clad If this is so in inthe inthe f the studios studio we can understand wh why this public undressing of women is of e r shocking to the lay Jay mind as well N w Venture 1 ServIce 1020 10 I K f A HA beautifully nude figure is one thing a naked one is another Do you know that so small a thing as a garter worn b by a model will transform transform trans trans- form orm the nude to nakedness It surely does docs and this is the reason that the women who are dressing dressing dressing dress dress- ing in these outrageous fashions appeal to oneas one oneas as undressed A Aside ide from this point anything that is artificial artificial artificial arti- arti in dress can not be beautiful any more than the artificial in nature One does docs not paint tho the lily There are two parts of the anatomy from which to hang clothes the shoulders and the hips The old Greeks used us the shoulders as a starting point Semi Semi civilized civilized per persons ons use the hips leaving leaving leav leav- ing the upper part pait of the body bare Even in the times now referred to as barbarically splendid the clothes were suspended from rom the hips an anthe and the upper part pait of or the body decorated with jewelled jew- jew t J cUe breastplates In these costumes you ou had a 11 beginning and an en end The clothes began at a definite point and so ended they gave the figuro figure the proper division and for this reason the they held an artistic suggestion But the clothes of today have no beginning and no ending The bust is not the proper starting stalling place for or clothes Draperies cannot be naturally held in place when starting from that point therefore women resort to artificial means of support an elastic or something of the sort Bort making a ridge and puffiness of the flesh and right there is 3 where you begin to think of flesh and not of l form or r beauty Few Backs Fare Well The gown so called so-called that is hel held in place by bya a single strap is incomplete It gives this suggestion sug sus- therefore it creates sensual ideas ideas Looking Look Look- ing lug at a woman so clad one involuntarily begins to wonder i if only for a second what would hap hap- t J Here Is the Fashionable Back Effect the Effect the Waistline Limit That Was So t Long Threatened and Now Has j i Happened at Last i i pen if the single strap broke It is unwholesome and unbeautiful ul hundred There is not one woman out of a to her back to view and nd who C can afford expose yet ct regardless of the thc ul ugliness ness of backs women are arc toda today wearing caring clothes cut down to the waistline waist line and it seems to me little higher in front With this great reat expanse of flesh above the hips you have then thou either cither a long Jong lined trailing skirt or a short diaphanous one It is all aJl incongruous It doesn't fit in the picture it is a distortion Modesty l J Is Still Approved Tl t to Now ow I see that women are arc beginning not wear stockings with their evening slippers The talk silk ilI stocking covering of a leg Jet softens harsh lines but put a bare foot into a satin atin slipper and you have an u ugly ly sight it It seems as though it only to be intro introduced intro introduced remained for this final l incongruity by the fashion crazed crazed to make the present day ny extremes in clothes quite ridiculous Recently I was interested in knowing how hov howth th the tho public would receive these styles s so o I went to a fashion frolic as it was as called The whole thing was anything but refined There were three or four gowns that were modest and sweet the tile balance were lew lewd that is all I watched the the- tb audience closely and waited for applause for some soma of the most startling affairs but none came T The e extreme extremo costumes were cie received in silence but butA j the several dainty modest gowns were applauded For this reason and man many others I do n nt be tut that the public approves or likes t those most o c modes a and Id what i is more I 1 do de tt not believe e that J Me the women who arc are persuaded to wear them by bythe the fashion makers 1 like Jike them then i eith either cither r. r Without exaggeration I feel like Jike shouting out outGo ant anto Go o home and finish dressing Seriously I believe v tho the women WOlDen women wom WOlD- that we will soon see sec a change an and that en wi will I literally go Yo home and finish dressing S |
