Show Artist Artist- Admits Admits 1 American Girl Changes Fast Christy Declares Freer Clothing and Fre Freer Thinking Ha Have e. e Worked Great Improve Improvement ment in Women 1 C Rv ALICE ROME ROHE NEW Y YORK RK l March l lT For iL-For For or ty five years Howard Chandler Christy ty has set the fashions In Amen Ameri American can girls Continually i II In that quarter of a a century this popular Illustrator h has hs hassent s sent the Christy girl Into every corner corner corner cor cor- ner of the globe w where ere American magazines are read I Today Howard Chandler Christy Christ portrait painter as well ell as illustrator is still setting girl girt styles What do I think of f the tho changes In Inthe inthe inthe the American girl he repeated pausing pausing paus paus- ing before bHore a a. a. a Joyous decorative panul he was painting portraying the radiant ra- ra radiant radiant ra ra- diant figure of a young girl Well I like her better to today av U than m ever ver Of course I do not l' l f r r t t to the flapper The The- Thereal real Amerl m girl Irl has certainly changed since e first I begin began t to draw her With freer clothing and freer thinking girls have improved Yo I I I v. v cany nu L corseted big hipped rat rather or stiff girls and the un- un of twenty five ye years rs ago corse corseted ed free young perso s' s of today to to today today to- to day The American girl gill has not been hurt burt urt In the least by her education education edu edu- cation catlon and knowledge But again I say I do not refer to the n flapper who Is is I well I dont don't like I IDo her Do you believe belleve that artists establish haIl lish h types types types-In In real life Perhaps Perhaps but but no no artist Is r responsible i ble for the flaP flapper et But you draw flappers era d nt you you you- 7 Oh yes I have to she to she Is a ver very noticeable figure In mcd modern rn life To whom should one lay the bl bI blame m mi for the flapper r Well I ha have ha e noticed that whenever whenever when when- ever evera a sweet refined Inn Innocent cent simple simple sim sin pie girl enters a r room om m filled with flappers flap lap mal make for the pers pens all th tIle the men o yOUng oung oung girl at once Yes and then then then- And then they Immediate pr proceed c ll to make a flapper of her he lie r replied d. d So far as antis art Is concerned there concerned there Is much more latitude In drawing th the modern girl than there was In drawing drawing draw draw- ing her mother or aunt Athletics tic sports of ot all kind tho the war liberal business everything s gives elves her more var varying Ing phases |