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Show Tha Reign of Dxme Fashion. About this season of the year the shop windows lire a lovely sight. They have all the colors of the ipectrum, multiplied and subdivided until they are a veritable chromatic symphony. Dame Fashion is queen and she is the most autocratic sovereign in the world. Fashion! What a mysterious yet all powerful thing it is! It comes intangibly from nowhere in particular and overspreads a nation. The anonymous anony-mous "they" set the styles and everybody else follows fol-lows them. The changes in fashions are as abrupt as the change from day to night. There is uo rule by which they are governed. They are as irresponsible irrespon-sible and erratic and altogether delightful as the west wind. The object of fashion is to please, to delight the ye, and that surely is a worthy object. Change is one of the laws of nature and fashion, while art must stay somewhere near nature. There is a connection. con-nection. New styles may look odd at first, but we soon, grow to like them. That may be partly because be-cause we have to, else lose the favor of those who wear them, which would be a cataclysm too terrible to contemplate. At any rate we like them, and why not? The styles include multicolored effects and such multiplicity of design that it would be a dour old cynic indeed who found nothing to admire In tueh a generous variety. And when they are worn by lovely woman we are bound to accept them as perfection, for whatever she does is certain to Ik right. Fashion is supreme, and there is no disputing her sway. But he is a kindly monarch after all. She brightens up the pathway of life and gives many of us something to occupy our attention. Just try to imagine what a staid and prosaic world this would be were it not for fashion! Such a condition is inconceivable, however. Men must pay and women wo-men must wear, and we all might as well carry out the programme and make the best of it. If we didn't have the exactions of fashion to fuss about we would be grumbling over something else. Look at the effects in form and color and be glad that there I are fashions. |