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Show 'What Funny ' Costumes, Women Used to Wear! Short Skirts and Bobbed Hair May Seem Oueer Fifty Years Hence jkk 31 r- 4 ; - ;i L4 'X f W '- "Vfer; Xll ; IMiM f ) St M $W V u y $Mt AM- - v 1 vf l" lW .V YJ9 - no woman flattened hie hi pa or eoa- V J I Yf ,Nr-.' coaled her .lender walatllna I ' V 1 V T I V v STZX T1-V. Tj?W' Krocka were confectlona In tha BO- - - I I t V- 2.- - TTV , w" . clal reign of lAicy Webb Hayea, ax- 5t3BtL. LJ ' V vlia V V' -Va? -va-v treme loft, during 1H7I to Mil. Trains, aBaTeaasaeeaeBaaaaaTeW aa;aBtkMMaHMBMABMaMkMaa bustlea, fringes and miles of ribbon no woman flattened hla tilpa or eon-coaled eon-coaled her elrnder wa tut line. Krorks were confectlona In tha aortal ao-rtal reisn of Taucy Webb Hayea, extreme ex-treme left, during 1177 to 1SS1, Trains, bustles, fiinfce and mllea of ribbon went Into the composition of tha smartest modes. Tha ruffled hoop ektrt' occupied tha attention of the belle In tha period of 1M1 to IMS when Julia Gardiner Tyler, srond from right, entertained at the White House. A dainty type of frock that la aiwaya beautiful and Uvea parentally In tha roatume play. Of course, th-r ara funny old dreeaea. but tha chemise frock or the flapper uniform may look Quite aa funny- fifty years from now? 'Whoever wore these queer old-fashioned old-fashioned frocks 7" Is your first thought on looking at theaa pictures. Tha answer la, tha flrat ladles of our land. Tbeaa ara re plicae of costumes cos-tumes worn by wlvea of tha presidents, presi-dents, now displayed on marble fir-wee fir-wee In tha Hmlthaonion institution, Washington, D. t. to trace the devel-opmTnt devel-opmTnt of style In women's clothes. Sarah Angelleia Van Buren. second from left, shown tha period between 1837 to 1141. That waa when the mall waist, low bodice, kmc skirt and lace bertha ware tha vogue. The kerchief, of sheer material, lace edgsd and the decorative fan were alwava features of tha well-dreaeed woman. In n frivolous ags of gorveous materials, ma-terials, lae-e and fot-de-rota, 8a rah Childness polk, extreme right, occupied occu-pied the White Hout. In those days |