Show T Trousers Women in Workshop Office Outdoors Gowns at Home Says Fiske 4 I t. t r Po rr t I f t I I I U J f vJ MOI If iP 0 44 ri You I i tI weAR gi c b 1 I 4 tie l om OC r b I I II I I II III I lt s 's 13 cy J O T A C I f Li 2 I H Actress Who Wears Em as She Plays George Sand Declares They Are Aie Better for Mountain Climbing Riding Sports and andin andin andin in All' All Sorts of Work as They i Afford a Sense of Freedom By lYl Marguerite arguerite M Mooers- Mooers lU Marshall arshall ROUSERS for women while they T TROUSERS are aiS doing their work york in shop S or office or outdoors Trousers for women while they are riding riding riding rid rid- ing climbing mountains taking part partin in any sport But beautiful frocks of silk and 1 velvet evening gowns gowns lovel lovely in color c lor and line for home wear wear- wear for parties for tho the woman hours That is tho interesting philosophy of clothes which Mrs Irs Fiske delicately painted for me yesterday afternoon on at atthe atthe atthe the Criterion theatre The Tho greatest actress and the most intelligent woman on the American stage had Just finished her reincarnation tion of George Sand the great Frenchwoman who was so much more interesting an ant intelligent than anything anything anything any any- thing she ever wrote I think those who have seen Mrs Fiskes Fiske's brilliant performance In George Sand would be perfectly willing willing will will- ing to let her play the part in knickerbockers knickerbockers knicker knicker- or white wings should she care to do so But she elects to put on the immortal immor immortal humor immor- tal Georges George's own trousers for at least part of the pla play and tind 1 I had be been n told that that like like George she George she believed in trousers for women Do you ou I asked with considerable perturbation when I found her in her dressing room after the last act net of George Sand Hopefully I noted the dusky crimson robes sliding off oft Mrs Fiskes Fiske's wonderful white shoulders the c crimson roses loses in George Sands Sand's short I dark darl curls For I think mens men's clothes too hideous ever to want to wear themI them I I have found that trousers give a wonderful sense of freedom she re- re reI plied piled Really I have worn them very I little but it seems to me they are arc just the thing for riding for mountain climbing for all exercise of that sort It would be a great great misfortune however however however how how- ever if women In general gave up their beautiful soft gowns to put on mens men's clothes I should hate not to see my roy friends in beautiful dresses My ly own clothes are a disgrace Mrs 1 Fiske confessed ruefully I pay no attention to them at all I remember that when you ou played Salvation Nell you ou said you ou liked the scrubwoman's clothes because it was such a relief not to bother bothel with furbelows furbelows furbelows fur fur- belows I told the beautiful gracious woman sitting opposite meShe me mc She smiled roguishly disarmingly You heard people say she reminded me Oh I love Jove these old clothes clothes I I am amso amso so comfortable in them Well Vell Im I'm Th w w t Z I I f EK I afraid I feel that way all aU the time It must be sheer laziness I think But ButI I do so like lilie to see tec beautiful clothes on other women I r never would banish lovely gowns for tor evening wear for tor parties for the home home for for the woman hours of life MUST BE FREE I A distinguished English feminist has written an essay in which she I argues that women will never be realI really really real real- I ly free until they free themselves from the tyranny of dress She says it wastes so much of ot their time I told Mrs Fiske Oh it does it does she agreed I with heartfelt conviction But I would have ha women dress beautifully I without taking so much time for it To dress beautifully is not necessarily necessarily necessarily to dress fashionably To dress beautifully is to choose choos a gown lively in color and line and suited to oneself Having procured such a gown there is no reason why it should be changed every overy three months Because of 01 women's women's wom worn ens en's craze for new things the men who make clothes are compelled to produce new fashions usually fashions usually hideous ones ones four or five times a year Women waste hours and hours shamefully in looking for clothes trying them buying buying buy buy- ing them putting them on and arid off Surely a woman with a fine vigorous brain can use it for something better All of this seems to me perfectly obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense Mrs Fiske broke off with a deprecating movement of the lovely shoulders But so man many persons haven't even an ounce I reassured her What do you think of recent fashions I think they are disgraceful she I replied frankly Not the short skirts I perhaps as they at least give freedom I But a woman came to see me not lon long ago wearing a hat which completely covered one eye And women wear such silly things on their faces It seems to me that the fashions of re recent recent recent re- re I cent years have destroyed womanly dignity and grace But isn't the war making women waste less time on I clothes There still are plenty of i women poring over the shop windows I re re- re re marked That is true she conceded And i shop windows windows' are are- the most immoral I things in the world They give wrong I II standards wrong values to poor women women women wom wom- I I en who cannot afford the display the they II see I Display is always wrong always I II I vulgar Mrs Fiske Fisko declared with her I staccato vehemence Display in your I II home homp in your hospitality in your I I clothes anywhere about you simply I II I brands blands your vulgarity So often j I women's clothes arc are display italicized Sometimes it seems as if in a city like New York we get nothing but j i display j jABOUT I ABOUT OVERALLS I Just for a mom moment t I thought wo we I I might return to our trousers Women doing war work york in the railroad railroad rail rail- ran ran-I road yards and on the farms are wearing wearing wearing wear wear- ing overalls a form or ot trousers I observed I dont don't think that would be sary she agreed And why wouldn't i I it be a good idea for women to wear to-wear wear I II trousers to work whether their work I I takes them to shop office or farm I Trousers would woul give them the freedom the the comfort they nee need for any sort of labor whether its it's climbing a mountain moun moun- tam tain or running a mahine I believe we weI I I shall come to It before long for the women athletes are not wearing skirts and little girls are dressed like little boys But let us never give up beautiful dresses for the woman hours pleaded Mrs Fiske A free woman of today she knows the value of her hours She is no master builder of her master Ibsen I Ito to fear the younger generation of I feminists knocking at the door loor Un Un- like i poor George San Sam sue site and we I II who believe in women do not take takeI I Imen I men seriously enough to desire to imil imi- imi i J l tate them I |