Show I Intrepid Artist Braves Terrors T Tells Women How to Dress I irn i I 2 ROSS P By EDWARD M. M THIERRY S CHICAGO IlI Dec 10 Ross Ross Crane Chicago artist Is an nn intrepid manlies man Hes He's been t touring the country telling women how to dress Mr Crane is head of the extension department of th the Chicago Art tute He isn't running a style stylo show Theres There's nothing commercial about his advice He Ho is tr trying to teach women something about art in clothes clothes about about colors and lines and types STUDY SILHOUETTES Study your silhouette is one of his most frequent pleas What he means is that a n woman who is too tall taU and thin should not dress in the popular stripes Conversely a woman of too generous lines Jines does well to avoid the lure of big soft coats and cling to the simple lines JInes of a tailored suit He talks highbrow stuff in a lowbrow lowbrow lowbrow low low- brow fashion Here's Heres tho the way he works Young lady he calls cans into the tho audience you in iii the third row row row- with the delicious red hair and that awful looking red Ted gown step gown step up on the he stage stage now now now Im I'm not trying to be rude thank rude thank you you yes yes stand there there great great godfather child who whoever whoever whoever ever told you you could wear flame- flame colored and and with such beautiful red hair why hair why you look like a fire cracker here fire here try this simple little thing in green ladies green ladies I ask you isn't there a tremendous difference dif- dif ference SCOLDS AND MOLLIFIES Crane scolds them for dress monstrosities monstrosities monstrosities mon mon- and then mollifies them by showing them how to l be e beautiful and chic How to dress is just one of seven phases of the work being carried onby on onby onby by this art evangelist He is also teaching the art of planning and furnishing furnishing furnishing fur fur- a home Last summer the artist visited Various various various va va- rious state f fairs IllInois firs Illinois Wisconsin Michigan Tennessee and Oklahoma Oklahoma- with several of women's clothes and three models His fall tail plans Included visits to St. St Louis Evansville Jeffersonville and Vincennes Vincennes Vin- Vin I cennes Ind led and Columbus Akron and Newark Ohio He further plans to go into big corporations in Chicago stores Chicago stores factories factories factories fac fac- tories telephone exchanges and mail mall order houses houses and and show girls how to dress He plans to substitute education education education tion for unsuccessful arbitrary dress rules When he gets through he says farmers farmers' wives and farmers' farmers daughters daughters daugh- daugh ers and salesgirls will look like fashion plates I I I I J J n m r I IL L fL I IS S 3 From left to right from ridiculous to fashion plate in each group 1 Overdressed emphasizes prominent nose and receding chin softened by simple sim simple elm sim- pIe lines 2 Careless of hat coat hemline and shoes attractive when dressed 3 Tall and thin wearing stripes effect softened by broud hat drooping fe feathers and loose bore coat 4 Overweight change from great loose coat furs and picture hat to tailored suit and small upward i inclined hat |