Show CHANCE IN DRESS MUST COME T AVERT revolution unless women modify their dress i so as to reduce the cost to meet economic conditions we shall face a revolution more terrible than the french revolution the time has come then for all our clubs and our citizens to stand for principle and to put the emphasis on character and not on dress such was tile the startling conclusion of dr E L house in a lecture on t dress in the first methodist church last night before a large audience the educator and noted made a sweeping denunciation of the modern trend in comans womans wearing vear g apparel hd and evidence that t the le bold 0 assertions sert ions were driven home war wa shown in tile the prolonged applause that greeted them extravagance toward evil dr house pronoun pronounced end the present trend in womans comans dress an all extravagance that worked toward evil he said it was too often the case that a young woman was compelled to sell hell her virtue to get the clothes that will admit her to society and position and that the young man of today entered the scarlet womans comans home to dispose of its his character because he was financially unable to maintain a home of his own tile the cost of fast living the woman setting the pace being too loo great the educator also pointed out that tile the common working man discovers that its his daughter has been ostracised ostracized from high school because ot or a misstep taken in the effort to get her the clothes that would would bri bring her to the level of her associates continuing dr house said A area 70 trien really anad e I 1 ali nations notions ai of propriety prop riely are swept vi to the winds there is a revolt against all styles and the whole earth is lae being searched for oddities and freakishness is that shall make women distinct from her kind in dress and in this mad search man has been left far behind there was a time when lie he vied with woman and had buckles annd and silk stockings and knee pants and wigs after the french revolution plain dress came into vogue but bat after a little the wives of the more well to do found extra time and began to make little extras for their clothes until after a while hile they were more dist distinct than their sisters battles for her mate then there came a time when alie ideals set for the boy and girl bad some something tiling to do in in making dress the boy must go to college but the girl must find her mate and since women were not tile the choosers of their fate they set to work to attract the right hand of a partner and this could be done often times by striking apparel 1 until woman is married life is to her a battle ground where she fights for her man and every woman knows that she must step ahead ot of the next woman it if silo she Is going to attract her mate hence this has brought about a display among tile the young women of today but why the display ot of dress among married women well there came a pressure upon the husband lius baud through business and he found himself unable to attend all the functions of society so he be made his wife the social representative of the family 1 expressing hla his standing in the community and if he be a business man a lawyer a doctor a merchant his hig wife must dress better than that of the mechanic or clerk to show his financial status in society so she too dresses in the best beat to represent the supposed well to do husband has deteriorating effect but this emphasis upon dress hast had its deteriorating effect upon the character of wo wom anand minand of man and the economic conditions of 0 the day the unmarried woman finds she must dress well to get a position to attract a mate and while her pay lias has been insufficient she has been told she must wear good clothes and is often driven to Gel sel lingher virtue to get the clothes that will admit her to society and the young man discovers that today with the cost coat of living advanced I 1 he cannot afford to marry oni on the salary paid and so he often chooses I 1 to go into bachelor quarters and not marry and oftentimes goes out in I 1 continued on page seven seren CHANGE IN DRESS MUST COM I 1 T I 1 I 1 NERT revolution continued from first page to the scarlet womans comans home and sells hla his character and while this is going on the eo common workingman discovers his bib daughter is ostracised ostracized in the high school and his wife in society because they cannot dress aa well as the banker and doctors wife he sees that the entrance into society is not as it used to be one ot of mentality and character but one of dress and money and the ability to repay in und kind and he Is rightly demanding a more equal distribution trib trl butron ution of money and that the entrance into society should not be one ot of dress dreas but mind and heart hearl revolution and it if the women of this country do not cut down the cost of dressing and bring in a more modest mode of living we shall face a revolution more terrible than that which came to tle the krench people in the time of the french revolution the time has come then tor for all our clubs arad our best people to stand for principle and to put the emphasis upon character and not upon dress ogden examiner |