Show HERB HERM are hundreds hun dreda of thou sands of women in europe today who have never seen a fashion f balon book there are young girls to whom easter hae has never meant new now hats or spring styles but jual the timo time to leave off two winter petticoats and the heavy woolen socks locks there are rosy cheeked maldi roo mako their dresses after the models their grandmothers great wore these girls would laugh at a bobble skirt and would in openmouthed wonder at a bird of paradise paradies to the modern american boman who even in tho smallest small pst town subscribes to three or four fashion magazines who has the village dressmaker remodel her last years poplin anthe on the lines of tho the fashionably draped gown of her city sister the state of affairs which leaves a woman not only ignorant bat but apathetic about tho the main interest in life Is to appalling and incomprehensible she Is twice as an comfortable and when the american woman larns that these antiquated costumes prevail only 30 milea miles from one of the biggest cities in the world as tor for instance tho the Spree wald costume co worn at leipe and burg quite near berlin or in those centers frequented by tourists and travelers she will III probably exclaim with amazement and can sho she wear those ugly hot things when she sees how comfortable and cool our dresses arel are but the peasant girl can retort that she Is in twice as comfortable ID iv her loose easy clothes and that she spends probably thousandth one of the time on planning the dreybus as her american sister does that in addition she spends only a small percentage of her money on weird mons monstrosities troal of style and that what she pays trip miss 1 one of tho the moat most delightful and worth while experiences 0 of all their travel it if they do not visit the rural district districts ot of france in tho espreo anit that holland ot of germany where tho the streets are streams and the people pole up and down the shallow eh allow winding canals the inhabitants are getting used to the delegations of tourists atz who como come out in tho the springtime and of 0 their own accord they push their way in front of tho the cameras telling you their na names in guttural and exact ing the promise from you that you send a copy of the picture aa as soon ae as it Is deY developed eloped they of all germans cling to the old cos costume turie and in their little col ony although thero there are differs differences aces in headdress and tho the number of I 1 petticoats the ancient custom Is followed exactly one petticoat after another the most important thing is in the pet ti coata coats there is one on top of an other layer after layer and the more petticoats the richer and finer the maid over the top skirt comes an elaborate apron gaily embroidered in many colors and this like the capt caa changes with the occasion now plain tor for the week days and work now elaborate and trimmed with laco lace for sun days and fete days the women for the most part pam go barefoot when they work in the damp fields and pole down the shallow streams in their bottomed flat punts and sunday is the only day that they put on stockings white thick ones and the stiffly starched caps with broad white wings and long lace streamers i in tho the rural districts of holland the predominant characteristic of worn wom ens costume and the one to which particular attention is paid la is the calffe or cap every town and village has a style distinctly ay lib ith own where aa dinou CLACE tor for Is the material itself and not the ever varying opinion of the self styled connoisseurs who shift the fashions as soon as a woman has a new dress waste money on clothes clot hest cried miss cresswell Dres swell why it waste see how nico nice I 1 look and the french peasant in her quaint gathered smock with a simple kerchief drawn across her chest and I 1 a white cap fitting tightly over her smooth tresses looks at the american from her tight pointed shoes with their high heels to the top of her aeroplane hat growing ostrich plumes or hower flower gardens she notices the tight skirt the drawn draun in waist line the high boned collar and she says mademoiselle is doubtless very chic but I 1 think still that my clothes are the bests best and there is to great charm in tho the simplicity of the gayly colored costume as one sees it on a happy young girl singing at sunrise in the fields or bringing home the baskets of fish at sunset in brittany the wooden shoes or sa bots eo long considered a distinguish ing feature of holland are universal sll ir I 1 worn perhaps more so than in hoi land for there thero is a growing tendency to discard the old custom but in brittany the people are superstitious ious to an intense degree and seem to regard it as a religious duty that they hall rhall still wear the costumes of their ancestors and continue the trades and dally daily duties that made up the life of a hundred years ago travelers in europe who regard paris as the beall be all and end all of the th AI A I by the initiated can tell at a glance whether the girl comek from goes or volendam Vo lendam marker or zeeland many of the caps are of the mem exquisite lace some plain others ornamented namen ted with decolati deco rati nu of precious metal the dutch worn wco M en love the glitter and tinkle of gold and anti gold ornaments bang from their thel r dress and hair and caps with more mors recklessness mck than reason this love of ornament sometime sometimes of chains and trinkets oftener of massive jewelry set with large red oi 01 green stones ie ic common to the warm blooded women of the south there color runs riot in costumes and in spain particularly they have united in an P edul droll able frable fashion the practical with the picturesque the women wear a voluminous ski skirt rt of floo cloth extending below the kneer and trimmed about the bottom with bands of black velvet and over this a joyously colored apron edged with gold lace and erle the dote clote fitting jacket reaches to the hipe hips tho the scams ar are 0 outlined e d in gold lace and the sleeves slashed open from the elbow to the wrist to reveal white un belonging belon cinc to the an immensely long coral comi chain is I 1 wound countless times about th tho 0 throat and dangling from it are sacred medallions and vart variously bously sized cross cs the whole forming a plastron which readies reaches to the waist the hair is plaited tied with black velvet and allowed to hang don doa do a behind |