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Show GOWNS TELL LOVE OR HATE Dreaaea Symbolical Of Emotions la aa Idea Brad of the Ancient Tines. "Psychological gowna," aald n mtlll-ner mtlll-ner to a Newark Now man, "were worn by an actresa In a piece that recently fell flat. The gowna were called piy etiological etio-logical because they ejmbolUeU things, and the Idea of such symbolical row us was thought to be quite new. It, la. bow-ever, bow-ever, as old as dress Itself. The actri-ss In her play, osjrnboll;eicloiisnei. attired at-tired herself In scarlet. She wore a delicious de-licious sly blue In a loe sceue tosjni-bollze tosjni-bollze vlrtuoua happiness between sweethearts. Hut her garb was jclluw when she mixed the poison to extinguish extin-guish her unfaithful lover. All this w.u considered new and clever. What, though, could have been older? Consider Consid-er the bride as she approaches the altar. Doesn't her white gown symbollre innocence in-nocence and her white veil tnaldch modesty? mod-esty? Consider the widow lu blade Aren't hnr Inky and lugubrious robca symbols of her desolation? Consldor the paid Jn white who la nbout to tahe the eil. Does not her snowy robe symbolize sym-bolize the purity of her heart? Ureas, In fact, has always been aymbollcal. The South Sea Island women wear their shells and feather with much psychological psycholog-ical significance Tho women of the Congo arrange their scanty draperies and ornaments In ways that mean: 'I desire a husband,' 'I am rich' and twenty )ther things. All these forms of drese .nay truthfully be called psychological forms. Hence I don't understand why this actress with her varied gowns gave an Idea of novelty." |