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Show u ' 'J f ' i.i i if I in r a n MAN'S CLOTHES FOR MAN'S WORK., '', ',""," Radical innovations' in clothing, lashibns qr wpiijehi are resulting from the war. Int the foreign munition plants the women put on overalls' like' 'the m'en'.1, ( The cus- torn spreads in,this,country,land some manufacturers' say the better freedom of motion adds 50 per cent to the pro-j ductive capacity. , , ,.J To the older women, such changes as these seem reyp-l lutionary and subversive of womanly modesty and reserve The men of the corner loafer type will snicker when the see a woman dressed for her work in a way to make her physical form more apparent. But morbid types of the male persuasion can't be considered much. The woman of the future will dress' according to suitability suita-bility to work. Formerly there was a certain shame when women admitted to the world that like men they were bipeds, possessed of two legs. The German husband in a recent novel condemns his wife because. she showed nearly the whole of both her boots. ' It is easily rememt bered when women woreilong skirted bathing suits, jn which swimming was impossible. This feeling is passing both in work and play, and the damning fa,ct of legs, is admitted without scrupled ,-,,. . , Probably the reason wfiy women have clung to'skirtb so long is artistic rather'than moral. -No costumer coulft make trousers beautiful. The bloomer type used in gymnasium gym-nasium clothes' is less awkward "but still abrupt.' Skjrts have fldwing lines and women will always be likely to use them for dress parade! ! The modern woman is up against, the working woijlfl andmiany hard conditions of life and she is likely to feel that she has handicaps ehough without submitting to dress. She is ambitious to enter the fields, once considered exclusively for men, and if she is to do this she must dress to compete with men and get rid of artificial restriction. It will create some stares for a little while, then all will1 be forgotten. " i |