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Show INSIST ON FREQUENT CHANGE Winter Asserts Women Are to Blame for the Variations of Styles in Clothes. Women want something new to wear every few months. The absolute truth of this statement is what puts the world pf women against reformers. It is easy to reinl and write reams of theories as to why women should not indulge in the caprice of t new clothes; and, with delightful ingenuousness, ingenuous-ness, these dress reformers put the blame on the style-makers and shops, ignoring the fundamental truth that the blame should be placed on the women. Those who are sincere and those iv h o are i n si n cere but want to be hoard crying aloud in the market places, do not go far enough into the clothes question when pleading for dress reform. What normal woman would want to be robbed of her privilege of seeing new clothes and buying them whenever when-ever it is possible? What healthy-minded healthy-minded woman would want to go through life wearing the same gown, cut on the same lines and preserved, or copied, from season to season? Mary Garden, the opera singer, answered an-swered this whole question once in an interview on the deck of a steamer, when she was sailing for Paris. It w;fe at the height of the great 'hubbub concerning the question of American clnrhes only. The reporter called up from the gangplank. "When, in your opinion, will American women wear American clothes only and show their patriotism patriot-ism ?" "When they're dead," she called out over the rail. "They can't pretest against an American shroud." Exchange. |