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Show INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC EVENTS ON FASHIONS The present craze for oriental colors and designs which is sweeping the country, is more or less a direct outgrowth out-growth of the Interest centered in Egypt due to the successful archeo-logical archeo-logical expeditions being conducted there. The eyes of the world are turned I toward those ancient tombs which are yielding their secrets of long gone lays. The success of the explorers Is a triumph in which the whole world wants to share. The designers and manufacturers of textile fabrics are expressing their interest in-terest by bringing forth a bewildering array of materials, oriental in color ir.d design. The dress designers are creating cos-aimes cos-aimes which they know or think to De Egyptian in line and feeling. The merchant is filling his shop with these costumes and his shelves overflow over-flow with a riot of color and design. The leweler and the bootmaker will make their wares in keeping with the rest of the costume, as will the manufacturer manu-facturer of every dress accessory known to woman. The feminine world will array Itself It-self in a coat of many colors and fashion's decree will be executed. Surely King Tut in all his glory was never more magnificent than he Is now in memory. Strange that a king of a dead and gone civilization should be the arbiter of fashions thousands of years after his time? Not so strange at that. Public Pub-lic events have always made their impress im-press on the fashions of the day. In olden times when coats of mail were part of man's war equipment, the clothes were tight fitting, so that the coat of mail could be worn over them. The women's clothes were a reflection of the men's. In times of peace they were apt to be loose and flowing. The military feeling was present in the styles of 1014-191S. We never gn through a presidential election without featuring a new color, the favorite of the first lady of the ! land. Net sc 'ong ago our shop windows win-dows were filled with "Mrs. Harding blue." "Alice blue" vylll be remembered remem-bered as the favorite color of President Presi-dent Roosevelt's daughter. Kings and queens and others who occupy oc-cupy a prominent place in the world's affairs will always sway the fasnlons of their little hour. |