Millard County Chronicle | 1932-01-14 | Page 7 | Normal Human Instinct for Beauty in Clothes

normal human instinct for beauty in in clothes one reason why clothes or at least the clothes of men excite so little in terest Is 1 that they have become drab and this drabness drab Is 1 excused on the ground that clothes are meant to be useful and comfortable and useful ness and comfort have ceased to be associated with beauty in modem modern life neither reason of course is true clothes are worn to enhance human dignity and at bottom only such comfort Is wanted as shall not inter fere fore with the prevailing mode the women who starved aj and sliced them selves in order to keep slim who will cripple their limbs with hobbled skirts when these are the wear and crucify their feet when pointed toes and high heels are the fashion display a normal human instinct men have hate suffered much and gladly to wear patent leath er shoes at garden parties in the height of summer and have choked themselves rapturously with tall stiff collars and comfort means little to them so long as they remain convinced of the rightness and fitness of both osbert burdett in the london satur day review