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Show PERFEGT 3B MISFIT HW. MODEL WIS Need be Perfect Fright, Instead, In-stead, to Show Modern Govns, Says Gertie CHICACO, March 19. Gertie, the fashion model, Is in for a hard, time. You're sure to hear her register her protest if you listen, it might run like this: "There ain't no such thing as a feminine femi-nine form today. A lady might as well be. a perfect horror as a perfect 36. A classy built dame can't show the styles no more. What they need for a model Is a circus freak, Rubina, the rubber lady, or something like that. She's gotta have a spaghetti spine, double joints and accordion pleated muscles to fit into more than ono gown a year." Two Ways to Follow Mode. And Gertie is right. There are two ways to follow the fashions. One is follow them all the way. in thai case, milady will need the slim wap waist in the morning to wear the embroidered embroid-ered batiste basque which might have graced a Dutch master portrait of 1800. In the afternoon she will need a few curves to bolster up the roso colored col-ored moyen age basque, and in the ee-ning ee-ning slie will have to eb as straight as a ramrod to wear the white draped evening gown whicli looks as ii it were built to set off the charms of a telephone tele-phone pole. And as for the permutations permuta-tions and combinations and logarithmic logarith-mic applications which go to make up some of the other Paris and American made gowns exhibited for the Faslhon Art league, which opened its yearly convention in tho Auditorium hotol tins morning, only a mathematician could giess whether the forms beneath are 'spheres, hemispheres, parabolas or comet-like wisps of almosphe:e. Fit Every Individuality. "There is every fashion conceivable to fit every individuality conceivable," declared II. S. Williamson, in charge of the exhibit. "Any woman can choose any fashion she wishes." And that is the secret of thp .ilhpr method of following tho fashions. Not to follow IJicm at all. Anything Is fashionable. fash-ionable. A- hem cut off from a last tar's dress will give the remnant the fashionable unfinished effect. A few patches of foulard pattern, cut out and placed like patches over a worn spot in last year's serge, will give the new appllnued effect. Some embroidered ejelets on the old taffeta, If you don't happen to have a dress from thirty years ago, or some knife pleats on the crepe de chine, will give the boulevard effect also. Mrs. O. L. Hinton of LaFayette. Ind., declared she would plead in behalf cf ' the western dressmakers for conservative conserv-ative fashions, made of lasting mate-' , rial. Registration of artists, designers i and dressmakers is going on today. A i thousand are expected. oo |