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Show Moving Pictures Teach Psychology of Dress, Says Expert Designer of Screen Stars' Gowns 1 American women, collectively, h.iv : I come to be recognized as the beat I dressed In t he woi Id Why? The "movies." Is the report Ot a reef ni social survey made 1 'he mid-west . ; Mi-h. Bthel Chaffln, designer of j dresses for Pniamotint Picture start) ''agrees with this nnd adds I W"Ot course, the country's greul fl-iiiiincial fl-iiiiincial prosperity monoy tins made It possible Cor wonien I., indulge their taste, but 1 do think the moving pictures pic-tures have aided In the tlevclojpment of that taste." PSYCHOJiOSi )! DliKSS Airs. Chuff In points QUt I hut the ino-1 ino-1 ion jjiclure brings to i i. s. towns .unl villages. Die lal.st f;i 1 h lorul .1 1 most sllli- ultaneotis! . Th. "movies" Jihow every type of tlress sult:ilil" for every sort of occasion from a coronation robe to n well-tut and cociueUah gihgharo apron. Fill screen beau s ;ii . is I'.-nilllllli i aln as a girl entertaining her first beau, since personal beauty cihuued by attractive and eultable clothing Is a debt they owe their "fans." "I won't s 1 , we conselouily started oil tu educate American ivomen on Mi- liaffin says nil- opera bag made 10 hrtltate a Preaich doll inii- nuule ii ribbon, and bend grutki ki m ar several mintitea nlieml ir Ihe style. m the subject of dress," laughed .Mrs. Chaffln frankly, "but it bus turned out thai Way, and why not'.' We Ktu.iv 111. 1 'only the figure and personal charoi -terlstles. such as coloring, hair nnd features, of the Individual ti we ir the gown, but that person's character ns well. Consequently a woman late' 'watching this picture unconsciously 'absorbs much ol the psychology of ; dress." , Mil l OF I HE SI 1 B6 Mr Chaffln has Just returned from Europe whore she went in search of Ideas, particularly noveltlee. Among 'the things she brought back, and which sh" predfi tl Will find much fn-with fn-with American women, is a be-ruf-fled bpera bug that looks exactly like a dull Birds made of ribbon instead of featheis was an idea she pickd up In lehne, and from Paris she brought :i unuki' nei'kluce wov' n of fine iridescent irides-cent bead?, "We have to Keep month! ahead of styles;" Ilea. Chaffln explained, "in fat 1 We luive to create them, because the dresses worn in the studio while the picture Is being made are not seen by the public until the picture is released weeks, and sometimes months, I later." |