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Show Tan editorial by 1 florence davies , THE SANE MINORITY. People who writo about fashions I ,secm tn fofget the sane minority. And fcrgetting that, they also forget that tho minority vote sometimes swings the election. Comes now the prophecy from Paris tliU the dresses which aro long and i ipidly getting longer will soon be I Kitted "uut with bustles. Women will accept the bustle as ;they eventually accept every other decree de-cree of the Paris fashion world," is the confident comment of the dress-1 makers. I But why so confident? Have American Amer-ican women actually accepted every 'decree of the Purls fashion makers ' Some one Is forgetting the sane ndnority. j And who. pray tell, compose this Sane minority in dress.' Not the Piit heeled reformers, or the old ladies too conservative to change, but the up and coming, smart, well-dressed business women who laugh at silly extreme.'.. When r.nis arrogantly aiinoun. es that women will accept anything and everything ev-erything she proposes she seems t'J 'forget the American business woman, who won't wear hoops and who won't wear bustles and who does put sleeves, Into sleeveless gowns and who never-! tlu-less remains a very well dressed person. Just imagine rustling into the president presi-dent s otilec in a bustlo to take a letter! let-ter! That may be all very well for the L!llv little stetiog who Is the fifteenth assistant In a big office. But tho women who help to carry tho load In business don't go around wearing bustles and trains and swooping draperies, drap-eries, do:if ever forget that. And standing With tho business women In this rapidly Increasing minority min-ority Is her first cousin, the modern Club woman and her sister, the young married woman Who knows phe has to wear her frock a second season and who therefore consistently refuses th-brief th-brief fashion. Yet all of these women .uuri ige to remain well-dressed. i So have no fear when you reud that I the bustle is about to return. It's Just like the godet plaits. You won't have to wear It if you don't want to. Thel lime has come when you can emulate 'vour husband or brother If you wish; ind phone your tailor. If they have i luii'j nothing else tor tho country the business women have made clothes aafe and sane for all who prefer them that way. nn |