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Show -: Business Women Order Fashion Designers to Bring Beauty and Working Girl Closer Together HE NEW YORK. ept. 1G With a H4 solemn warning to male designers Of HV feminine finery that they "sit up and Hf take notice." 600 Napoleonettes of BL the commercial world, members of HI iho Professional and Business Worn- Hm en's league, are pn paring to stage a HE! fashion show all their own at tho HJD Commodore hotel. September 18-23. HHj Their purpose, they declare, is to HHj point out to the business flapper the HHj Incongruities in her get-up; to bring HHJ about a closer affinity between beauty i HHj and the, working girl, and, most im- r portant of all. to impress upon male I gffWMJLJ 1 tJLJU flw-diiaJlJ r architects of female fashions the Imperative Im-perative need for a standardized at-1 tire for business women only. The business girl. Instinctively trying try-ing to keep up with the fashions and at the same time look nnd feel prac-tlcally prac-tlcally dressed, has been guilty of some innocent atrocities, these fash-Ion fash-Ion sbow promoters admit. To date the male designer has ron- j fined himself to thinking up novel effects for the "frivolous flapper, tho! delirious debutante, the society ma-j tron. globe trotter. dancing girl, ' peach beauty, tennis devotee. Diana of the hunt and Lassie of the nwi- j Ikk." Is the way they preamblo their declaration of rights. Torn between her desire to drew as well as any of these, and with no accredited pattern book to clip, there has been evolved a "Business Flap-; per" who. they say, "don't dress the way they do because they enjoy being be-ing the butt of humorists and cynics.) out simply because they love beauy, and want to express it in the on'y way they can through their clothes." "Because beauty which would fit tin lr needs has never been assembled und offered them in concrete form, and because they haven't time or money to spend making beauty fit ideas, ..many of them hac made mistakes." mis-takes." the league continues. "They have not yet learned that there may 1..- both beauty ami utility in garments gar-ments If designs are right." The desire to uplift anybody or anything any-thing Is entirely lucking from the purpose of the style show sponsors. "Nothing is further from our purpose," pur-pose," asserted Mrs. Caroline Radnerf mmmammmAmm p i 1 1 W"- I Lewls, advertising manager f.-ir n silk manufacturer, and Mrs. L. M Kuss II, a mufaslne editor. 'Business women wom-en of the country do not require uplifting; up-lifting; they have done and will continue con-tinue to do this for themselves. "The idg thought back of ouc plan Is to Impress on designers and manufacturers manu-facturers the fact that a group of women who earn millions of dollars a year are worthy of more consideration consider-ation at the hands of the style-dictators than they have received in the past " Of course, despite her difficulties. "The Anerlcan business woman Is the best-dressed woman on earth," they maintain. !ut the business flapper is not really to be classed as a business busi-ness woman; but rather one In the making;" oo |