Show New Fashions And Just Re-Hash By ELIZABETH C. WALKER While browsing around in the Public to my joy I came across a book filled with fashions from ancient times to the recent All my life I have is nothing new under the and this certainly bears that FIRST TO catch my attention and hold it was a picture from the Amsterdam of a young girl pulling on a How like the advertisements we see for And as if to pinpoint it with she was also wearing a coat like my It had a as hers It was from the Hippies in the bronze I came across the picture of a young girl in a dirty and apparently made from an discarded It had a string belt much as we do It was in the Copenhagen National THEN I noticed that the Egyptian carvings featured women in some form of the and the frescoes of many ancient buildings show these It is thought that one group of these wore a corset to make the skirt lie flat over the accentuating the slim waist and the prominence of bare This was formed from a framework of metal It was not for it presupposes the use of but was from the century B. C. Cretan women must have stayed home a great because they wore slippers and high boots most of the but when going out on a state they wore high Are we so much different ROMAN sandals were also with crisscross laces from sandal toe on up the We see those features in our store displays for In the Musee des National in Paris there is a necklace of scarab which the ancient Egyptians worshipped as carrying the world around with it because of its habit of carrying its eggs on its stomach in a mud I also have a necklace of scarab beetles which I wear with a white knit IN THE period in is shown a young girl with her hair worn straight down her back as today's girls wear wore our hair in that manner when I went to high The hair of this early-time girl was caught back with a This was in A.D. Men and women wore like costumes at that and they look much like today's Ferdinando de la who died at the age of in 1200 A.D. wore an outfit that could pass today as shirt and GRANDMA'S cover-up apron was high fashion for Leonora of Aragon in 1244 A.D. The is not new at F. wore in it was ordinary dress in the and centuries in the Arabian We wear them for lounging around The picture was from in CAPES favored all thru the A.D. and they were usually fingertip Even the nudists got into the From the Frankfort Museum is pictured a naked woman wore a This was in 1525 A.D. OVER the all the styles pictured today are You yer money and takes yer where style is |