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By FYedetir J Haskin.New York City, April 1.—Should theHappor, with her elaborate makeup,her dunng dothes, h« r b**ld anil con- I fident carriage. be suppress*'.! as a menace to the nations morals, or celebrated as its chief claim to art and beauty?The question seems to be up for debate. The papers ure full of scandalized protests against the way the flappers dree*, and there are movements on foot for making high school girls, office girl*, shop girls, and girl* in g*-n**ral. dress more modestly. The r- former*, who are bark of this movement, proclaim that the moral* of the American male aro menaced, that he la upeot and led astray by the spectacle of feminine beauty at it* most striking ago. Counsel for the defense a.'.*erts that It is tho Inalienable right of women to make herself Just as attractive a* she can. that ’he mart who le morally ruined by lipstick anj silk .stocking* has no soul worth saving anyway, and that most of the reformer- who s'tnefc feminine dres nr. oldher. Tito * Jersey Uly * The womanwho wo* one of the first to hav« per-funios and boot* n imol after bar. song* dedicated to her. and the men of two continents at her feet. Aj-1 new, today, you say. ‘A trifle pretty’, but you would not have given her photograph a second glance”As far .u- ran be a-certained from a study of th1' files of Id periodical*, the new st: p.- “f flapper first began to appear ibout 1010 At that time.\ face powder was placed ope y uponthe feminine dreaiUic tnbi* . often brazenly accompanied by a tin box f: theatrical rouge. For the first time, n Iso. sl!k atocking* becum* popular for everyd ly wear among the women of the niiddlk clams. Before that, th-y had not born considered altogether r« -spectabl*'. With th* m came th* Merry Widow hat. 'hlt; slit skirt, bright color* | and curly h air. In th*- old days, if a young woman’s h ilr was straight, it w us considered in a-ffeetaU n to curl it.Many things were responsible for the birth of the new er i of handmade aids to b* auty. Th*- r* adymade women's wear Industry had just .started on its spoct ocular cours* of cxpanmon. - * • hat for the first tim*- the great mm---*; of women st«*pp* d t? m homemade, frumpy cloth* * into tho-o *-f smart* r | lln***. H it* coubl be procure*! mu. h
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Pueblo Chieftain
Pueblo, Colorado, US
Mon, Apr 04, 1921
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