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•heur this 14 and requiree. fou-chin*.• WR“,htyle.mailed10c in♦• • • • * ♦•• •• ^ ♦• ••• ^ ♦.... * ♦ ♦Ml tv”r Syn-lied to is fromwaterin aiv. dish,.'ale nee ror -hip lv ear-ko be-i.itlons. or the itorlal-fn an*] worelover-s. the Kmc ni-UIH1 IMIilil}The question seems to be up for debate. The paper* ure full of scandalized proteal s against the way the flcp-pen* drew, and there are movement on foot for making high school gir;-*. office girl*. hop girls, and girl.* in general, dresa morv modestly. The r formers, who are hark of this movement, proclaim that the morals of the American male aro menaced, that he L* upoot and led astray by the spectacle of feminine beauty at it* moot striking age. Counsel for the defense ( a .-u rt-s that it is tho inalienable right of women to make h* rself Just as attractive a« she can. that the man whole morally ruined by lipstick and silk stockings has no soul worth waving anyway, and that most of the rlt; formers who feminine dres- are old1 idles, in spirit if not in fact, w ho areenvious of bl ommg youth.They assert that the modem flnpper has done nothing te*s than to add to the Joy and the beauty of the world by learning how to make her * If attractive. You have only to look at some old pictures, they say. to realize what an enormous transformation has been worked in -*0 years, and even in 10.Whh. they ask. really wants to gohark to the days of cotton stockings, skirts dragging In the dunt. hair pulled tight and shiny nose?Uosi \v:t« Pninl—And Skirt*For ome reason, the cosmr’i'-s »nd clothes seem to have ittracted mor**- andaliz* d attention than any of th« other flapperlsms 1‘erhaps her crlties feel that if she could he fully clothed ind denied the use of cosmetics, reform .would follow as a matter of bourse \t iny ra’e, many high schools are now-trying If. S« hool authorities m \nr-loua cities have recently come to the nd of distressed parent - by insisting that '‘immodest” clothing. r-uge. pow -der. and lipsticks, te birred from the schools. In tho fashionable seminaries the same sort of embargo hue teen .hastily rlt; ared.Yet the flapper I* not without her defenders, even among her own All this hue and cry about cosrro-tic* and clothes is outrageously llv in nr-opinion,” declares a New York society matron, whose suh-ded years occurred about the time of the Spanish-Am* rl- j can war. ‘It's worse than that bt»*e ingratitude. Whj v ' .per hris performed a gr*'at servi ■* fori tir r country t\ raising the Mandard of feminine beauty. You should have con us back In 1-S90—plain and prim and proper. It was all right If you happened to be born beautiful, of iitrsp, but if you didn't happen to be. there was not a thing you could do ibout it Rouge nnd lipstick* w« re outof the question, while halr-dye was unmentionable even in the family circle.“Hero, look at these,’* «he said, handing us an old-faahioned album.containing laughable portiaitu of thepompd ur period.“There am I at eighteen.’* aaid th*1host. pointing to the photograph of i f* d i \ • i •{ a in **'! hearing with a path it •miln the weight of a tremendous. straight pompadour. “I huto to eonf* *.s it. but that is who it is. TliaL ixpr -“ion of patient sweetness must.1 f'lUU * Ml 111' III*'* U l * \tw I UMiH Uth” new st; pe of flapper first begtUl to appear about 1310 At tbit time. , face powder wtx placed openly upon the f* intnlne dr* sslng table, oft* n brazenly accompanied by a tin box f theatrical rouge. For the firr*t time, also, silk stocking* became popular for everyday wear among the women of the middl% class. Before that. th*'y had not been considered altogether r* -upecUbl. With them came ih*' Merry Widow hat, th-- slit skirt, bright colors and curly hair. In the old days, if a. young woman’s h ilr was straight, it w us consider* .1 ui affectation to curl it.Many things were responsible for tho birth of the new er \ of handmade aids to b* mtv. The readymade women's wear industry had just .start*m1 on tt.s spoc xculor cour.-- . f expansion. * ’hat for the first lime • he great rn.u « of women si'mP1 d from homemade, frumpy clothes into those of -un.trt* r | line*. H it- could be procured much cheaper in the r* tail stores than th* y could be made by untrained milliner*.| But perhaps the most Important factor 'of all w ls th‘ birth of the moving picture industry v th P.* * irI -4 a.r« 1. starry-ewd heroine*, which broug* t th* art of ■ i-*i:p r« ’: v hr for** 'gaze of thousand* of admiring flappersIn the obi days of the 19th contury. ther© v beauties, but they -a extremely rare. That I* why they created such a furore Today, charm Is so usual am !..* the feminine population that it pi tht homely girl who I startles. Th«* new flappers con pr*»-I dure a eertain amount of good looks .i- •sadly a.* we produce watches ari l breakfast food. It la no trouble at all to b** attractive, if you know the su-t of improvementIn th** old day? if a flnppor had i dull mouse-colored hair or a sallow complexion, \\-.us paddled with| those ban.Heaps f* r life. Today, a girl can chooee her own complexion and coloring, and buy them at tho merest beauty parlor. Tho now flappers. you will notice, are nearly all tdon 1 nr Titian-haired. They know their henna. Their eyebrows aro neatly plucked; Ihelr eye* d* fily shadowed their hair lt;Inborately dressed, their lips ffinoothly crimson. \rnl with her n w beauty has come a now Independence, a new carriage, a new dcpoftnieut —pop.Tke line Imrrlrxn *1a«irrplrr»AS a result, the Unltod States tod *v i« noted f**r having the largest supply • f feminine pulchritude in tho world. No other nation can competo with u.* In this respect. It is our one distinctive form of art. At least, such is tho rather doubtful compliment puid u« by our foreign visitors.When question, d a* to what ho considered the inool striking feature*of this country, t*- recent celebratedKnglish visitor promptly replied: Those of tho young women. I huvo not .seen one actually homely girl.” I’jmj! Ilelleu. a noted FYonch por-tr;ut irtist. whose specialty Li pa nt-ing blt; lutiful women, ha.-« k oimilnr vi« w‘There aro no girl* **f any other country, • v**n my nativ* Frane* *vHe*.lt; beauty cqu«m that of the wom*-n of i America, ho *-«yi«, “and I huvo found the most beautiful among what you ill your middle .It kbovo thomiddle class bctutv i rare. You will
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Pueblo Chieftain
Pueblo, Colorado, US
Mon, Apr 04, 1921
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