Women's Dress Bolder Than Ever

1913

Look!

Woman's dress is to be bolder than ever!

In full view of things as they are seen, this would seem to be a rash statement. But it is no mere layman's conjecture from visible fashions. It is the dictum of a man dressmaker, a famous Parisian, whose name is a household word among the modish.

Moreover, this authority does not hesitate at the word "bolder." He goes it a shade better and uses "daring." And if anybody knows, he knows.

Daring is the word that expresses present fashions, which have caused more cricks in the masculine neck than any feminine styles that have prevailed since "the Grecian bend" caused grandfather to forget exactly what he went to the grocer's after. From extant pictures of this curve, it was just the style that grandmother might have worn and kept her mind on serious things. It was but a single curve. But there are many now.

Some apprehension should prevail as to just what "more daring than ever" really means, in connection with woman's fashions, coming and to come. As they are, when a pretty woman intervenes between the sun and a man's vision, the man — unless he is a hardened creature — has to shut his eyes. He can get along on a cloudy day with a few blushes, interlarded with thought. But if worse comes to worst — although this might disappoint the ladies — man must take to the woods or neglect his business. — Judge.