The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1922, Page 25

ee Short or Long Skirts — What Is the Verdict Ot New York Women « A Writers of To-Day’s Lett-rs All Say “ “Keep Them Short.’ fortable and around. “Knickerish'y yours “A READER OF YOUR PAGE.” satisfactory all It’s about time women were inde- pendent about dresses,” one girl writes, “and refused to accept any and every stvle, regardless of its beauty and practicality.” well written argument: “Dear Miss Wells—I am fond of short skirts; that is, by that I do not mean skirts that are two — inches above my knecs or level ’ with my knees Two inches or By Margery Wells three inches below the knees ts ight, 1922 (New York Evening World) fine.’ : > by’ Press Publishing Company: “Yes, | wish they would etay in Y far the larger majority of the — style. It is a sensible, clean and girls who write about long skirts Lat ot seengorn style. Long skirts, versus short skirts want to hold PTSkint®, (ravi on the praune m to the ones that are short. And skirts, | change my mind a whole me men are writing in to add their lot, but 1 am not going to change ote for the further appearance of my mind’ and wear long skirts. || hort, trim skirts. would use sense and follow their Here is one letter from a girl who inclinations and not what jows well enough what she wants: irre ane it ane : At My Dear Miss Wells:-—Long haa, skirts are absolutely NIL. They look like the deuce in ‘Jong ai] must not be—they cannot be, for Ro girl who realizes how pretty, graceful and becoming short skirts are will ever advocate the return of ong dresses. “Ot course long skirts are not ‘at all pretty either—but the aver- age short skirt—reaching the calves of a girl's legs, certainly is more charming than the ankle length. Why should a young girl with em ankles and | pedal extremities conceal her legs with an awkward appearing, in- convenient Think how much more and trim—how infinitely more active is a de- cently short skirt. Why, the ankle length—or almost ankle length—is out of the question, it is not at- tractive, and I think it is the clumsiest looking, most untidy garment I have ever seen. “Fashion may decree as she ehooses—Paris may drop her skirts until they trail around the ground at her feet. Fads may ‘drape. and panel the swirling skirts to the nth degree, but | am here to say that | will NOT wear long skirts—never, never, never. If the frocks that one buys are long—I have several girl friends who agree with me—then a / needle; thread and a pair of scie- pors will remedy that. “Imagine hastening after our )rhorning train (yes, we commute) with a long, drapy skirt—or even long, straight skirt! Imagine it if you can—we can't. And just Imagine golfing in a tweed to our nkles—picture us at a slushy treet or soad crossing. It would be a case of getting slopped or fting the skirts to our knees. ‘Try to fancy the extremely tall, slim girl whose skirts have al- ready done much to modify her height, wearing long, slinky Gresses! Absurd! Imagine the very short, very dumpy girl with @ long panelled and draped skirt —one would think she was the well - known humpty - dumpty caught in a balloon, and about to topple. Idiotic! There is abso- lutely, NO point in favor of long ekitts—except for babies and old, old cronies “| won't wear them. WE won't wear them. The so-called flapper of to-day is an independent, intel- should what kind of skirts ligent, free-thinking, self-willed . they we nd not let the Poor Mauna ladyerehe willl not allow’ | ,ha OF Hane: tell us what we Lanvin, Poiret nor Jenny to say: vere Menlvoveine, *You must wear long skirts,” and “Mrs. M. L. § then go about and wear them. drapery? neat att . (WA WuL, PHOTO. skirts, and besides who wants long, trailing outfits on them? Besides, if long skirts are to be worn, pity us in the subway. There would be accidents every day, and hesides lots of unneces- vary cussing and wasting of time and money and thoughts. “French designers can't talk a lot of bosh. It's for their own pockets they e skirt and trafler, the r suc~ cess is attained. American women Poor Paris! coming to young and and is clean an nitary shell, They are impos ulous and | will them. ly ridic- have none of 7 i independent about dresses and ‘“ “If only Miss Young America refused to accept any and every 4 is with me—then the Yankee girls style regardless of its beauty and will wear what they choo practicality. “Are you with me, girls? . “Short Skirtedly Yours, but about seven to nine inches “PG from the ground. ; “Let us show some individ- Well, from some more of the letters ality, A READER ft looks as though Miss Young Amer- = Then from out of town there “a were with this young lady. There this cryptic note to say what the l@ro others just as vehement in thelr ! the country are thinking munciations of the long-akirteg "dca! change in style: ode, I wonder if it is because they fmve never worn longer skirts and wear short ski % [gon't know how really well they can only kind that make walking : healthy and pleasant. H. 0." bod ik in them! This, then, is e of the mass o| % ‘Here is just an extract from another evidence in favor of the sb skirts pleading that long skirts shall that we have liked and been hap! + "as a costume for the American These girls, evidently, are not ha 3 to allow short skirts to be 4 “Pidace let's be sensible just into the discard. Are you ‘once and etick to a style or against them? jo all of us, young and old, it Proved to be the most com- Let m esting, Some one else cames along with this CON gushingly on the pore menta Park, re, The longer the motto Home—That's Why We 'There,"* expressed their gratification that it was not green lawns, scum on the marsh lands this might in- ontented but remembering th No, she will wear just exactly the Another letter says: lanathivakirs ahet iene pleaser, | Surely women have _ never : “That! h ' looked as smart and well dressed at's what think about ag they have in the past few long dres: summed up in a nut- year: The stylo has been be- fure real estate values, she ¢ he Craig beautiful ld alfice “It is about time women were the Cac “When | speak of short dresses )°"!n8 1 do not mean extremely short, burst of kissed Mrs, Jen women fill in with ak cannot girls about this But Mrs, Jare eart She was truly “I want to tell the world that 7s wharges of as long as | wish to walk | shall They are the at least home know ate The argument is growing inter- A W ould sthoress skirt morning. which is long into dirt when she is walking or going down steps ought to be sent to a reformatory for thirty days to dancing or sitting or be worked hard in the laundry. If her skirts are clean let her : wear them any length she thinks makes her look best MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS. and God bless us all. short skirts are If retained, what should be their height above the ground? Extreme heights have been six- teen and even seventeen inches, in- dicated in the photographs by the upper white line. The average conservative height to-day is about twelve inches, in- dicated by the middle white line. Sophie Kerr Underwood yester- day set nine inches as the conser- vative limit, indicated by the lower white lines. : What proper height? do you consider the Copyright, 1 and this Mrs. greeted her is Gladys,” Jarr, as Mrs, ast Mala prominent subi The leader and clubwoman could hardly express her heartfelt joy Mrs. young friends Mrs. Jarr had brought with her, Jarr and the two The Misses Cackleberry, was “There's No and how delightful the country was at this time of the emerald green the lawns around them year and were. Mrs. Jenkins was about to explain but the ull about, If with reply Avenue neve oked Mrs. Jarr was so instead of feminine again think of anything ay for a held no guile twenty m nearer in Philadelphia “How sweet of you all to comet" gushed Mrs. Jenkins again, “And thoug . Just you wouldn't mind it, f a jolly 1g on ourselves know, too, you will be glad that don’t make company of you. You'll all be part of the family!” Mrs. Jarr felt a littl What Maria. Thompson Daviess Thinks About Long Skirts ‘Send Wearer to hcformatory. Every woman who wears a noon and night enough to sweep prison The Jarr Family By Roy L. 2 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Company. ND this is Irene Cackleberry said Jenkins three visitors of her home iQ Install- ban society in greeting charming whoso Place Like Are Never how Forest more yy to have s visiting Mts that in a enthusiasm she Generally ss when they piteful to minute or so In greeting glad to have her fair months past their nervous at THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, By Maurice Ketten Can You Beat It! of aren Fork sain Worley Co mes SSS iG TELL M “Uns ANE abil hanin | COULD NEVER ) Ger HIM nw 16 LS? TEN O44 oy) 16) ASO! ORY 4 -- 2) The Fast Dope From Some- body’s Old Home Town in Each and Every Item—No Blanks, McCardell By Neal R. O’Hara. thin; top abe knaw well that ond oan Win soi elew Sek Weentue World) look out for a most unhappy time by’ Press Publishing Company when those we visit offer to make us OS ANGELES.—Mr. Kid McCoy, one of the family. The two Miss Ib the ring expert, tunes up for Cackleberry cast furtive glances ninth jump into connubial swim- around at the Jenkins highly yarnish- Ming pool. Mr. McCoy is a ring cx ed parlor furniture and wondered how pert both w solitaire and padded long {t would be till dinner time and arena acquiring his ninth mate, what would be the quality and quan met RDP, He Rose not expect to go into extra innings tity of Mrs. Jenki ine? NEW YORK.—Mr. De Wolf Hop- i per declined to comment on Mr. Mc Suddenly Miss Irene Cackleberry, Coy's latest coup beyond admitting who had turned her glance to outdoor that the Kid 1s clever. nature in East Ma remarked PETROGRAD.—Lenin not reported “My, what a pretty cottage over the dead or dying to-day, way! I do love those old-fashioned NEW YORK.—Gum slot machine lattice windows with those dear ol: justry decides to have dictator, hke antique bull's-eye panes of gla weball and movies. Offers job to “Humph!"? rejoined Mrs. Jenkins Houdini at 75,000,000 cents a year. somewhat acridly, ‘That's the Peep ZERO GULCH, Alaska.—Ierdinand ley house. Mrs. Peepley and her two ‘bweetie, eminent fashion arbiter of unmarried sisters, her mother and h « decrees that goloshes shall be threes unmarried daughters, are « r zher and more unbuckled by standing at the windows looking ov ed flappers this year. he through opera glasses It tsn't b anes aS YOU Suppose oer be cua all a Cid ive NEW YORK. —Legless peggars folks!" remarked Mre eee pees Berner tone “IT should te ne hs dung, Mrs. Jenkins, 1, will drive them over the hill lava owinek ed : poorhouse in Hmousine men are. They don't ive WASHINGTON.—Anti - Saloon anything to do ull da ta hi © cancels subscription to Lit on their neighbors ht, € Digest too! And as for a telephe ell, W SCRANTON.—Coal operators are all have party lines out in this part of jeaving no stones unturned to supply town, und T do not see how radi tomers with winter fuel. Slat phones could have more listeners in 8 Ko back to mines Heelan am not ind LONDON.—Col. 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