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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1913)
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VA per fectly logical development of the X-ray skirt and the even mere enormous head-dress." By GABY DESLYS. Paris, September 12. I LOOK about at tho fashions. I see the X-ray gowns becom ing even more X, the X-ray shoes that Bhow the little toes, the silt gowns that reveal les Jambes,' and I ask -why? 1 study tho trend, carefully, and at last I come to a conclu sion. It Is "Why not? I decide to design some future fashions, the logical outcome, of the fashions that am I conceive that the fashions that are, have their Inception In tho great sow awakening and the old cowardice of women. And I say I will' wake them up more, and I will relieve them of their cowardice. It & wow an desires to wear the slit gown, why aot do away entirely with that untidy subterfuge and part tho gown as well. Voilal At once I Invent this charming walking dress you see. I say. If my sisters deslro to wear the diaphanous dresses for teas,, boudoirs and tangoes, why not develop this dlaphanous uess. And, Voilal I invent again. 3 invent much, all future .fashions, which I hope to enhoarton jny sisters to wear. You will observe that each is, in a manner, of the current mode just a little less of some things, a little more of others. But at once the fashions of the future. Pour montrez les Jambes-if they arc beautiful from the knee down, why should they continue to be so carefully con cealed? Why not show them pourquol paB? I, Gaby, aok the question Why not? Thus It is settled. For is it not seen every where in tho big cities of Europe and America that the great dressmakers are agreeable? Have they not provided tho slit at the bottom of the. skirt? And is not that slit steadily grow ing more complaisant, stretching Itself more and more In the direction of the knee, and becoming constantly bolder In its display of innocent charms which for so long were wasted on insensible lingerie? Vralment, 11 faut que nous falsons voir les Jambes. All of us who have the presentable kind flnd it necessary, to be in the fashion, to lot them se seen. That fs the direction of fashion's Btrong current. Why should one try to swim against It? We have them. We are not ashamed of them enfln, we know that no human eye can rest upon them without experiencing sensations of aesthetic pleasure. Therefore, why should we be cruel? . It cannot bo charged that wo thrust them luddenly upon' the vision of an unprepared worm as the Spartan ladles did at the command of Lycurgus. No. We led np to the grand moment ot unselfishness by imperceptible degrees. First we discarded the crinoline which left the fact nf their exlstonco more than doubtful. By nar rowing the skirt we permitted them to become suspected thus avoiding the shock ot absolute fliscovery. For more than a generation we waited for the suspicion to become .familiar. Thus it pas that when I, Gaby, and Mile. Dorgere, and the lamented Lantelme, and others ot our cour ageous and humane circle, demonstrated with the hobble and the harem skirts, with the result that very shortly all the feminine world followed our example, quite easily and with out disaster, the suspicion became a certainty. Yes, without question, women, no less than men, had legs. If you reflect you will perceive how true it is that for ten years at the least montrez les Jambes has been autocratic fashion's most rigorously enforced command, As the outermost draperies embraced more and more closely, from beneath the clinging gown underskirts and petticoats and other impediments to a revelation of nature's outlines disappeared. Only (he folds ot the narrowing outer skirt remained to render vague the graceful curves of (he silk-clad leg. The grand moment ot complete revelation was approaching but not too fast mals oon! It is not only the drama that rejoices in Its possession of the element of revelation, at suspense. The dressmaker's art shares that inestimable advantage. There was sus pense and grace in the molding of corsets, as faithfully as a coat of thin plaster, to the surves of the hips. Over this the thin fabric ojt the gown clung without a wrinkle. Now you will understand the purpose ot those bunchy oversklrt effects and short, wide ;oata reaching hardly below the hips and worn with the closest clinging gowns pour glor titer les i jambes, that was the secret; at the expense of some grace about the waist, to add Gaby's New bathing Suit. "The tendency in- bathing suits is certainly more and more toward display, and loss toward use," she says. "Why not work this out to its logical limit?" "And if you like fringe, why not wear lots of it?" CAnyrlght, m, by the Star Company. emphasis to In fact, to glorify what the narrow, clinging gown so charmingly sug gested, namely, the legs. In tho smart set of Paris, or London, or New York, where will you note a house gown, & tea gown, any evening gown, that is a la mode, which leaves remaining any possibility of shock? ) So ;et us proceed to the supremo moment wunoui iurtner nnesse. auggesuon nan, as you Americans say, gone tho limit; the estimable dramatic element of suspense has been squeezed to the last drop. If they are beautiful, montrez les jambes show the legs. Why not? Why shtfuld we be so coy with that little silt at the hem of the skirt? Courage, mes amis, le dlable est mortl Therefore, I, Gaby, aided by the truthful camera, appear before you here in no less than nve distinct variations of that supreme moment which we have been so gradually and humanely approaching. Voilal Feel Bhocked I defy you! In the bare-armed effect, with filmy harem trousers widely cut out In front nearly to the knees, the skirt, you will obnorvo, is retained, but at the smalTest possible ex pense to the main object In view, Note how, although it really ends at the hips in a rigid hoop, which accentuates the taper ing curves downward to the ankles, there are festoons of braid and bits ot fringe depending two or three inches apart, which overcome somewhat the general effect of scantiness. Great Britain Illshts It - Perhaps I am not quite courageous in this example. But it may bo understood that the slit In each trouBor leg is to be made longer and broader as its useful ness fades, There are really only two ob jects gained by these revelations allure ment and usefulness. The ollt trousor, of course, has not tho latter excuse, for trou sers are easy to walk in already without being slitr The other examples approach tho logical conclusion both In tho way of graco and use. Upon the street freedom of movement for les jambes be comes moro and more necessary, while there are moro and moro automobiles to be es caped at crossings. ' 'Cro nom des plods 1 " How can one jump at the screech ot the toonk" when the legs are bandaged by unnec essary draperies? Come, are we not permitted to saye our lives? Because there Is an ancient tradition that we have no legs, must wo permit them to be mangled by rubber tires, and, maybo, removed in sorrowful truth by a doctor In tho hospital. Is it not true that tho chauffeurs also are human? Have not they' also the aesthetic sense? Wheu they discover the allurement of les jambes exposees, will they not be In clined to break their own ppcIcb rather than to risk the disfigurement ot such charms? So I have been quite candid In my sugges tions. At present posBlbly you may accept them with diffidence. But with familiarity their loglo will satisfy you, until Ah, out- ot a certainty there must be prog ress In allurement Eh bten when what I show you here has ceased to satisfy all your desire for that which is beautiful in nature, silken-clad, It la not beyond the possibilities that I, Gaby, dofender of both allurement and utility, may once more rise to the occasion! "Metronome" Cure for Neurasthenia BytftiM THE brain and body ot the neurasthenic are always working at "express train" rate. You may put your patient to bed, keep tho relatives awny, rob life of every petty Worry, feed, guard, doc tor, drug with all the vivifying tonics over brewod, but you will never do an atom of good unjll you make that marvollous com plicated bit ot psychic mnchlnery the mind work with rythm; until you raako your patient realize he or she must slacken tho thoughts as ho or she is slackening the muscles. Tho easiest Illustration of this lack ot rhythm, which I have noticed In each case of neurasthenia I have nursed, Is to put a perfectly working clock on an unlevel shelf. The pendulum will swing for a time, but the regular "tlck-tock- will be replaced by a sound like "tlck-a-tock-tlck." The clock may continue working for a time, but as an .unreliable timekeeper, and it will Boon stop. The neuraBthenio suffers in the same way. The eystematie "tlck-tock" of the mind's machinery Is changed to ''tlck-a-tock-tlck." Learn how to restore the methodical move ment and you have solved the problem. I would set a metronome by the bedside ot the neurasthenic. I would pull up the weight to the tiptop ot the baton, and I would try to teach my patient to regulate his thought by that steady, slow, mosoto nous "tlck-tnrV