Fashion Foibles (1930)

Fashion, the willo the wisp, has only one unbreakable rule the rule of outline. In the days of Eve, outline was unmistakable (shot missing here). In ancient Egypt, the rigid line seems to have been introduced, but the basic idea was the same as in Eve s case the garment hung from the (this shot also missing). A distinct contrast, say, from the hard riding Amazons of the Row today L, S of women walking in the park and riding horses ( Rotten Row ) M, S of three girls sitting on park seats. Greece contributed the next change to fashion her learned men seemed shocked at the scantiness of skirts, so legs went out of Woman holding a lyre ( ) is silhouetted against a curtain. Quite a contrast to M, S of a row of women s legs. One wears boots, the others shoes and stockings. One of the women stands up and walks away. War and turmoil followed civilisation around the earth and a thousand years ago women stayed near protective battlements and clothed