WHY WOMEN WEAR CAPES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 286, 29 August 1919, Page 4

WHY WOMEN WEAR CAPES

"Why do women wear capes nowadays? Because they are fashionable?" he asked. Silly ninn! Modern womon must.liko a garment before they allow it to become fashionable. AVe liko capes, and the time has come when'wo can wear them. Capes could never have been a war fashion. Why? • Because—it is rather a confession!—wb can be a little of a posouse in a cape, and in war days' our hearts were heavy. But now! We can wrap our capo around us, assume an aloof expression, and be frigid as an iceberg. We can hitch our enclosed right hand towards tho left shoulder awl make ourselves elegant and slim as a sapling. Wo can throw back our capo on the shoulders and be arrogant as an exKaiser in Ills most "high and mighty" days. We can crook the elbow—ilileraily —knowing comfortably that the cape will tike folds and lines a sculptor mightenvy. We care riot for the stirring of breezes beneath nur cape, for they lend dash and swagger and a cavalier air. , Yes, a'most adaptable garment is the •;ape. The swashbuckler of many ages had one. : Each Puritan woman wore 0110 setting out .to seek an unknown and a new England. Little powdered, painted, patched, perfumed minxes in rosy taffetas dormed a cape before olicking along on their little red heels to their waiting «hair. Tho only time tho oapo has beou known 10 fail seems to be for workaday uso in speedy modern life. In support of that, remember tho abandonment of the bmnet and capo of Army and V.A.D. nurses for the more convenient coat and ekirt. . A hard-wearing garment tho capo might have b<wn in slowly moving Puritan days, but not in these get-along-(luickly timet). No-.v, it is a whim, an expression of our moods. t . And as suoh, it reigns for the moment supreme. Women wear capes because they are fashionable! Silly, unthinking man!— Olive Don't, in (lie "Daily Mail." . ■