FRITZ'S FRAU.

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 839, 28 July 1916, Page 6

FRITZ'S FRAU.

Foreign Fashions Forbidden. THE dragooning mania which jiermanently affects Hun officialdom, is, of course, more than ever to the fronx in these dark days for the Fatherland. The latest edict of the military tyrants is directed'against the "wide skirts" and' other imported styles which the homely German frau persists in wearing, under the amiable delusion... that she can rival the natural smartness of the Frenchwoman and the hated Eng- . lish. At Munich the other day one of the papers waxed quite hysterica] over the unduly short dresses that were worn, by the Municher Dam en. Anyone who has traveled in Sausage Land and) seen the dreadfully thick and ugly "understandings" of the female Hun must wonder at the short skirt being fashionbut just as the Arch Assassin imagines himself to be a true Christian ■ —as witness his recent and blasphemous speech to the Hun chaplains—so poorGretchen, and Anna and Magda fondly believe in attractions which no foreigner is ever able to perceive in,them.. - * * * < < * The short skirt and the wide skirt have to go nevertheless, and, what is worse, anyone who is _ caught importng, reading, or circulating any foreign fashion journal orxfashion drawing will have to dub up £75—if he or she can find such a sum m ready cash in Germany of today —and "go up" for a year's imprisonment. If this awful edict be strictly enforced we shall soon .be hearing of the Hun "Miss Pankhursts" going on a hunger-strike against the continuance of the war. A German woman deprived of her "Weldon" or "Le Courier des Modes" will be a miseraMe creature indeed, almost as miserable as her sausage and lager hubby.