“Jane,” say I, “I am a reporter representing American inquisitiveness. Why do all of you dress the way you do?”
“I don’t know,” says Jane. This reply means nothing: it is just the device by which the younger generation gains time to think. Almost at once she adds:
“The old girls are doing it because youth is in. Everybody wants to be young, now–though they want all us young people to be something else. Funny, isn’t it?