填空题. Wholly aside from aesthetic and moral considerations, fashion is an economic absurdity, and there is little to be said in its favor. Nevertheless, we can appreciate the wisdom in Gina Lombroso's belief the enormous stress which women lay on everything pertaining 12 with clothes and the art of personal adornment is connected with the 13 tendency to crystallize sentiment into an object. Woman symbolizes every important event in her life by a special dress; and a jewel or a beautiful gown means to a woman that an official decoration means to 14 a man. The temptation of dress is the last step in the ceremony to the novice 15 has to submit before entering the cloister. The memory of the gown which she might have worn was the strongest temptation that assailed St. Catherine before she took her solemn vows—a gown, embroidering 16 with gold and stars, like that her sisters had worn, which her 17 grandchildren would have gazed with eyes filled with wonder and 18 admiration... If a woman's clothes cost the family and society a little time, money and activity, they allow woman, independent in lies and 19 calumnies, to triumph and come to the tore outside of man's world and competition. They allow woman to satisfy with her desire to be 20 the first in the most varied fields by giving her the illusion that she is the first, and at the same time enable her rival to have the same 21 illusion. Clothes absorb some of woman's activity which might otherwise be diverted to more or less worth-while ends; they give woman real satisfaction.