The daily gazette., 1877-10-01
American Girls Abroad. q,
WHY THEY. OUTDREsS AND OUT
SHINE THEIR BRITISH SISTERS
-'tIT IS NOT MONEY THAT y.
MI. DOES TT RIIT n Ae.rrr D. -.

AhE OUTDRESS AND OUT
SHINE THEIR BRITISH SISTERS
-''IT IS NOT MONEY THAT -.
'u'a DOES IT, BUT TASTE.p 'rd "a
From the London Truth, september6.n ie
l take it that there are, many pretty
girls In England as in the United S.aves.
Then why is it that the eye is more at.
tracted in watering places by the Ameri-
can than by English girlsp The reason is
that American giils know how TO dress
and English girlssa;e devoid of all notion
of this most praisewor,h accomplishment
1 am not speaking now of iireclaimably
dowdy girls, out Of girls, who really do
make an effort to fulfill their duty To-
wards .he male sex. These girls, seeern,
.hogever, unable to understand that what
suits one person does not necessarily SUI
everybody. If tall, thin English girl
sees short, dumpy girl in dress that
'sets off her charms to advantage, size ap-
pears soon afterwards In an OK act copy OF
this dress, aud then 'ndulges in the
pleasing delusion that she looks well 10
it. Thus it is that dumpy girls go about
in clothes befitting tall girls, and tall girls
in those befLting dumr girls; that long
faces have hats made for fat faces; that
blondes array themselves in. colors that
look well on brunettes, and brnneGtes In
colors that look we'll on blondes. Now,
American girls rarely fell into these -er-
rors. The other day, at Homburg, was
standing near the spring, talking TO an
American girl, who looked like picture,
so harmoniously did all the colors in
which she was arrayed match,and so pc :
fectly did she seem to make one with
her clothes, like a bird in lis feathe.s.
"How do you manage it?n asked. "The
root of it all is," she answered, "that we
each study cur own Style. We never wear
dress as it comes from a dressmaker,
but we drape it ourselves.
We knowwhat colors match,a and we take
care not to produce discordss Nasure
has not made us all perfect. If we have
too long NECK we reduce it by tying
a piece of lace round it. If We are short
necked we don't dress it high If we
have long faces we don't wear a tall peak
ed hat, but If we Rave round faces, I'VE do.
Most of us have small feet, but if our feet
are large we don't utterly neglect our
shoes and our stockings. Then we never
forge smaller details. We know where
to put bow, w,and we don't have too many
of them. 1r our foreheads are high we
don't draw our hair back, and if they are
low we don't dtag our hair over our eye
brows. We don't wear outlandish jew
elry because we happen to have it. In
deed, we very seldom wear any jewelry
at ali, because it looks vulgar. When we
are tall we wear quantity Of petticoats;
when we are short we wear hardly any.
Our pettiCoats, too, have their fulness in
the back, so our figures are always well
draped, while the petticoats OF English
girls have their fulness in the front, and
this is why their dresses so seldom hang
well.
ssNow look at that lady," and she point
ed to an English woman, to whom nature
had not been unkind, but who fesembled
a handsome giraffe, so tall, so awkward
and so gawky did she seem. "She's got
no petticoats on to speak Of" continued
the American. "Sae makes her face
longer than it is by that hat, and she
makes her cheeks hollow by wearing
long earrings. Her dress is a straight
piece of cloth tied back, and she has no
oyerdress. To save the edges, she has
looped it up over her petucoat, which is
much too short. AS the dress is purple
she must needs wear red stockings, and
as she is fiatfooted she makes her feet
still worse by herilow heels. Her neck
is ugly, for it is long and thin and the
skin all crinkly, so she shows it at its
uoliest by having an open cut dress. Her
arms amt much, and her wrists bony
and quite horrid. AS her sleeves are too
short, her gloves have only two buttons.
Round each of her wrists she has TIED
bit of ribbon, with the ends floating, and
between the ribbons aud her gloves there
is very disastrous interval of red skin.
Ehen, why has she tied that queer bow at
the back of her neck, which makes her
look from behind as if her head had been
put on tile wrong way?Of course,as she is
tall she has very small parasol. NOW,
do lust watch her. She knows she's
got good teeth, so she's always on the
broad grin. If she would just keep to
smiling, her teeth would come in well,
but she opens her mouth like a horse
and shows in a way that's lamentable.-
She's got good eyes, but that is no reason
why she should glare in that bold and
audacious manner at any one who comes
near her."
Then my friend pointed to short,squat
English girl. ''Observe how that fat
giri :" she said, "brings her hair down on
her forehead like Maltese dog. Look at
her round hat, which makes her face still
rounder. She's covered that green dress
ali over with bows and beads and ruff
fles, by which she ddspounds ndponnds
to her natural fat, and it's all jumped up
around her neck so as to make her head
start out direct from the shoulders. She's
got on a black veil with yellow dots on
Il, as if she were brunette, and, as she's
only fixed it with one pin, it hangs all
awry.- Her hair is dressed out behind,
much too large for her style. She's got
on half a dozen petticoats at least to swell
her out. Her belt has quite number OF
attached to it. Her parasol is
big aud covered with bows, and, to take
away even soupcon of waist, she's got
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