The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-01-31
Worth. the Nan ii,iiner.

ever head and very prominent lore
sad. His brown eyes are singolarly .
,rewd in expression. and their seizure of "
etail is surprizing-that is for man. :.
5 rule, men have no more eye for de- f
III than owls have for the sun. Worth {
.kes you in at glance, and knows what d
our style ought to be, which Is such /
9mfort When I 20 to dressmaker. i
don't care to '.work my passage. > |
want to order my harmony in one or two
.olors, and to encounter brains equal to
he occasion. Worth's taste. when al
owed full play, is irreproachabie, Il
prefer simplicity to anything else" he !
saws, but there are women who don't
believe in the value Of dress unless 1t
is Loaded with trimming, They drive
me mad, for they can't take advice
Now, what is becoming to one person.
is hide0us when worn By another. l !.
study to make the best out of a subject |
given me. as, unfortunately, we can't |
have people made to order, can we! TT
[ had my own way all women should be
slight, graceful and pretty. Then, dress
ing would be an artistic pleasure. A
dress should never oyerpower the wearer.
1t should merely be an appropriate frame
for a charming picture. bringing ent the
beauties of the picture, but never de-
tracing attention fromit. So few women
understand this. Why, when | find l
can make a costume for less money than
had been agreed upon, | actually annoy
ed clients by telling them 50. They
think it cannot be as handsome as it
ought to be, and they would rather have
more material added, however much the
design might be marred, than pay less.
| assure you this is a fact. Consequent
", when | meet ladies' who know that
dressing is an art, take very great sat-
isfac,ion in them as patrons. 1t isn't
every woman who knows how to wear a
dress. When | have done my best, [
try to make my client do her best by
seeing her walk and sit down To walk
with style is rare enough; bat when it
comes to being able to sit down in dress
properly-well, there is not many equal
to that I can tell you. Then. women
think they ought to have number OF
dresses, and would rather be seen every
day in a new toilet however hideous,
than wear one dress however becoming.
There never was greater mistake. II
your frame is appropriate, stick to it
Don't be getting out of it, and trying
experiments. | have just made dress
for Madame Nilsson, in which she appear:
better than I ever saw her before, and
have begged her to wear that dress con.
; stantly in Russia, if she wants to pro
duce a most charming effect. As she i,
, sensible, [ think she will lake my advice
which, you perceive is against my inter
ests, Tut, gracious me, money is not my
only object. Art is intended to beautify
nature, not to deform it.
You appreciate how fine an artist
Worth is, BY going to his villa at Suresne
It is one Of the maryels Of Partisan sub
urbs. | never saw such harmony O
ensemble, every bit fitting into every
other bit as though it were mosaic
Worth has been his own architect. gar
$ dener, designer, upholster. There not
? carpet nor a curtain that he did no
invent. Stufs and chairs have beer
made for him, and for him only. The
hangings in his library are works Of ar
in the way of embroidery. The rare oil
china. which is Worth's particular frenzy
and with which many of the walls art
inlaid, would drive Mr.. Gladstone mac
with delight The eye is perpetuolly
gratifed, and when you step into tn
garden. the view of Paris, the Bots Dc
Boulougno, and the country for miles
around, is a dream of beauty.
This villa lies directly beneath Mon
Valerein, the finest sight in the neigh.
borhood of Paris. Then there are ruin;
II the garden, made out of stones, pillars
and statuary, brought from Tuileries
and bought by Worth after the Com
mune has done its worst. Seated on 6
lovely terrace made out Of the imperial
wreck, listening to an Eolian harp, gaz-
! ing at the city of splendor at my feet,
and breathing air stepped in glorious
sunshine. l passed one of the most
charming afternoons Of my life. Worth
in quaint, flowing gown and skull cap,
? that made him look tremendously like
Iogarth. entertained the Duchesse de
-- and ourselves with stories of
the Commune, and when We left we
were Grmly convinced that one Of the
clcyercst men in England had produced
in this century is Worth, the dress max
cr.-Kote Field.