The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-10
Some Plain Questions for Pretty Women
20 Answer.

Why do women with red or yellowish
hair wear ''dead'' gold, and greens that
remind the beholder of badlv-cooked
vegetables? Why do pale-faced,
brown barred women wear the deep red
and orange hues which can ''go'' only
with the olive and pomegranata tints
and the blue-black hair of the south?
Who is accountable for the terrible
terra Gotta garments in which some
otherwise harmless maidens pervade
fashionable crowds, inspiring the OBJ
server with wonder. totally unmixed
with admiration? slender girls arrayed
III shapeless clothes, made apparently
OF slices of the wall of the new Natural
History Museum at South kensington;
strong minded young women in ag-
gressive cloaks, so unspeakably hideous
that we sigh for the ulster Of last sea-
son, which we then believed could not
be surpassed in odiousness; awful things
made Of sage-greeh tweed with blue
frills. or goslitig wooden stuffed tipped
with pink. The eel-skih style has
been Succeeded by the bag, and though
the latter is more decent, it is not much
less ugly. A woman with high, narrow
shoulders, and thin, long arms. might
do better than array herself in black
satin bag. with a running string at the
neck and at the waist 'piping,"
(such we were assured by q sympa-
thetic friend of the offenders own sex,
is the correct term by which to de-
scribe this contrivance,) from which the
skirt hangs shape!ess to within an inch
of the ankles; and she might crown the
editice more becomingly than with
bonnet-or was it hat? like nothing
in a nature except crumbled cab
bage. The ''cozy," as an adjunct to the
tea table, is of dubious elegance as
we'll as unquestionab'e fatal to drink
able tea: but when adapted as cape
to the shoulders of blooming girlhood,
forming straight line across the mid
die of its back and cutting its sleeves
in two just above the elbow, it is the
very most unsightly piece of dress that
can be put on, especially if it is of a
sickly color. Salmon-pink satin, lining
a big bonnet of crinky crinoline, look
ing like half dozen shells joined at
the edges. would be trying to the best
complexion; it was consoling to see it
applied only to the worst. Why should
very pretty lady wear fat gown of
peculiarly repulsiye green in color,
but of rich velvet in material, and over
it hideous camlet cloak of another,
and, if possible. more repulsive green,
with bunch OF yellowish ribbon at the
back, and plush bonnet like the visor
Of q Knights helmet? Why should
writing people. Painting people, sing
ing people, people presumably intelli-
gent, since they all do something that
pleases the public and is paid for in
money, array themselves in garments
of price, indeed -shabbiness is not the
note of the popular affectation-but
which render them distressingly con-
spicuous? These questions cannot fail
to occur to men observing the humors
of select crowd, and especially as the
dress of the "contlict;ng gender tends
more and more to simplicity. OF
course, there will always be affected
male idiots, long and short
haired, with neck-ties that make us
stare, and hats that make us wink by
their brilliancy; but these are the mere
''brats" of society. they are too insig-
nificant to be offensive. -London Spec.
tGtOT.