Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-19
NEconomx i'm Dress.


 A dress that is so peculiar AS to be striking, either from it's brill fancy of color or any other cause, should be adopted only by woman who has many changes of raiment, and so may wear it only occasionally, or the sight of 1t becomes bore, even if at first it is interesting from its novelty. The woman who has many dresses can afford also to give 1t away or convert it to some other use before it is worn, while the unobtlu- sive dress easily lends itself to some diff ferent adiustment, which gives it Gn en- tlrely new aspect.
 A woman who has but one best gown can "wear it with difference" like ,he rue Ophelia offers to her brother, so q, to make it suitable to many occasions, especially If she have two waists, or "bodies," as the English call them. One skirt will easily outlast two waists, and, therefore, this Is a real saving. But suppose that there he but one waist, ol the dress be made all in one piece (than which there is no prettier fashiohl and It should be worn one day high iu the neck, with collar and cufls, on nno!le, day with the neck turned in, anl lac, or muslin ticlIu gracefully adjusted witt. bows or flowers. and bit of lace at the wrists, p.sir of long gloves, and a nor elaborate dtessiug oI the EGir, 1t will b scarcely recognizab C. Brt t,.e dreS must be of very general character, lis, black silk, or some dark color. or til. pleasure of inc new iInDres ion is iust.
 Tho wise per,on with small c;a ita never buys but q gnod and lasting ing Il. | l. n solid possessions to her wardrobe, wh c! treated with care, last her many y~arA Thus on a really small su sho nla. dress very henItiiGiiv. Without a capi tai one is often obliged to buy what cal last but few months Lut there choice even here.
 There is certainly great economy i 6 womau's ado, ting for occasions ( ceremony one dress from which a never divcrges. It becomes her cha acteristic, and there is even kind |, style and beauty in the idea. Tn changing fashions in color and materia pass without affecting her. She is never induced to buy anything because it is new. She is always the same. Tn, dress in this case must have certain simplicity. It )sts her little thought and little time, and when the old edi- ton, becoming worn, gives way to the n9w, the change Is not perceived, nor Is 1t noticed when the new in its turn be comes old.
 Such dress as this must of course lie within certain limits. Suppose it to be black velvet it would last, with care at least five or six years. Suppose 1t to ha ryhifa oe oll cost it could, with cere, last two sea- sons; and then, cleaned, last another season or two; and then, dyed, bs turned into walking dress to last two seasons more.
 If dress Is put on with grace, it's owner alone is aware of its defects, and it is kindness to the spectator if she will keep her own secret
 In France, and I believe also in Italy, they have poetic fashion of dedicat,ng for certain number of years Give, ten or twenty years, according to the parents fancy) young girls to the Vir- gin. do not know in what way they demonstrate this dedication, except in the color of their dress, which is al- ways, for all occasions, summer or win ter, blue or white, or white and blue mixed. This affords more variety than at first thought 1t would seem to be ca- rable of, for any shade of blue may be used.
 There is a great economy in deciding on few becoming colors in their sev- al shades and confninG one's dress to these. Choosing colors that harmoniEe with each other-like gray, black, pur- pie, blue, yellow, white-and never buy ing any other co -ors, one may, in making over garments, use one with another, so tiiat nothing is wasted.
 1t is also important to know what point of dress to emphasize. For in- staaoa, one may expend large sum on gown, and if the shoes are shabby or ill mace, the gloves wo-n, and the bon net lacks style, the gown is enti.eiy thrown away. But the gown may be n1 longer new; it must now be carefully brushed and we'll put on the collar and cuffs, or other neck and wrist trimmings must be in perfect order; the boots well made and well backed, even if not new the gloves faultiess, and the bonnet neat and stylish. The effect is of a we'll ! dressed woman no man, and very few women, perceive that the dress IS not a new one.-Nrs. r " Dea0i11g, in Rar- | DeT'S Nq1dzine.