The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-06-30
COLFAX. GRANT PARISH, La, SATURDAY, JUNE &c. 1888.

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be more elegant than any pattern
of Lyons velvet inappropriately
worn. After all, what is fashion
and style in dress but the refined,
appreclative use of fit materials,
and the most elegant and stylish"
woman is she who has the wit and
exquisite taste to dress to suit the
occasion.
The subject of dress is one Of
supreme importance. Somehow |
have always had supreme con-
tempt for that woman who boasts
that she gives her clothes no
thought, and who positively counts
it q virtue to be out of the fashion,
Inhabited and unsightly of ap-
pearance. It is the privilege of
girl, rich or poor, to be dainty and
neat. She may be a nurse-girl,
earning $40 q month and sleeping
in q cherries room under the roof,
or she may be the self denying, hard
worked daughter of struggling par
ents, OF q rich girl, with everything
at her command-but rich or poor,
high or low, it is her dainty attire,
her tasteful garments, her clean and
wholesome, well-groomed look, that
will make an impression on every
passer-by-every person whom she
meets. A young woman who is
held together by pins, who ties q
dirty ragof lace around her neck In
place of clean linen collar, who
leaves q high-water mark Of pow
der under her chin and behind her
ears-who looks "slicked up" for
the occasion, is the most disagree
able figure in which girlhood can
display itself.
| It is the duty Of every woman.
young or old, rich or poor, homely
| or beautiful, to be well dressed (;
failing in that, she loses in self-re-
spect and self-possession, for it is
quite impossible for any human
woman to be at her best in an in
appropriately worn or unsuitable
or ill-ftting gown. l have known
the Chrome girls, in wild desire
to appear used to things, and rich
and irresponsible, to crumple up
their wells, toss their gloves of in
q wad, and refrain from holding
their skirts out of the mud or from
| contact with q fight or filthy stairs.
They do not comprehend that the
y real refinement shows itself in TAX
| ing care of things, and that all the
instincts of an exquisitely dainty
and refined girl should be to keep
things neat about her. A girl who
carefully folds up her veil and
gloves, who is at q little pains to
keep her gowns fresh and present
able, is far more refined and ele-
CANT than the Chrome girl who will
not eat onions or cabbage because
|, she thinks those edibles vulgar.
There is nothing vulgar in eating
onions Tin private }, or cabbages in
public, but there is. something vul-
gar in mending black dress with
: white thread, in pinning up torn
hounce, in leaving the button I'M
: sewed upon the boot, in failing to
brush dust from q hat or in wear
ing silks and velvets at the wrong
!, time, or in delighting In cheap
|, inery or imitation jewelry.
Camslia Chrome longs for Q black
, silk dress. It is her idea of rich
ness. and elegance. Her appreci-
alton of drapery, of color, is moi
, great enough to enable her to de-
( light in the beauty of soft, grace
full, wooden fabric. Her idea of q
} princess would be q woman who
always wore silk gown, and who
wore diamonds at the breakfast ta-
J BILE. But Camelia would wear point
lace in an omnibus, and sapphire
!, necklace to confession.
81 If Camelia's beau should be Z
!, ! guest in her fathers home she
would come down to breakfast in
brave ribbons and lace ruffie OF
\ ruche in her neck. Her knowledge
of tho art of dressing is not deep
|, enough to teach her that linen
collar fitly worn is more fashiona.
? BILE and elegant than pillows of real
or imitation lace. A calico dress
!, properly made and appropriately
| worn can be as fashionable as 9
r Worth costume, but Camelia Chro
mo would scorn q cotton gown and
| would waar ra0Oed undarclothef