Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-06
MRS. LANGTRY ON DRESS.
This English Beauty Gives New York
Women Some Suggesti0ns-Ips
Gn Easy Thing, She Ssys,
p Dr.ss Well and BeoomlngIy without
Attracting AtteEton-Tha Atrocious
Article Of DE5ss Called the Bustle.
Now York Mail and Express.

and the mslaris was lying low, mrs.
Langtry amused herself by giving short
lecture on "Dress.n She had not long
been awake, and her maid was helping
her up to 40 easy chair by the open fire
Of sputtering hickory logs, and giving her
her coffee and rolls. The two bare white
feet were thrust in brocsded dressing
slippers with high heels, perfectly sim
pie dressing gown of heliotrope cashmere
was thrown on over the short sleeved
pink batiste gown, and her long red
brown hair was hanging in q single thick
brsid. as she sank back and put her
toes Oh the fender, groaning cheerfullY
from the pain it caused her to move, she
looked for all the world like big pix
Her Mai ,sty vosp, heavy and sweet.
When she WAS q little girl, Mrs. Langtry
SAYS, sne used to look well about an hour
6,day. The rest of the time she was sim
ply fragile, delicste-featured child whom
"aob0dy thought would ever grow to De
the rsving beauty have since become"
she continues, with funny air Of minc-
ing vanity.
''Sometimes," she said, ~ do not know
which to blame the most, the dressmakers
thsE cut every gown they make like an
other, or the women who let them. Now,
you have square shoulders, and isn't it
perfectly absurd for your dressmaker to
try and put the high sleeves on you that
are only meant for woman with 'cham.
payne SHOULDERS and then t-y ard make
the champagne bottle look well in dress
that is Gu! to make you look less square?
And yet that is what half of all the dress
makers, men and all alike, try to do. They
bring q woman out q dress. Mrs. So
and-so has taken this Mrs. So-snd-so
is slender and blonde. The other is big
and dark. The dress is a delicate blue
aud very elaborate. Il MAKES no differ
ence, she takes it, and everybody that
sees her in IL goes away and says how
coarse and old she Is getting.
at is the same way with some particu
lar style OF garment. Worth makes 8
tight 4 ting, snort iic6et for some one
whom Il exactly suits. B fore you would
think il possible everybody from Paris to
Chicago is wearing short, tight-f ting
coats, and nine out OF ten are looking
like guys. l remember the last time
went TO Worth be bought out one Of
those tight-6sCing coats TO me, and be-
gan to scold him, telling him how tired
to death l WAS of them, and why, why,
why he didn't. make some with loose
fronts ihIg one could besthe in
You know how peculiar he is, sud how
they say h. WON'T let anyone dictate TO
him 10 any way. He never said word
when l got through, sad thought he wss
miff9d about it-lrd I'm afraid [ didn't
much care if he Was. The next time
went to Try OF some dresses he came
toadling in with three or four loose
fr0nted jackets.
a. is Jaat what you mean, madsme?' 1"
MOI | said, why didn'5 you say you
were going TO make SONS? I've been
thinking ever since you we're sunoyed at
me-
"O1, we'll, madame, it is not always
best TO DE too much obliged for { sugges-
tioE.'
NO FAITH IN BUSTLgs.
Another thing that always snnoys me
is the hay bag question. 1t makes no
difference whether the woman who is to
wear the dress is big or little, or with
long back or short one. When her
dress comes Jme there's the same-slzed
h1y-bag sewn in the back OF her dress
Ca! sometimes when l go by the shop
doors sud see the tLangtry Busues' rat g.
Ting in the wind, or even hanging in the
windows, just long to put my head out
OF the window and tell everybody mot to
believe a word ofit!' The Lsngtry Bus
tie what there IS Of it, is perfectly natural
so far. and hive not any intention of
changing it.
"Oi course, am s tail woman and not
a large woman, and OF course, too,
spend more money on my clothes than 8
crest many women care to or could-With
ne, | have to-ou5 it certainly seems,
Just the same, ss # every woman who has
any time for dress at all ought 10 study
herself snd know herself from top to toe.
l really think ! know every line Of my
body and can tell In miuu;e Just what
l cAa or cannot wear, s1d ! AN sure the
time It has cost me has been cheap
Investment. A woman who does study
herself can dress much more chesply, has
no dress g to wear out that she knows
make her look Ike guy, and has always
the satisfaction Of looking and feeling
perfectly well dressed
More than this, she not only .tudiea
her figure and complexion, bus she studies
her position snd the places where she
wears her different dresses as well. II
she is q society woman, she does not
wear s carriage dress to church, but come
simple cloth gown OF. soft silk. Il she is
an actress, she does not go on the prom
enAde in gown that is an advertisement
of her profession, but rather in the most
conspicuous dress Of s lady. II she is q
business woman, and particularly il she
is forced to 60 into the lower part Of the
city a great deal, her gowns and bonnets
are chosen with the one idea of being al
wsys well dressed and tidy without draw
ing any ones attention to the articles
themselves.
zone Ct The most pUzziipg questions in
she matter of personal style ls Whethel
1t is well or not to have more than one
dress or bonnet m de after single model
For myself, l do not cGre to 90 so.
know Worth has often said to me when
have been particularly pleased with
something he has gotten up for me: WHY
not have smother, say IN white or pink
always ssy MOP for in the first place
one would be mucn more likely to have q
Worth gown copied by some less expen-
sIye process, and In the next place, am
one of those unluckY women WHO are
never quite sure no " they are going tC
lock in an hours time, and il always
ouite upseis me TO feel blue asd unhsppJ
aud know that the gown l have on Is just
III one ougat not 10 wear.
"Then very often Worth Will go on Il
give his ideas about it. Sometimes ht
viii ssy. Il see s lsdy come in here. Sht
looks well, very well. she comes il
again, and she looks very badly. She