The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-06-30
mo. 80.


trust, will remember q few things:
that anything which destroys the
symmetry Of q woman's figure is
inartistic; the beautiful outline OF
bust the graceful slope of the
shoulders, the undulating hips,
must all be accentuated, not lost or
by overruffling and un-
graceful lunches of drapery.-
Dresses that button across the
heart diagonally, sleeves with huge
knots on the shoulders, trimmings
chopped up into crazy patch. are
misdemeanors no less fragrant than
a missing button, q soiled ruf1e or
imitation jewel. A girl who jingles.
who futters ribbons and laces, who
apparently distills from her person
odors of Lubin's extracts, who for
gets to powder behind her ears, is
like an imitation daisy made of inn
itation tissue paper and stuck on q
wire stem. She is caricature and
her cheap tinssls and gaudy affec-
tation of style are second rate and
unworthy. Ayoung lady takes in
finite pride in her little parlor, her
sitting-room, or the decoration and
embellishments of her home. If
her taste is good, she abhors those
denominations made of paper flow
ers, raveled cotton and cut papers,
and is chary in the use of tides or
chrochet work. Her personal APP
pearance should be equally impor-
tant and the subject of care and
thought
The dress may be of cotton, the
shoes coarse, the gloves two-but-
toned, the hat home made, but If all
are neat of becoming color and
suitable to her means and the time
and place, the girl is a daisy, wee,
modest and crimson tipped" and
will be q pretty and cheering sight
wherever she goes.
People who are really refined and
addicted to fashionable clothing in
the highest sense, would not waste
q thought on poor, tawdry, cheap
little Camelia Chrome with her
pinchback jewellery and her ruff
fes of lace that are 90 manifestly
not the real thing; but if Camelis
should once appear in dress that
was . model Of drapery, we'll TT
ting and in harmony with all her
|other belongings, she would exotic
that admiration for which her little
soul hungers and for which it il
starving,
A Chrome girl does many things
that would ill-become 2 princess.
She pins her rufles, and fails to
supply missing button on her
dress, or thinks q tiny rent "too
small to be seen" and covers de-
| ficiences with ribbon bows. She
appears finally like q bit of stage
scenery, all very well at distance
but monsMously unlovely upon
close inspection.
A certain Camelia Chrome OF my
acquaintance went one afternoon in
England to drink tea with the
daughters of q duchess. It was q
pleasant June day and Camelia had
been invited to drop in in time for
that afternoon cup of tea that is
usual in English homes. She had
plenty of money, go what does she
do but order z new satin dress for
this simple call. She wore gay
bonnet, a satin gown that jingled
delightfully."-, a wonderful passemen-
terie wrap, and radiant and hand
some was attired in manner that
would have been appropriate for q
swell lunch or regular reception.
She made her visit, and out on the
lawn under some shady trees, with
q tiny brass teakettle and tray
beside them, she found the scions
of nobility wearing pink cotton
gowns with sashes the same. Ca
melia told me Of it afterwards and
said frankly: For the first time
in my life / realized the meaning
of q refined taste and dress. / sat
there ovsrpowsringly grand, in my
unsuitable satin and my gorgeous
ness, and / felt that opposite me
were the real girls of which l
looked TO be the fashy imitator."
Money does not enter largely in
to the real question OF dress. To
be well dressed only implies that
ones costume is fitting to the in