The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1888-10-20
HIGH ART IN DRESS.

A Ladies' Tailor piscourses on the NIy.
sterics OF the Wardrobe.
''lt is good deal more trouble to fit
lady than You would imagine" said fash
ionahle LADIES' tailor. as he sat in his elegantly
furnished office and motoncd servant to
bring Il chair for his visitor "becauSe You
sec. ladies are very peculiar. have been III
this business for years and have had dealings
with every kind of lady in this country and
i'll Europe How are ladies measured. WE'LL
first they take Off their outer waist, leaving
their necks and arms bare. Then tho filter
measures them from tho collar to tho waist
i'll the back; the width of the back is taken
Mt its widest and narrowcst parts. the front
from the base of tine throat to the waist.
next from under arm to the waist. and then
the size of the throat is taken. After that
we take the measurement of the bust, waist
and hips. That done the inside length of
the sleeve is taken, and the circumference of
the bicel's. The measure of the skirt is next
taken, UP, down and around. Then we have
three fit inss. FIRST in the rough, second
with more perfect lin,ngs nn'l lastly Wien
everything Is completed"
How do YOU make up II poor tiglree'
That's an art For instance. n lady will
come who Is as thin rs Il rail, with 10 bust
no arms, no shoulders. We have to ,lsc cot
ton wa'lding TO supply her Deficiencies
That's where a good filter comes ill., \
bln-lcr would make her look lumpv. hut an
artist i'll his line turns her out Il model. Then
suppose IL big, tieshy lady comes along. She
has an immense eXpansc of breast OF corrs.
that must he broken. We usually break the
bodice lnt" four lines by rcvcr of the sanlo
cloth. Your "ye can onl v travel from one
line to the other, and before it has passed
around all of them the mind forgets to no.
tlce The cIpansc. A perfectly plain bodice
Is very trying except to perfect figure. In
that event, of course it only sets it off IL
is not often | advise plain fronts so few can
stand them
How DO American ladies compare with
English and French in tlsir tisuresf'
n wou!'l say they stood in between. Tho
French woman is the perfection of style Her
carriage is inimitable; whatever she wears
seems individual and perfect. can tell n
/ French woman two blocks behind by her
! walk. Their forms nre 1t so rouulcd as the
English, and their shoulders are usually
seuarer. The Americans, on tho other hand,
are more slender and delicate than tho Eng
li>h, while they have some of that ndescrb-
able chic of the French. In England, you
know, the ladies lead an active out of door
life, which makes them robust and gives them
good busts and rounded arms. Here there is
not much attempt ut exercise, except in
iiiectation."
How do New York la,lic. compare in their
figure with western and southern grs!''
II don't think there is any dispute about
the fact that New York ladies are the most
stylish on the continent. Many of our society
ladies would be mistaken for French women
Tho southern lady is usually thinner than
tho New Yorker, and more languid in all
her motions. The western girl is heavier,
the outlines are more accentl,atctl, and she is
not SO stylish Some Of the western girls
would be models Of beauty if they were not
n little too feshr 1t is not the hard, firm
flesh that comes from exercise, but the loose
flesh of eating trtlo more than tho amount
of exercise taken would warrant MANY
New Workers arc more graceful than the
Par!sienn"s. If American girls could only
he induced to take u little moro active excr-
else out Of doors, they would be the models
of tho modern human form-New York
World