St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-24

90 w assert that any
particular style IS de riguer. He will as
quickly dare to proclaim ali eyes black
or all roses red. That blessed era has
not yet arrived. To-day humanity and
sheep are synonymous terms. We rush
>gregariously, helter-skelter, regardless
of consequences, content to follow a
empress adopts the hideous crinoline,
whereby woman's graceful form is
transformed into an undulating barrel.
Straightway one-half of the entire
civilized world proves its right to an an
cestry of monkeys by blindiy converting
Il subterfuge into fashion. A princess
conceaIs the imperfections of long,
thin, scrofulous neck with ribbons or
velvets. Dog collars at once become
necessity to every well-regulated
woman, be she lean or fat, be her neck
long or short. Another parsonage has
ugly feet and wears long dresses to con-
ceal them. For years all womankind
drags long skirts through muddy streets,
no one daring to be sensibly attired
until Woath declares short dresses to be
la mode.
" orth makes the woman:
The want of him the dowdy.
What next? Gloves.
The female mind has gone daft On the
subject of gloves, all on account of
Sarah Bernhard. That very clever
woman is so clever as never to initiate
anybody. Whatever she does has the
great merit of individuality, whether
this individuality be worthy Of praise or
not. In dress, as in deed, she is Sarah
which modistes hang their conceptions.
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she properly affects high rutfs. No dress
of hers, to my recollection, is decollete
in the back. This fact proves reason
because she is an artist and displays
herself to best advantage. as all women
should, and few women do. This eX-
societaire of the Coincide Franchise has
an extremely bad arm from the elbow to
the wrist.
She accepts the inevitable, and calls
art to her assistance. Tight-fitting kid
must be avoided. She adopts the loose
mousquetaire glove of astounding
length, and wrinkles it to the elbow in
order to give bulk. The press an
nOunces as an important item of news
that Mile. Bernhardt has ordered hum
dredS of buttonleSS gloves, one yard
long. ThereupOn fashion is born unto
all women. Society insists that long,
loose gloves shall be de rigueur. The
fat woman gets into them and has the
satisfaction of affording infinite amuse-
meDt to those who are not entirely lost
to sense of humor. Her arms look
like twin bologna SauSageS.
The woman with beautiful arms SpOils
one of the rarest of charms. The
woman with thin, ugly arms alone
covers herself with more OF less glory.
AS matter of fact, no two beings are
fashioned alike; many are fearfully and
wonderfully made, and hands and arms
| are as distinctive. as eyes and
mouths. There are women whose arms
| cannot well bear more than six but
| toned gloves even in ball dress. Why
should they iniure their appearance by
| initiating an actress who would be the
| first to rail at such folly? Have they
| not taste enough to Judge of effect?
Admitting taste. do they not possess
sufficient strength of mind to have the
courage of conviction? The wearing of
| gloves, be they four or six, or twenty
buttoned, is scarcely a subject upon
which to wax eloquent, yet this same
apparently trivial detail involves q
principle, the principle Of individuality.
of independence of thought of propriety
in adornment. There is no such thing
as senseless beauty. There IS always a
reason why beauty is beauty. however
! ignorant the many-headed may be of
the cause of objective pleasure. Opie
| mixed his colorS with brains, and it is
brains that are needed by American
women in dressing, even to the utter
most point of their fingers.