Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
MRS, LANGTRY ON DRESS.

10 stay-I,ike Attracts Like In Dress as
In Love, so Blondes May Bask i~ Sun
CoIors.
For my own part, writes Lillian Langtry,
the only underclothing 1 wear is OF PINK
batiste, a much lighter material than nan
mel. 1t is very foolish for women who pass
the greater part of their time In houses,
theaters, churches, stores and cars heated to
summer heat to go swathed like mummles In
red or white flannel OF what benefit when
they have occasion to 60 out in the cold Is
this heavy underclothing, to which they
have accustomed themselves in their warm
homes? l keep myself warm when out OF
doors in cold weather by wearing heavy
outer wraps, and 1 change from heavy to
lighter ones or vice versa as the temperature
changes.
Next to underclothing comes stays. They
should be as simple as possible. Most peo-
pie cling more or less closely to the fashions
and customs of their youth, and the stays
wear now are precisely the same in every
respect as the first pair 1 ever donned-aH
in one piece and laced up the back, with
stocking supporters at the side. 1t is but
natural, since L have never worn any other,
that should think this style the best 1t
be worn tight
NOT A BUsTLE PARTISAN.
Thank heaven, the hustle has departed.
hoped it mad gone forever, but L believe
there is now being made to revive it, an
effort which 1 trust will prove futile.
never wore one in all my life, aud never in
tend to do so. The hustle is Objectionable
upon every ground. 1t is injurious to
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heat which it imposes upon the hips, and it
is an ugly excrescence. There are several
much more graceful, healthtul and COM
Portable ways In which the 'bustle effect"
may be secured, when nature has not sup
piled it sufficiently, than by means of the
hay bag, the swinging case, the rubber
cushion, or even the daily newspaper, which
comprise the pustle methods most generally
employed.
One way is to wear stiffly starched white
skirts founced up the back. Another way
and a better, because it avoids the noise of
a starched skirt, which to me is ofensive-is
to insert two or three reeds to make the gown
stand out and keep it from resting on the
heels.
SKIRTS FROM THE WAIST.
We hear a great deal about the evil of
women carving all the weight of their skirts
from the waist by having them tightly
fastened around it. No doubt many women
have suffered severely from this practice,
which is not only wholly unnecessary, even
with the present style OF dress, but is posi-
lively disfguring, as the thickness OF the
skirts about the waist tends to increase its
size, and thus to produce the very effect
Ghch SO many women try TO avoid by tight
lacng. NY skirts do not come up to my
waist at all. They button on to the lower
h,ir, 4lrorr aIrlf
upon nv shoulders.
am glad to see that of late years there |
has been a marked revolution in the popu- |
lar ideas with regard to the proper combi- |
nations of colors and as to what colors and |
shades are and are not becoming to persons |
of various compilations. Thus, for years it
was thought that yellow of any shade was
peculiarly the color for brunettes and that
blondes should never wear it. This has now
been shown to he great mistake.
A woman of the deadest white skin, with
light blue eyes and pale blonde hair, be-
comes poem when she dons yellow gown.
A yellow frock and yellow tan have been
known to transform a rather plain blonde
into vision of almost perfect loveliness.
How could it fail to be so?
LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE.
All the tints of blonde beauty are fair and
sunny. Why, then, should it not follow
that they are set off to the best advantage
and brought into most admirable prominence
bv similar tintS? To my mind like has as
much attraction for like in the law of beauty
as in that of love, tor / am not one of those
who believe in the doctrine that people are
attracted by their opposites. But it must
not be supposed that precisely the same
shade of yellow will suit every blonde. 1t
used to be thought that light blue was the
color par excellence for blondes. Now it is
the brunette, with her own rich warmth of
color, who may becomingly wear even that
shade of blue so long considered sacred to
babies.
Rose and scarlet may be worn alike by
blondes and brunettes, but the lighter
shades of the former should be selected by
the blonde and its deeper tints by the |
brunettes. Scarlet is more becoming to the |
blonde, because she has greater need of its |
power to impart its own tinge to her lips and |
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