Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-14
DO YOU WEAR TIGHTS
Madame lie Vanway Says Man
Is Very Fussy.
And That Every Woman Wears
Tights Who Can.
Mans Weakness in the Way of Select
ing Hat.
Fashions Startling and New-Ihe Sus-
pender-Linen Dresses-The Glover.
Belts and Girdles-Cheap Gowns.
special Correspondence to the HERALD.

Special Correspondence to the HERALD.
SAN Francisco, June Is, 1891.
A well.dressed man walked down
Market street just ahead of me the
other day. When l say well dressed I
mean well dressed, not foppishly at
tired, There wasn't the suspicion of a
gilded youth about this man; not a
suspicion. He was a shrewd, sensible
fellow enough looked like well-to-do
business man; the sort of man who
breakfasts at home with his mother and
sisters, lunches down town at a modest
restaurant, and never, no, never, dimes
at the club; the sort of man who plays
progressive euchre and likes it. Yet he
did little thing that showed most
unlooked-for taste for the pomps and
vanities; only little thing; but what
is the proverb that says something
about straws and-am clear?
Well, the man was walking along
peacefully enough, when a well-known
about town man strolled by. The about
town man is said to be most reprehen-
sible sort of person, but he does dress
exquisitely. AS he passed, the staid
business man that I am trying to tell
you about looked at him. Then he
looked again. He fastened his earnest
ewes upon the hat of the about-town
man. He watched that hat for whole
block. Then he could stand it no longer !;
off came his own hat. He gazed ex-
citedly at the rim. He said something
in smothered voice.
Something far more forcible than po-
lite. This is the sense of what he said: /:
"Some-t -thing-or-other that halter! He
said mine was the latest shape and
style!"
This little episode filled me with an
insatiate desire to find out something
about mems hats. How do they make
their selection, are they always satisfied
and so forth?
/ wanted to know what was the mat
ter with my lymphatic friends derby.
/ found out.
This iswhat Fisher, on Montgomery
street. said: "Are men particular?
Well, think they are."
"Do they return hats very often after
they've bought them?"
4'Of course they do. Now, regarding
this comical street scene that so amused
YOU. The chances are that the gentle
mans hat wasn't fiat enough in the
brim. A shades difference will change
a stylish derby into an old-timey, palmy
days hat, such as certain class of
theatrical men wear. The trouble with
men is this: They are fussy, but they
will not acknowledge it. Now, it is the
easiest thing in the world to press
hat into shape becoming
to the customer, but will the average
man have sense enough to believe me
when 1 tell him this"
Not he.
81 want the latest thing" he says,
"and that settles it."
So all the old Jokes about new bonnets
are two-edged swords, are they?
know MANY an uncomplaining woman
who will rejoice to hear this.
Now let's talk about something pretty.
x*x
"Do you wear tights?" [ receive
dozens of letters asking me about them,
asking me questions which /, in my in
nocence, thought settled long ago, had
almost said aeoEs ago.
''Shall l wear tights ?'
Now once and for all l answer, "Yes, F"
and it's very emphatic yes, too; en-
phatic enough to be set in very big and
startling job type.
Now, they may be any shade or weight
of silk, but tights you must wear.
If you wish to don soft silken petit
coat over them, very well; your modiste
very cob-web OF a petticoat, one that
will not puff when you walk, or you
are lost.
The modern art gown cannot be cor
rectlv worn with petticoats. The union
suite worn first of all, then the tights
and supple vest, then the silken petit
coat, and the under woman is correctly,
daintily and comfortably dressed.
~.
The prettiest girl 1 know SAID to me
Yesterday: "How do | look in my new
gown?"
"You look" sagely replied, "exactly
like the dearest little forget-me-not in
the world" and so she did.
For, besides being a pretty damsel,
she's wise one and she knows how to
dress so as to bring out the sky blue of
her ewes and the spun gold in her hair.
She's little and round and alluring, and
she doesn't try to look tall and stately
and handsome.
The gown in question was comblna-
tion of colors that would have caused a
susceptible soul to swoon with horror a
few years ago. 1t was of real blue and
delicate green-just the exact shades OF
forget-me-not and its leaves and it is
as dainty and sweet as if it had grown
on the banks OF babbling brook, in
stead of being made by that most prac-
tical of beings, a modiste.
**w
There is great deal OF talk in the
fashion papers about something very
startling. Now, this new and startling
something is nothing more nor less than
the old fashioned, dead to the world
suspenders.
They were lectured about and sighed
over and raved over by the dress-re-
formers aeons and aeons ago. They are
ugly, uncomfortable nuisances. And
there isn't any earthly use tor them.
Tennis skirts and all sorts of separate
skirts will sag down. They always have
and they always will. But there's no
sense in having them separate. Have
the thin little supple skirt made on a
waist foundation, slip your tennis blouse
on and there you are No sagging, no
tugging and no foppy skirts. Those
suspenders pull and tug and make you
cross, and then they make an ugly little
stiff line across the back, do what you
will.
What brilliant genius has suddenly
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