The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-06-20
I COURTROOM COSTUMES.
Fine Clothes Employed to influence tho

Fine Clothes Employed to influence tho
Judge and Jury.
Although. a woman's gowns frequent
II deserve and receive honorable mem
ton, like "a brand of baking powder at
times in her ife-it may be four if she
is American-when they are entered
for the blue ribbon, says writer in the
New York Recorder. These are Inn
portant occasions, and these gowns are
the result of anxious thought and la
borous research in the fields of gown
literature. First, the dress she wears
as debutante; secondly, the wedding
gown. The third gown is worn by the
young mother when she receives the
relatives and friends who have come to
offer their congratulations to her and
their gifts to her firstborn child. De-
butante. bride and mother! a woman
may be all these, and in America she
frequently q is something more-a di-
vorcee. Here frocks are not uni1npor-
tant factors and am irresistibly re-
minded Of trunlkful of dresses I saw
last week which are to play prominent
part in a big divorce case soon.
What heap of pretty frocks, !
said.
YES" my friend replied. Horribly
expensive, and / couldn't well afford
them, either, but business is business,
you know, these are my stock in trade.
They re very sympathetic gowns, must
say. The designer caught my eye per-
fectly."
''Sympathetic gowns! Stock in trade!
What do you mean?" gasped.
4 What do mean? Why, stupid, these
are to wear at the trial.
"Oh, dear me! All those!'
Eyes, all those. Now, here's this
black one," said she, talking like Rosina
Vo]xes in one of her soliloquies. II
shall wear this the first day. 1t makes
me look pale, and has crapy, mourn
full air about it that will make a favor
able first impression on the court. l
wish them to understand that the de-
PENDANT has wrecked my young life.
See?
'Well, this red gown! Doesn't this
bristle ali over with determination?
Isn't win or die futtering from every
fold? I shall wear this the day we
make the biggest fight. 1t looks SO ag~
yressive.
''Now here's this white cloth. Very
simple. you observe. Silver girdIe.
Broad hat with feathers. Fluffy boa.
Sweet simplicity. Girlish loneliness.
That's for the day my counsel sums up.
'tThat gray-sad, dove-colored, Quak-
erish looking, l shall wear that--with
tears--in case we seem TO be getting
beaten.
''rl,is is a brown cloth to wear upon
all the common, ordinary occasions. It
is made in a sensible way, with this
business-like Jacket. There is a set OF
silver tablets goes with it, also a vinai~
grette. The tablets for any random
ideas might have which should be in
stantly jotted down, the vinaigrette in
case should faint. It may be necessary
to faint, You know. Some judges are so
obdurate.
''This note book fancy will make
great hit with the jury. Yes, it did
cost a pretty penny, but hope the re-
suits will more than compensate for the
outlay.
'sYou see, one of Ted's strong points
Of defense is that was SO extravaganza
he couldn't stand it. The idea. Well,
now any jury Of average intelligence
seeing me with this little book Will
say: Dear ME! She couldn't be SO aw-
fully extravagant. Such naethodical
business-like habits don't go with ex-
fragrance No, indeed!
THAT'S what the Jury will say, and
shall come out with flying colors and
victory perched upon nay banners. And
why? Well, OF course, the fact that my
side is right and Ied's is wrong has
something to do with it, but chiefly,
my dear, chiefly because of my gowns.
THE jury won't know it: the judge
won't know it. When did (; man know
anything about a woman OR her strate>
gies? And, between you and me, the
less they know the better. What they
don't know won't hurt Them and it is
really, selfish of a woman to worry a
man with trivial matters when he has
such grave and important cases on his
mind.
Going? Veil. wish me luck with
my gowns. This is my way OF casting
breed upon the waters"
a Cows wild F,etreaf