Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-18
THE PlTrsBURG WOMEN.
A Feminine Writer Has Something to b
About Our Dear Girls.

A Feminine Writer Has Something to Say
About Our Dear Girls.
"Meg" the bright woman of the Philadel-
phia Times, sends a column to that journal
on 'The Pittsburg Women" Here's some
of her paragraphs:
just imagine living In place where as
often as you put your hand down white you
took 1t up black, where as often as you went
to pay visit you came In with a disflguring
smirch of SCOT across your face, and all the
while you had been saying "prunes, poetry
prisms'' in blissful Inconsistencies Of hav-
ing the city's trade mark on your brow;
and where you would have to forego all
dainty clothing so distinctly woman's
own, wear material like your husbands or
brothers, and as often as the season for new
clothes came round, buy suit SO nearly
like the old that you had to depend upon
the trimming and cut for the proper recog-
milton of its newness. II you think you
could not bear these crosses complacently
or at least uncomplatningly, don't move to
Pittsburg.
wonder why Pittsburg women do not
brighten up their somber costumes with
natural dowers2 Though artificial flowers
do get faded and old so much too soon in
this smoky, sooty atmosphere, the natural
where. Since stop to think about It,
don't believe was ever any place where
flowers were SO generally worn both by men
and women as in Philadelphia, and a prettier
fashion than this I am sure no city could
have
In Pittsburg flowers are not commonly
sold upon every crossing, as they are in
Philadelphia. which Of course accounts for
their not being worn, since Pittsburgers
would never have time to go to florists.
Here It Is hurry and go. all business-like
activity, with women as well as with men,
BILE. There is throb of activity in the air
that is infectious. I catch the excitement
and chase myself around until regularly
come home breathless and fit candidate
for an inflrmary.
I have lived good deal in this city, and
naturally am a frequenter of the shops.
have noticed the same line of goods here
that is carried in Philadelphia-and go
where you will these stores are as full Of
eager buyers as our own. The goods are
sold, but after that they drop out of sight.
pittsburg women do not wear their best
clothes on the street. Snowy clothes they
and therefore the city has to depend upon
shop windows for Frightening effect. Just
now these windows are particularly gay.
Those showing headwear look so familiar
that frequently forget am not on Chest
nut street.
Suspender gowns seem to have only just
reached Pittsburg. These gowns are not
womanly and they would have to have that
quality first of all to be adopted by women
of this city. I certainly think there is as
little nonsense displayed in the gowning of
q Pittsburg woman as in that of any other
known to me. Not but that they spend as
much or more money upon their clothes as
do women of Eastern cities-for the money
is here and so far as the men are concerned
the women are welcome to any amount of
it-and they do spend 1t in buying the very
best material that will make up into sub
stantial looking gowns. But novelties are
not ready sale for street wear and all light
cOlors are kept for the house and for these,
of course, there is more or less novelty cul-
tivated, which IS their only respite from
gloomy colOrS.
There is something wrong in the cut OF
dresses out here and am not artist enough
to tell just what tits. Clothes do not seem
to have the style OF air they should have,
and am sure it is not the fault of the wear
ers, for Pittsburg's women, as a rule, are
we'll formed and we'll enough cared for by
say and this, wherever found insures
good carriage and bounding step which we
know more than any other endowments set
of good clothes.
Really there should be some Eastern dress
makers imported here. The merchants are
most fashionable goods obtainable the
women who are to wear these things are
lacking in none of the essentials that 20 to
make up womanly woman, refined
woman or stylish woman, but just as
tailor can make or unmake man SO the |
far as appearances go-and who is there that |
will say Just how far appearances do 20?