Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-02
HOW TO DRESS WELL
HAVING GOOD cLoTHEsYou SHOULD
KNOW HOW TO WEAR THEM.
Capricss Of Fashion and Fsds In Dress
Entertainments for Easter Week
Brief Society Notes.

| Easter brings with its rotation sense VI
! change and freshness.
The Church puts on It's fresh attire. the
spring dawns with its buds and blossoms,
old things arc lard aside for new, the
bleakness of winter gives place 10 the sun
shine OF the vernal season. tho somore
passes into the gay.
Truly it is tho season which is by every
reason emblemstic of the resurrection!
1t is not difficult to follow the grsda-
tions by which Easter has so naturally
come TO be time Of gayety in the social
/ world as well as rejoicing IN the Church.
! The season of spring Is in itself the season
! OF brightness and change. and that Easter
| tide should nave become sort OF pivot IN
| the world OF fashion Is simply for the rea-
/ son that the festival comes at q turning
/ point IN the seasons aud when Nature sets
! the example of rObing herself in freshest
/ green.
Could von believe in the sincerity OF n
woman who did not at tnis season OF the
year confess to being woefully tired OF all
| her winter gowns! Isn't 1t natural that
| their weight. the traces of mud on their
/ facings and the memory of how you had
| to hold them up and soil your gloves.
! should make you long for fresh begin
ming such as nature is having at this sea-
! SOM That is lf you are a real woman.
/ with all the weakness that Is woman s
/ best strength. with the love Of pretty
| things at which men laugh but for which
they love and admire you the more. For
! if women were the reasoning. reasonable
creatures the lords of creation would
make them. they might as well be men at
! once and have done with 1t.
One noticeable fact NAV "a well bo
pointed here. the men pay as much atten-
tion to the small things of life in the way
of fashion as the gentler sex. in spite of all
their ridicule. The newest cut in frock
coat, the latest shape in the crown of a
| silk hat. the very last tip in the toes of his
| patent-leathers. end the regulation color
OF his gloves, or size of his bouiO1Hiere Is
all thought out with the same care as is
bestowed upon the style, color, and be-
comlngness of his lady loves spring
SUIT" II IL universally conceded that
most people know better what 10 wear
than how 10 wear It. We see some men
who always look spick and span and we'll
| dressed: others, who consult the same
tailor. sit down 80 that the coat rides up
! in the back of the neck. and when the
| wearer rises lt IS full of wrinkles. This
same carelessness or careiulness is visible
in women who are sometimes well dressed
no matter what they put on, and some
| times look dOwdy even ia a French gown.
We may well envy the fortunate few who
are always well dressed who never buy
unbecoming stuffs, and who know how 10
make their clothes look as If they had
| blOssC ned out of their inner conscious
ness as a rose bushes out of It's calyx. All
things being equal, woman should be
dressed from her moral qualities. Some
women. good and true. have sort OF i'm.
morality of taste. They wear too bright
colors, insincere things, paste diamonds
too much hair, poor materials or tiashy
style. Taken as whole such q dresser
gives person of good taste the same sort
of anguish which discord in the orches
ira produces on sensitive ear.
It is the province of woman to put the
world at its ease. although she is accused
of having been. oven before dress was IN
vented. sort of pudding-stick in the
worlds affairs stirring up Adams broth tC
his detrlment. BE that as It may. she Il
appealed 10 in this day and generation t.
make the world ornamental by her gOot
looks, her good clothes, and her good
taste.
No one can be sufficiently grateful TO
that average face and figure which i
always ia fashion. 1t IS so convenient AM
saves so much time A fortunate wOmal
Is she who can wear pale blue and layen
der turquoise and violet; can wear he
hair nigh without looking like a May-pol
or low aud IN n GrecIen knct wlthOu
looking as If she had lost ali claim to
neck, and who can dress as she please
and know by intuition what to wear Gn'
above all, how 90 wear IT,
certain order of beautiful women in,
it hard 10 dress inconsplcuously. Beaut'
and high color ara liable to all sorts OF i'm
putatIOns. Nothing Is more liable TO b
attacked than complexion III q beautiful
woman. Bret Harte, III one Of his lmita
ton Chinese proverbs, says: When II
your nelghoor's watermelon patch do no
stOOp even 80 much as 10 tie your shoe
Avoid the appearance of evil" SO mus
beauty avoid toO-becOmIug attire
She ls in her neghbOr's melon patch ant
she must avoid the appearance OF evil
Then, women cannot all be beautiful. Tn
fiat has gone forth that some of Us shall b
plain, but IN addition to that beaut'
which comes from culture OF mind aut
heart plan women may be always i'm
proved by knowing what 10 wear and hoy
TO wear IL. They are often the mos
pleasing Given q plain woman wit
taste in dress and tact. and beauty wit
neither, and who would not cOunt ol
the plan woman She knows the plan
one with tact and taste-even which VII
tues are becoming. She adopts cheerful
ness and modesty, and there comes IN tina
adornment of the meek and quie
spirit which does such execution wit
the opposite sex. and in tasteful dressin
we might almost imagine her 10 be in
spred she makes herself so pleasing as {
be almost beautiful. She adds TO tact
knowledge OF how TO wear ber clothes.
The anecdote Of the great man MILNE
and the American widow is known 70 some
He agreed to dress the widow wlthou
seeing her if a friend would describe her
Being told that she was grave, religion:
high prlncipled, yet very fond OF the goo
things of this world; very rich. truly al
tached 10 the dear deceased. yet not sol
rowing as one without hope. he said
"Ah, yes, see: she wishes 10 mourn hi1
sincerely. but with great magnifcence
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