The Washington times., 1894-04-12
The EVER-PRESENT
Task OF DRESSING

This year, writes, Mrs. Mallon, the new
frock has touch OF green about it. This
isn't meant to explain the girl. oh. dear, no.
1t only means that she is young and tender,
and altogether charming. A woman with
new frock can accomplish much. 1t makes
her believe in herself. 1t causes her to be
amiable to all mankind, and makes her so
loving that she will yield an inch with the
certainty of getting a yard. The new frock
tends toward diplomacy. The wearer OF 1t
disarms her enemies by her amiability, and
makes her friends love her more than ever.
She finds It difficult to be disagreeable when
she is enshrined in the newest stuff, the most
becoming color and cut that is supreme in
its perfection. 1t is queer how much a cut
means.
If there is any one thing woman ought to
know it is how to dress herself, and yet
somebody who is very little over five feet,
with waist that would require to be Rugged
in sections, and general development under
her chin that hints at a dairy, will elect TO
wear a black brocade with huge bouquets OF
pink roses upon it. and nobody has the cour-
age 20 tell her what mistake she has made.
II anybody did say anything she would cryi
that kind Of woman always cries and SAYS
that the material was handsome and she
couldn't help being fat. Well. she can help
looking fat. She has a funny fashion OF
wearing Jet belt. Now any kind OF a belt
will make her lock larger, but she ought to
abhor Jet as she does poison, for anything
that sparkles makes its background appear
twice as big.
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fat lobe to her ear, she sticks in diamond
solitaire, and she ought to know that she
should never wear any stone that glitters.
Pearls or turquoise belong TO the stout
woman; all the stones that sparkle to the
slender ones By the by, speaking OF ear
rings aren't you glad to see that the women
who count themselves the elect no longer
wear them? They have at last discovered
that pretty ear doesn't need jewel TO
attract attention. and that certainly one
shouldn't be put in an ugly ear to draw the
ewes of the lookers-on to its defects. The
only earrings ever heard of that l thought
must be beautiful were those worn by
Salammbo: and if YOU remember. they were
followed pearls filed with exquisite per-
fume, and so swung on spirals OF gold that
they swayed to and fro and dropped the
scent on her beautiful bare shoulders. Evil
dently in those days the art of dressing was
thoroughly understood
By-the-by l am going to say something
that maybe you won't like. 1t is this-that
for Spring and Summer, in the mornings, in
the mountains, or when travelling there is no
girl who looks so perfectly well dressed as
she who is tailor made. It is perfect nom
sense to say she looks like aman. She don't.
The American woman couldn't look that way
if she wanted to. She is built in the most
feminine fashion, and. consequently, coats
and shirts only intensity this. and while they
give her kind of rollicking look. they in
crease rather than take away from her
femininity.
The other day was talking with a fashion
able shirt maker in New York and asked
him why ne charged dollar apiece more for
womans shirt than he did for mans.
With many bushes he said "A man is just
straight up and down, you know, and lady,
well. lady-you know-a lady has curves,
and "a man s shirt wouldn't button on her" l
thought that knocked over the whole theory
of masculine belongings, taking away from
the sweet womanliness of women. Probably
the most feminine women in the world are
the English ones. and they are the ones who
first saw the desirabilitv of the comfortable
cloth skirt just escaping the ground, the clean
skirt. the pretty belt and the easy fitting cut
away Jacket.