Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-14
SLAVES TO LATEST FADS.
II Is Variety, Not Uniformity, That
Gives Pleasure.
sRcRHrs OF THE WELL DRESSED
How one woman Gets stylish
clothes on Small
Outlay.

one hears as much about II as IL the
thing were common; but II isn't COM
mon. It isn't even general; before II be-
comes so all women must have learned
tho difference between Htyle and fash
ion. they don't know II now"
Tho remark sounds cynical, perhaps,
but n we pause to consider how many
times In the week or month women
who discuss clothes are heard speaking
Of style and fashion as If they were
Identical terms the remark becomes
rt,tlcal rather than cynical. Tho really
wolf dressed woman Is she who has
vol connod the fact that style Is IN
dIviduul while fashion nt best Is only
Initiative style. style gives distinction.
fashion, adopted without thought,
makes one pass for more or less fair
COPY of somebody else. IL Is variety,
moi uniformity that gives pleasure the
brillIance even of regimontals weary IL
soon too often, and few things can
become more trcsome to the eye than
a household or intimate circle OF people
repcnting one another In the make or
color Of clothing, rms generally re-
suits from unthlnking Impulse Tho
average girl or woman can afford per-
hans only one, or at most two new
gowns a season, and knowing this, her
dtgt thought II apt TO be whit is the
most fashionable color or shade this
scason-for az everyone knows each
season brings into vogue some prevail
ing color. tone or texture. Then, tcO,
The girl who can have her things early
and is uopular, IL likely to have many
ncgunlutanccs waiting to see how her
clothes are made In order that they
may copy them TO the best OF their
ability with this desire to copy and
the other desire to have the very latest
thing In color Is II any wonder that
there is sometimes n very surfeit OF the
latest fashion before the end Of the
season Yet all such results could be
avoided by cultvating an indepcnd-
encc IN personal taste, a study Of ores
own characteristics and an adaptation
Of the prevailing vogue to ones own
How can this be done and keep with
In the limits OF ones purse, together
with am up-to-datc nppenriuco2 It
ie really easy if one Knows how, and
the art rs not an occult one. II may
never exist 10 perfection. except in
the fcw I'm whom II Is Unborn and iu-
etInctiyo but the many may surely ae-
quirc It TO useful and timely degree,
Tor like all arts. It grows with cNcr-
else and patience, and by keeping one 8
eyes and ears open for hints and sug.
ggsuous from every quarter. II all
women could afford to employ creative
artists there would be no need Of pnins-
taking ON their own part, for 1t IL the
inventive artists who rarely make mis-
takes IN adapting means 10 chds' IueS
have hisoernment sense or htness, as
" Inspiration a well-known society
woman, leader among her set, re-
marked not LONG ago; 1t was not such
an enormous expense, after all TO have
Worth make ones gowns, Tor in maxi
Ing them he seems 60 study ones soul
and character, as well as ones person,
and the things he makes never seem
10 Get 0ld-tuahioned. \ Worth crea-
tlou lis practically perennial. How long
do you think have had this gown
stand in2'
II was beautiful dinner gown, soft
silk OF rich texture; $50 perfect nnd
with It's wearer, and 40 tremendously
drapcd TO the lines " her figure that
only an expert might survey 1t with
hope Of knowing how IL was done.
Her hearers kAvc up guessing; Il might
have boon made this year. 1t might
have boon last year. or even two years
ago.
u have worn II at intervals of mud
on for eight years." explained It's
owner YOU see q work Of art, even
In gown. cannot easily grow old
fashioned"
And SHE was right. And the more
ono learns OF the secret OF Wcll-drcgRed
women the more one discovers that
they are never slaves TO the latest rad
In rustuminE. and very often the least
/ eNtluNgEant IN outlay
Another woman. who always dressed
with sraCc and distinction. vet whose
1 Income every one had reason to believe
was limited, became for a time nm OBJ