The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-10-28
FASHION LETTER.
TIE ARISTOCRATIC FIGUREAND
HOW IT'S CLOTHED
THIS AUTUMN.

When nature tries 10 MAKE one The re-.
suit is generally an Albert Durer type
of figure. The fashionable fat back
stops being fat at the waist line, where
the naturally flat back becomes stub.
borny persistent, and there curves
adorab'y. The fashionable flat back is
pquant. 1t is triHe exaggerated-al
smart fashions are-but it adds some
thing indefinable to the figure and car
rage. Carriage is 70 vastly important
in style. The woman who does not
carry herself after the fashion that this
season, 10 more ways than one, is good
form" cannot acquire the fetching Giant
OF the military back. Without it the
frocks of the day are powerless to make
their wearer quite fit.
The aristocratic type OF figure now in
vogue Is not produced by much practice
in the gymoasium. 1t did not TAX,
women long to note that thu consolation
prizes for lack of beauty belong t, wo.
men who PISS much OF their time ma.
nnuvring with rings and poles and rope
ladders ct al. Such women ecomo
agile; they arc almost naver graceful;
they never have beautiful figures. The
fashionable back that Sd completely
eliminates the awful corset Inc with
which the lobster backed women send
makers Of distingue gowns to an un.
timely grave is acquired by tho svelt
figure simply through learning to stard
and sit and walk we'll. When advanc-
ing years and Incidence have deposited
their burden Of fiesh 80 hopeless,y at
variance with elegance, this must be at
initiated. Apropos Of which, it is
worth noting that the physicians in ex-
traordinary to the Court end OF the
town have, as one man, added TO their
favori'e prescriptions for matrons the
latest antidote for embonpoint-Vichy
and Kissirgen on alternate days.
The fashionable walk is akin to the
glide beloved Of the novelists when tho
century was young. 1t is not learned
where caddies congregate. The trailing,
clinging, mermaid, silhouette robes OF
the reigning mode ere absurdly out Of
harmony with any other than leisurely
serpentine movement; Jane Hading
method Of moving. had almost writ
ten a Mrs. James Brown Potter manner;
but Mrs. Potter has never reached the
perfection OF art that enables her TO
hide that she is "nummering,' whether
on or off the stage. 1t is an art that is
not common in good society. In Ameri-
can society, so far as the North is con
cerned. it is practically unknown. In
the South? Well, yes, here and there.
Baltimore? Hardly. In New Orleans,
more likely. Empress Josephine, l i'm
agine. had it to perfection.
Out OF the fog Of uncertainty that en-.
compassss the new fashions of any sea-
son for the first few weeks some conclu-
sions have begun to emerge. They are
not gratifying to those silly birds OF
passage who annually comfort the
popularity known establishment in Paris,
London. and Vienna by buying all their
Iurbished.up leitovers and uninspired
coacoctions OF the dead season. The
high priests and prestesses Of the most
exclusively patronized temples Of fashion
are not infallible They do not even
claim to be oracles for longer than the
immediate present. They refuse to
prophesy in August what will he the
best style in October. The keynote OF
fashion today is originality. Popularity
Is the death knel OF a style. SO far as tho
well dressed woman ia concerned. She