The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-22
THE FINISHING TOUCHES
OF WoMAN's DRESS

Ahe woman VINO is termed Well-gOWneC
that the difference in aspect of tn,
women she meets on the street lies no
so much in what they wear but in how
they wear it; she appreciates the fac
that there are more women who know
how to buy choose an effective article
at a counter than there are who know
how to attire themselves with it il
their boudoirs, says the Chicago Trib
une.
When she dresses she profits by the
sad tale of beauty who always as
sumed her gorgeous frock connections
in a POLITICALLY dim, religious" light
which was too artistic to make patent
the minutiae of her toilet, and who
then marveled how the simple toilet OF
plain friend always outshone them
She acts upon her knowledge that the
effect of her smart apparel is slaugh-
tered if she does not put herslef to some
pains in donning it.
Every article of raiment whether it
be gloves, hat, veil, shirt waist. belt.
hose, petticoat. footwear. or any of the
dainty invisibes beneath has its own
prerequisite for attaining the distinc
gushing aspect, and the well-gowned
woman heeds the least of these.
She has no dread Of countless pins
and hairpins, she studies out the eff
feet of various angles to the minutest
fraction of hairsbreadth. she loves to
fit things carefully. she dotes upon eff
feCts, never for an instant forgetting
the tout ensemble while detailing the
needs of one particular part. She
dresses in q light that will lay pitiless-
~ bare all the f1ecks and faults which
she wishes were not there, and before
mirror that win make it possible for
her to see them wherever they may be,
at the tip of her toe or in the strange
recesses of the small of her back, at
the waist line, or at her elbow.
WISE DEFIANCE OF FASHION.
Lastly. and this in these days should
go. and go everywhere, without say
ing, she takes it fully for granted that
she has a face and figure of her own,
and because she has seen a rosy face,
with jaunty sort of upturn nose,
framed with magnificent sauciness by
a lifting. picturesque chapeau. she does
not forthwith turn the headwear above
her own brave Roman nose into girl
ish little angles. And when she hears
that hats off the face are the vogue
she retains hers. in charming defiance
Of the law dipping far over her brow,
if such is the position her beauty type
finds more congenial, at the same in
slant so maneuvering with its trim
mings as to cast the illusion over every
beholder that her hat is really perched
modishly to the back. This valuable
perception of her own individual char
acteristics, need it be said, does not go
without saying. Indeed, with muah
saying. in many fashion journals and
endless side talks with maidens, it
seems to go but short distance-no
farther than the house of the woman
who is well gowned.
But if every woman who coVets her
effect would take the matter of dress
ing in the same serious, cOmprehen-
sive. intelligent manner she would soon
be walking in the footsteps of the we'll
EoWned woman.
The important element in putting on
a glove is to get it smooth. not to draw
1t on overhastily. even il you are fash |
ionably sensible and do not wear them |
in the least tight. Take the parts each |
by each and fit them down, first the |
fingers, then the hand, fitting each to |
its tip, so that no unused glove space |
remains which does not come into con-
tact with your fingers-a most vital |
feature-and afterward taking the |
palm of the hand and the thumb. Make |
every part smooth, and then when you !
are done, if your glove is of the proper |
size. YOU will have not only a trinity |
DuL n NpiltlbA ldblg ssiONNO AAeAAA''
entire effect is annihilated if there is
the suspicion of rip, or, far worse,
such an abomination as hole any
where about the glove fingers. tx
tremities-the hat, head, the hands and
the feet-are the four cardinal points
in the well-gowned woman's compass.
and of these the gloves are those which
above all others demand faultless
neatness. They must fit, they must
button and they must be whole.
THE DOMINIC OF A HAT.
tAIost women are most delightfully."-
scrupulous with the DOMINIC of the hat
which has just arrived from the MILL
ner. They pull at their hair to make ii
assume the becoming outlines, they turn
the hat back and forward. to this side
and that hoping with each experiment
to find a new and better way of dis
playing its becomingness, and fairly CO
quette with the mirror in sundry pleas
urable endeavOrS to induce it to reflect
the most attractive picture possible.
But generally they grow weary in we'll
doing as the hat loses its first beautiful
and just when it most needs
the aid of an intelligent eye and hand
to place ii i'm the best position they be-
gin to toss it on haphazard. They think
II isn't worth while. 1t won't be any
ilillE 10 MAKE DtDRlt luA II AAAtAA AANciNAS,
anyway.
But the rare woman. who always
looks well. is glad to take trouble with
her hat whenever she has one where
with TO crown her feminine glory of
-resses. She arranges it; she toys with
Ter hair until they take on the becom-
ng angles: she tufts out a bow here
md plume there, and takes her hand
glass to see that the roses beneath the
Drim rest prettily round her coil at the
pack The newness or Oldness of the !
lat has nothing to do with the matter; {
she has her head to dress into some
hing attractive for the spectator, and ,
he hat is the chief instrument with $
which to do so. so she viii not leave her !
Ooking glass until an effective result
s achieved. Becomingness is nearly $
he whole raison d'etre for any ones {
wearing a hat, and in putting it on {
should be the all-absorbing end of a
being. :
VEIL AS A BEAUTY HELP. :
An interesting feature of the head 7
wear for many a woman is the veil, f
Which is cherished by many beholder I
f feminine beauty as the mysterious (
which adorns the face be 6
eath with unguessed charms or casts +
yer it a soft illusion of beauty Wen G
Ot suggest the fact that by the occu- I
lists 1t is regarded as an invaluable aid G
n augmenting the size of their bank
CcOuntS.
When lovely woman goes to put on
his beauty help she should have the
rst of these estimates on its value !;
in her mind. and should :
irect her efforts so that those who en- i
ertain it should not meet with a shock :
then they see her. Wells when not put :
n prettily, daintily, neatly, tidily, are
nsightly as few others objects in the :