The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-22
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Specially Prepared for Our Feminine Readers.

! ing confidence in their own capacity
for achieving the graceful effect and
making quite certain before using the
veil that they have fastened il secure
| ly. Indeed. most wells can make good
use of pins as a preventive against the
onslaughts of the winds and personal
movements. BY the minutest fractions
of angles, by the smallest, daintiest ar
engagements of the film over her face,
by the trifies that would only be obtru-
sive by their absence. is known the
woman who understands how To put on
her veil.
With so many shirtwaists going on
every day in the calendar it might be
almost astonishing that so many go on
as they should not. could one forget
with what homogeneous carelessnes<
most women attire themselves. Some
of the neatest women do not see the
vital points for creating the object of
their efforts. In adjusting shirt
waist a few pins, some of them safety
pins preferably, viii put an end to the
denominations one sees. To be right
shirtwaist must always have a smooth
back, and the only way to be certain
about this point is to fasten it to the
back of the belt of the shirt, if neces-
sary quite through the corset, with two
small safety pins. Then come what
may the waist will not go astray. 1t
will not bulge or puff or founder nerv-
ously in a. diversity of untoward direc-
tons. That is the way all women want
their ShirtwaiStS to be, and they will
carry on a periodical tug of war every
now and then during the day beneath
their skirt to persuade the erring
shirt" as their English sisters would
say, to return TO the path of rectitude.
If they called the couple Of safety pins
into service this matter would be
peacefully settled forever. Some of the
shirts have extra bands put at the |
back for the purpose of terrifying the !
waist against tears from these pins; |
when they have not them it is simple |
matter to put them in ones self.
In front the skirt belt must be drawn |
down in a peak or V and fastened |
there with a stout pin. This pin secures |
the skirt and waist in front just as the !
safety pins secure it in the back. and |
1t is absolutely a necessity ror insuring |
a perfect set of the shirt" without per-
sistent attention. It would appear that |
women would solve these problems of
their shirtwaists of their own accord,
but few there are, indeed, who seem to
perceive what is necessary; few there
are who see what the well-gowned
woman sees-that if she puts on a sim
pie suit with taste and effect she will
pass the woman VINO puts on 6ldD-
crate fineries without the effect.
BELT AIDS THE FIGURE.
The belt if well chosen and prettily
adjusted will play a grand role in Civ
ing the wearer a figure. If the skirt
and shirt are well adjusted there is left
little for the belt except to be neatly
fastened, drawn down to conform with
the present fashions, and not be either
too tight or too loose. Many women
nave so overweening prediction for
4 snug girth about their waists that
the belt is adjusted to make a smaller
waist measure than their corsets are
fitted for; this being quite unhygienic
S utterly ruinous to their figures: it
lnnihilates the dainty symmetry, that
s conceived with such care in the we'll
made corset beneath.
Every element of the toilet could be
enumerated. and with each particular
points considered in its adjustment
which are vital in the attainment of
he perfect harmony, but which are so
lerpetually overlooked that one signs
hat so few know really how to dress
The hose should be as daintily fitted on
he calf of the leg. with the seam al
ways in the back, as the finger of
glove, and SO fastened that they will
Keep so. The shoes, if laced, should al
ways De loose lar down toward the toe
When putting them on and then laced
o comfortable snugness with the foot
II horizontal position. as if fiat on
he floor, as that is the position pro-
ucing the greatest strain. The petit
oat should not fit up closely round the
-aist. but fall slightly below, depending
rom a fitted yoke. The corset should
q put on with the lacings most excess ]
lively far apart, and the corset held
tell down the body, then adjusted to I
S contours, and the lacing drawn to it.