The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04

gown Intentionally she becomes wo-
man who has lest her self respect"
Here the Line Is Drawn.
But how do you draw the line of
/ distinction between the woman of this
/ gown and the woman who wears
| tights?' Miss Gillette looked at her
| heel, and snapped the last hook on her
/ d0ublet.
This is where the line is drawn:
/ When you first put on tights you feel
timid. That skirt is gone that you
/ might have drawn about you You
stand alone, quite alone, with only
\ your dignity to buoy you up. tt is
/ worse than a camel ride in the Sahara
] desert. SooE you become a bit used to
! the tights. You still must maintain
/ your dignity, and must not. look down
! at your tights, lest you remember that
they are there. You think of other
/ things. and then-then you act just
| as though you had on your everyday
/ clothes. You naturally make no more
I Of the fact that YOU are in tights than
7 In absolutely necessary. and you say
/ % yourself over and over. Everyone
/ thinks as I do-everyone thinks as 7
] do and in that way you keep your
] equilibrium"
Yes. that is the tights side Of the
/ question, but now for the story Of the
gown.
"Um-that comes next Miss. Gillette
patted a light curl near her temple
That movement did not belong to the
Fairy Prince; it belonged to Miss Gil
lette.
Now, the gown is different in this
wise: You put it on that you may dis
play your figure to che best advant-
/ age, that you may DO so under the
guise Of beautiful clothes. and all the
/ time you have this gown on you are
/ thinking Of your posture. Of your foot.
your arm. neck. shoulders. Are they
al in the position that viii best ex-
hibit your lines? Are you now max
ing yourself most repulsive to your
refined audience by sitting thus on the
table, by reclining so in a chair, by
standing that way on a flight of stairs?
Are you-are you doing all that the
woman in tights is accused of trying 10
dO-hounung your lack Of self-respect
in the face Of the public?"
Miss Gillette had become much ex-
cited. she had begun in her own pleas
ing voice. but she had increased in
/ speed and tone toward the last Of the
sentence until her voice filed the dress
ing room, and two bright little spots
were on her cheeks
I thought better 10 change the sub
ject. that the public might see their
Fairy Prince in all the quiet of his
usual entrance, so = said:
Are they not more comfortable
tights?"
Comfortable? Wen, yes: they are
as comfortable as can be-after you
are used TO them. But there's the hard
part. Short skirts do not compare with
tights for comfort. They are perfectly
splendid. Just as long as you can sue
coed I'm forgetting that you have them
on they are splendid.
Then they are easier to act in and
you would advise women to-"
The Danger of vulgarity.
Mono. I wouldn't do so at all. I
wouldn't advise any woman TO wear
tights on or of the stage You see. in
the long run it depends upon the wO-
man, upon her Stamina, whether she
can wear tights gracefully or not. and
a vulgar woman in tights is dreadful
while a woman naturally refined is
well. is not at all bad But deliver me
from your twentieth century clinging
clothes"
That was the last word from Miss
Gillette as she went from her dressing
room 10 awake that Sleeping Beauty
with a kiss, and as I watched her from
the side Of the stage. certainly 1 was
convinced that ii was really the man
ner in which tights were worn, and
not the fact that they were tights. that
created the entire impression. and I.
too barred the clinEing drapery and
left it for that incubus-the society
play.