The suburban citizen., 1902-01-18
USE OF THE PIN.
The Very Important Part It Plays in
Womnn's Life,

WOmnn's Lltes
A great deal of scorn is heaped upon
the woman, who, as the saying goes,
is pinned together" She is put down
as untidy and lazy and generally shift
less The scornful critics do not stop
to consider that the most artistic
French dresses and hats are seldom
"well made;" that graceful and lovely
as they are, the mere stitchery is very
light and unreliable, apt to give way
at any moment. French hooks and
eyes, frills and bows, are all apt to
come off after one sewing. Mere sew
ing is not the artistic thing for which
one pays eXorbitant prtces. Any little
convent girl can sew well. The great
couturiere charges for deft touches in
spired adjustments, graceful drapery,
beauty Of outline. Clothes should be
put on with art as well as with skill.
There is more affinity in the cunning
fold placed with the aid of a pin than
there Is in rows of mere strong stitch
cry. Personality cannot be expressed
in frock that any other woman could
duplicate It must have special touches
of its own, and it cannot have these
if the woman who wears it despises
the use Of the pin.
Many women spend large sums on
their clothes and never seem on good
terms with them. Their frocks are
very we'll made-too well made to have
any subtlety or Illusion. Every fold is
in place. Every frill is secured by
strong thread. Everything is so strong
ly sewed that no mystery can lurk in
a fold, and no expression lie in the
curves or lines of a skirt. When you
have once seen a toilet, there it ends;
the second time you are deadly tired
of 1t, and finally it gets on your nerves.
How you long to see a little difference
in the bodice, a curve in the sleeve that
you had not noticed before! But all
this would mean imagination or pins!
Consequently the notion of n pin is
abhorrent; it is untidy; the dressmaker
has not done her work properly; she
has been paid for something for which
she has not given full value
ETY., while in the solidity of thread and
needle it is hardly ever to be found.
Women should recollect that in the
sordid actuality of dress there is
neither art nor beauty. Style is in
finltely more difficult to procure than
fashlon-one is a triumph of the mind
the other is always procurable with
gold No other attribute is so neces-
sary to those who wish to be well
dressed as good style, but it is general
ly inherent and only TO be found in the
woman who possesses imagination, and
You can call it chic if you like, but
neither style nor chic can be obtained
in present day dressing without the aid
of the despised pin.
The woman who says she never
uses a pin is hopeless; she might as
well say she does not wear corsets.
When you have looked long and crit
ically at such a woman, you will real
ize that nothing matters; her clothes
cover her, and that is all one can say
Her dressmaker may be more or less
Of genius, and win stitch the draper
les so that they suit her fairly well;
the stuff may be pretty and the style
unobjectionable-what there is of it;
1t only lies with the dressmaker, and
she has had to firmly stitch her best
aspirations. Consequently there is a
certain suggestiveness Of heavy baked
pudding throughout.-New York Com
mercal Advertiser.