Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
AUTUMN PICTUREGIR
TO BE WELL DRESSED TAKE I'M
THE WHOLE EFFECT.
Merely Fashionable Women Consider
Each Article Separately-This is
the Difference Which Counts.

The well-dressed woman is ALWAYS a pic
ture. She knows from the moment that
she purchases the fabric for her frock to
the moment that she stands before the
mirror and takes a last long, satisfying
look at the tout ensemble that she is going
TO De picture. From the ribbons on her
nat TO the buckles on her shoes she has
worked conscientiously to carry out the one
erect which photographed itself upon her
MIND when first she planned her costume
1t Is not only in her ruff1ed summer frocks
and smart little sunbonnet that she looks
as though she should be framed but In
every garment She dons, from her lace
trimmed night robe to her fur-trimmed win
ter coat. Like the actress, she considers
herseif In perspective places herself men,
tally against the natural and proper back
ground, and begins to draw In the lines
which will complete the picture.
This means, of course, of the well-dressed
woman; not of the woman who is merely
smart, because she knows what is being
worn and has the money to purchase it.
who wears a Gainsborough hat, a Gibson
waist and colonial shoes without pin
prick of pride of conscience, without one
pang of the artistic soul. The well-dressed
woman is like the clever, chic Parisienne
who always secs herself" as the actress
would express it, in a frame, and who con-
sequently is always charming-never over
dressed. Even the nursery maids in Paris
are smart. They study themselves.
nursery maids, and live up to the artistic
ideal of the nursery maid, just as we study
ourselves as Gibson girls or Christie girls
and work night and day to look our
parts The Partisan shop girls, too,
chic and attractive looking. They do not
aim to be cheap limitations of the society
buds, but place themselves, mentally, be-
hind the counter and decide first what will
look most appropriate, most charming and
most picturesque in the environment which,
mn he fhair &c ~
art, art-with perhaps exceptionally
shapely corset-which makes the Partisan
woman the leader of fashion.
Autumn, and this autumn in particular
gives the girl who would be a picture the
most wonderful opportunities to carry out
her ambition. Autumn, with its warm,
glowing tints is the sort of background
against which to wear poppy -wrea thed
hats, or scarlet shooting Jackets and scar
let fedoras This autumn the importers
are showing robes and skirts and jackets
that look quite as though they had been
cut from an old-time picture book. One
enterprising New York shop already has
several dozen imported frocks on exhibit
ton. Strolling through its show rooms one
can almost fancy ones self back in the
days of ones grandmother so quaint are
the little brown silk mantles with their
brown velvet bands, the dove-colored Zibe-
lines with their grotesque sleeves, and the
black lace evening gowns with their flowing
angels wings. There glowing red tailor
SUITS too, that remind one of autumn
leaves, and yellow silks and pongees that
look like reflections from the golden rod.
Every gown seems to have motif to be a
picture in which 1t is only necessary to set
the right girl.
A young woman who returned from Paris
last week brought back trunk full of
pretty between-season picture gowns that
will without doubt be copied wherever they
are seen. September is such an interroga-
ton point in the puctuatiOn of the fashions
that any idease which come floating over
the water are at once snapped up. The
prettiest Of this girls frocks was a street
suit of wine colored zibeline built on green
silk. The skirt was perfectly plain, except
for three broad bands stitched about the
lower half. and was cut with the seam
down the center of the front. The jacket
was blouse. with vest of white velvet and
chic collar smartly appliqued in dead
white guipure The sleeves were Of the
now popular shade, fiat at the top, but