The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-16

Long ago a clever woman said that
there was but one successful way to
wear beautiful gown and that was to
forget It, But very few women are mis-
tresses of this important accomplish
ment- The great fault Of the prize
beauty is her self-consciousness The
average woman is not able to put on
new gown, especially if it be in any de-
gree elaborate and wear it with the
careless grace with which she assumes
the old tried favOrites OF her wardrobe
And this is why new gown is se~-Iten
oisap pOintment A dressed up AR
IS fatal to a good appearance The wo-
man who can wear pretentious toll
cite for the first time with apparent un-
consciousness Of the effect which she IS
creating Will not fail to make an ex-
cellent impression.
Some gowns. although elaborate and
beautiful. look from the first as though
they were made for the women who
wear them. Such d gown is an artis-
tic success.
The well dressed woman of whatever
type or whatever station is she who. in
the planning Of her wardrobe, considers
first her station in life and the use to
which her clothes are to be put then
her own tastes and her own style, puts
her clothes on carefully, makes herself
certain of the result in every detail. and
then forgets herself and her appearance
completely.
A visiting girl who was in Topeka this
week whose stockings were very greatly
admired by the women who saw her in
the privacy of boudoir negligee and
sandals confessed that she made them
herself Well not the entire stocking, Of
course, but her deft fingers supplied the
pretty touch which transformed a pair
of plain fifty cent Isle hose into as
charming detail of the summer or
evening toilet as could be imagined The
first step is to purchase a pair of plain
Isle thread or silk hose. You may pay
as much as you like for them but the
visiting girl said hers cost fifty cents,
aHd they were a fine and pretty quality.
entirely without ornamentation in the
way OF embroidery, drop stitch or lace
stripes. The next thing is to buy two
thirds of a yard of black lace insertion,
about two inches wide, which IS used to
form a strip up the middle Of the stock
ing from the instep to the knee. The
stocking is cut away beneath the lace
insertion and the turned under edges
whipped down and row of French
knots in black, white or colors border
the insertion on each side.
According to the eastern fashion jour
nails the tan shoes of the past few sea-
sons are to come back with the advent
of warm weather Indeed they have
already become conspicuous and unus-
ually attractive. The very smartest of
these shoes are made on a boys last,
and are as clumpy as ones little broth
ers. Imagine a maiden fair wearing
shoes with sOles half an inch thick and
heavy, shapeless uppers that are not
redeemed by the openWOrk trimming
that adOrns them.
For the latest sorts So is asked, and
only the very smart girls wear them,
for to anyone not unheld by sense
that she is wearing the newest and
smartest footwear they would be really
embarrassi in their ugliness.
The deeper shades Of tan are this year
most in demand. And again one sees
the colonial tongue and the colonial
buckle When the colonial buckle is of
nickel and the tint of the shoe is very
yellow the combination is something too
glazing to be approved of by the wO-
man with quiet tastes.
The girl who wears No. IS should not
indulge her propensity for light shoes
they greatly increase the apparent size
of the feet. They are cool. and they
do not show the dust. but they make
the foot look large-so all their other
virtues are as nothing.
When young woman puts on a pair
of tan shoes. a sailor hat and a white
linen frock she feels that she is ready