The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-04-01
PADDING IS BUT A
DAINTY LITTLE FlB
So Rule the international Dress
makers, Who Ought to
Know About 1t.
CURVE OF THE BACKBONE
That's All Women Need to Understand
in Order to Look Stylish in Calico
Gowns-The Vanity of the
Mere Men.

Chicago special: The secret of the
enticing. captivating feminine forms,
viewed on the streets of Americas lead
ing cities OF late years and generally
attributed to physical culture, has been
revealed. Not physical culture all the
time. 1t is padding. This padding-the
careful molding OF a beautiful figure on
q human skeleton, as has been dis
closed, is the height of the dressmak-
ers' art.
An exhibition of how it is done was
given at the International Dressmakers'
convention today when the divine
forms used in the exhibition of gowns
and corsets were for the first time not
needed and We're given a day off. Their
places were taken by girls more
%slenderly built, forms possessing more
angles that the wonderful advantages
OF padding might be more clearly dem
oustrated-and truly it was wonderful,
the transformation that came over
these angular forms when the dress
makers had completed their separate
demonstration. No woman need want
Tor a form in this day of dressmakers.
"Men Are Wise" She Said.
Are the masculine admirers Of won-
anly beauty being accorded fair treat
ment by the practise Of those tricks
OF the dressmakers' art which give to
a figure that charm which nature had
OeIleu Is HOl lHe IlCllllouS oeNelop-
ment' of a customer of the modlste a
violation of the thou shalt not de-
ceive" of the ethical code?
These questions We're ~propounded to
Mime. Baker after the skill of the build
or of gowns In Transforming a medi-
OGRE figure into one THAT is intoXi-
catingly piquant had been exhibited
by several demonstrators. She freely
discussed the question from the moral
viewpoint, defending the practice as a
harmless and helpful .'fib." And as
the keystone of her philosophy of the
tailor made figure she said, Men are
wise"
1T is the dressmaker's duty said
Nine. Baker, ito send every one of her
customers away from her establish
ment contributing more to the beauty
of the world than wfen she came. II
some women are not ndowe with the
plumpness and the curves which ma
ture has given to others and which are
a joy to the aesthetic senses, why
should she not be helped by the means
that are within the power of the wom-
an who makes her dresses?
The Vain, Vain Men,.
Men like to be seen With women
who are charming in face and figure.
They nave a distaste for the society
ance. Should they then feel that their
confidence was being abused when the
PM whose lines are u%ngraceful Eor-
rows the little attractiveness from her
'dressmaker? The men know, and the
women know they know, and the men
konw that the women know that they
know, and it makes life more pleas
ant. so where Is the harm?
II admit that a deception is inherent
IN this adjoining of the wtthered rose,
but it is one of those white lies which
do good instead Of i'll. A fire started in
~, L,,r1h ,,,ljjo 10 xr,1 ~
preaching. He dismissed the congrega-
ton by telling them he was i'll. There
is no more sin in the skilful tricks of
the dressmaker than in this well inten-
toned ruse of the minister.
And. after all. can the men COM
plain with justice, when the employ
4nent OF padding in mems clothes has
low can buy a pair of athletes Shout
Tiers at his tailor's and even corsets are
worn by the fops?"
Curve Your Backbone, She Says.
Mrs. Linda Rosswade Of ST. Louis,
who talked of ''backbones" before the
convention last night, offered a panacea
for the poo figure and the ill-fitting
dress. 1t is merely curve your back
bone"
II car make a stylish woman out of
a trump in ten days." she said, ''mere-
iy by a ten-minute's ak each day.
Measurements and curves do not count
when it comes to carrying clothes with
style. 1t is all in the poise of the body;
curve the backbone and throw out the
shoulders.
Nowadays the stylish girl wins out
where the girl with brains and bad
looks fails. By style I mean fashion,
can dress q girl who knows how to
carry herself In stun for nineteen cents