The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-14
TO LOOK LIKE MEN
ST. PAUL. WOMAN DOES NOT ADJ
MIRE 1T
If Women Were Clever They Would
Accumulate Their Femininity Instead
of Tying to Initiate the Dress and
Manners of Men

st. Paul woman was much dis
gusted the other day by seeing in a
dry goods shop window a sign over
some gowns which read: --latest man.
pish suits. She said the world of
women seemed to be going mad oven
dressing like men and she for one
thought they only detracted from their
charm by this effort to be other than
they We're intended to be by thei1
Creator. She said the tendency was
noticeable now even when girls are
four or five years old, in their wearing
overalls like their little brothers and
when a little older they have dresses
made in Hlg Inland fashion, such as boys
wear in Scotland. Formerly little boys
wore dresses, but now they are put
into trousers almost before they can
toddle. This viii do for boy babies,
but the dressing of girls when they are
little, and of young women in mascu-
line style, is part Of the great coming
OUT of women that is so essentially "a
modern thing. In st. Paul we have not
as much the extreme of this sort or
dressing. az is to be seen at times in
other places. But there are young
women, some of them society girls who
find tie m3nniSh sort of thing is be-
coming, and they cultivate it as max
ing them unlike others. 1t is carried to
extremes that. are vulgar and SenSa-
tional.
One girl Is so enamored of this man
niSh way of dressing that she has her
street costumes made short and plain,
her coat a facsimile of mans, while
in her skirt are pockets which CORE
spond to trouser pockets in which she
keeps her hands; she wears a Stiff
hat mans shirts made by man tailor
collar, neckiie and detachable cuffs, ana
swings along the street taking long
strides. Even her evening gowns are
made with severe plainnesS, and if she
Goes not cut her hair short, wears it
close to her head, without the sugges-
ton of curl or wave. Now, of course,
that girl attracts attention, but whether
1t is admiration or wonder we are left
to conjecture. There are girls who look
very fetching thus attired. and every
one will smile and think them attract
i've for d while, but this sort of dress
ing is, aftell all, not normal and a sign
of deep Siscoutent and dissatisfaction
on the Fart of women. Surely women
do not dress this way for the eyes Of
men, for the more intensely feminine
woman appears, the more folderols
and furbelow.; she has about her-un.
less she carries that too to an extreme
the more men admire her
The clevereSt women do not COPY the.
dress of men. The cleverest women
know human nature, and masculine ma
ture, and are contUnt to let we'll enough
alone. Instead of trying to initiate the
dress and manner of men, women
should accentuate their femininity, that
is, if they wish 10 appeal to the sterner
sex. A woman can wear severely
plain tailor maie costume and yet not
be mannish; there are many accesso-
ries of the toilet which are distinctively,
feminine, such as wells, frills, fancy
collars and what not which a man
would like his womankind to have be-
cause they are feminine: A very pretty
woman would attract attention and ad.
mlratiCn in a mannish dress, because
she would look well in anything, but
she would look ten times better if she
was attired in feminine way
To dress in the extreme of mannish
style is always an affectation, even
though it is an easy way to dress and
has its advantages in the way of COM
fort These heavy, dogskin gloves that
do not fit too tight are a great cons
fort to woman and are one of tho
mannlSh styles a woman may adopt
With IMMUNITY.
But the woman who is herself, who
dresses in womanly way and INDUCES
q love of feminine ornament is the more
likely to be admired by men than the
one who 'swaggers along in thick boots,
a stiff collar, and affects an Indifference
to her appearance which she regards
as masculine. 1t is better to be in
tensely what one is than to copy the
garb and manners of men.