Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-17
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ORACLE AT DREssMAkERs' CON.
vENTIoN TELLS WOMEN HOW
TO ATTRACT MEN.

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TO ATTRACT MEN.
Keep the Shoe Laces Tied This is
Most Important - Also Wear Red
Men Like the Color, But Beware
Of Being Too Masculine.
How to dress to attract man, how
to dress to catch him, and how to
dress to hold onto him-this was the
subject handled recently by Nine. Lin
ola Rose Wade before very select au-
dience of unmarried young women,
who are attending the convention OF
the National Dressmakers' association
in the Fine Arts building in Chicago.
The lecture was not down on the
program but Nine Wade had an in.
SEPARATION early in the afternoon when
she saw a bevy of young ladies enter
the convention hall, some of them
we'll dressed and some of them "shod-
dy' as Mme.Wade afterward told them
in unmistakable language.
So the affable vice president of the
national organization corraled the
damsels into a private room and
when the door was locked and a
guard stationed to keep away married
women, and, above all, men, she be-
gan.
TITS just awful the way some of our
young girls Dress" said the lecturer,
as beginner. "It's enough to drive
any man crazy, and if you want to be
solid with the men-and they are the
ones we dress for-just listen to me.
Watch Your Shoe Laces.
'In the first place never go round
the house in the morning after you
rise with your shoes unlaced and the
part Of your shirt waist that ought to
be inside on the outside of your skirt
Your particular young man might
happen in unexpectedly some morning
and then it would be all off.
Instead of the dirty, untidy shirt
waist, put on neat dressing gown
Not a big sloppy one, but one that is
tidy and neat. Instead of the over
worn shirt waist in the afternoon, put
on neat little blouse of some sort.
"In your evening gowns don't look
like prude. Our American girls
seine to be carrying the decollete te
: the extreme, because they think the
men demand it of them. The fact o.
the matter is, the men hate it exceed
\ ingly-that is, the men who care fol
us and whose opinions and affections
we should value. Many girl appears
Z immodest, not exactly because she
: wants to be. but because she has no
e, been discreet and has lost her heat
I. when ordering new gown?
It Low Cut Gowns Lure.
v. 'Have low cut gown that show!
st off the beauty and lines of the neck
# That is proper and admirable. Blu
"a don't think because everybody II
# looking at you that you are pretty ant
lie pleasing. When people stare there i
"a something wrong. For the girl who il
'. human hat rack a high collar will
!, her evening dress is proper. She Gil
u, ~ wear yolk of chiffon or netting.
"a In colors as in everything else, yo1
lie should wear what best pleases tn
e. man you like. Find out what h
Of thinks becomes you best and wear |
IN most, whether you think it's most be
a coming or not. Red is the color tina
g. g pleases most men. When they like
70 they cannot get enough of it. Blu
Ia when they dislike it, for goodness
m sake never wear it. because it's Xix
Id shaking red shirt in front of bull
l. High heels should never be wor
III except in the ballroom or on tn
ar stage. Never should they be worn o
I'd the street when walking The walkin
lg or cowboy skirt denotes western lif
ne and western athletics and high heel
IN cannot be reconciled with either. The
On give an unnatural walk, which forbid
is all grace and instead of looking prett
in the girl who wears them spends a
m her energy trying to keep from fal
81 ing.
IS Dress to Suit Favored Ones.
" always dress to suit your me
~ friends-the ones that count. If the
make suggestions listen to then
Don't get angry when they suggest {
object They are the better Judge
ne and when man says thing
as wrong, it's wrong. Many girl he
es lost handsome match by telling
IS = man to mind his own business in tn
If matter when really he was mindir
of his own business. If man won't So
e- what he wants to, he is no friend.
CHI Don't be mannish. Don't dress ma
u nish. Men don't like that. Don't a
et pear worldly. and you can best do th
de- when you are not worldly. The worl
* ly woman might entertain a man, b.
le- he never loves her.
est "Study the men. Play to their no
" bies. Every man has a hobby, ar
when you find it out cater to it, al
then you will interest him. Fascina
the men. The best way to do that
to be your natural self. Don't alwa,
ed smile. Be cross and fight when "
lex have to. The versatile woman is Il
lis most fascinating The woman who ;
shs ways smiles is distrusted as putin
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