The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-24

Never yet was there a normal WON
an who did not wish to dress we'll
What dressing we'll means is deter
mined by each one for herself. In the
early stages it probably meant unlim-
tied fig leaves, and a. little later a new
pelt from this or that animal or a new
style in garment woven OF the bark
of trees.
Appropriate dressing should be an
easy matter for the woman who has
a generous allowance for her ward
robe. Then it is her own fault If she
does not have suitable costumes for
every emergency. Appropriate dress
ing is also without complications for
the women who never go anywhere
except to church, and whose needs are
supplied by working frocks and one
gown for best. Even such one
doubtless thinks she has her troubles,
but they are as nothing to those of the
woman who must, so to speak, serve
two maSters-Or who, in other words,
must fill more functions than those Of
the housekeeper and ohurch-goer, and
must dress for these other things
without exceeding g. comparatively
small sum. Such a woman finds dress
ing we'll more or less of a problem
usually more rather than less.
To women like this the fashion of
separate skirts and waists has come
as a positive boon. In the days when
one must have g. whole gown Of one
material, dressing was more complex
even than it is now. Every one whose
memory goes back to those times can
recall how the waists gave out before
the skirts and left one with a supply
Of the latter in tolerable order and
painful dearth Of the former. Now,
when one has q skirt of which the
body part is past worthy, a shirt waist
can be made to take the place of the
outworn garment.
Even with this expedient it is still
possible for women to make mistakes
in their dressing. One of the chief of
these they commit when they buy
conspicuous clothing. q am speaking
now of the woman who must wear one
gown a long time.) The striking eff
feet may be charming at first but be-
fore the frock or the hat or the coat Is
half-worn out the woman who wears 1T
and the friends who see her wear 1t
are tired to death of 1t.
Another blunder that women make
sometimes is in buying articles of ap-
parel which will not go together we'll.
We all know the woman who has
bought a snuff-colored gown and a
drab jacket, or a dark green gown and
hat trimmed with a blue that makes
a discord of tints that set the teeth on
edge. The woman who must econo-
that go together we'll and every piece
of her attire must be selected, not for
its beauty alone, but because it will
harmonic with the rest of her CO.'S
tune.
j. Simple styles should also be chosen
by the woman who can have only
limited wardrobe. Extremes In fash
Ion should be avoided. There is the
same objection to these that there
;, c~+o ,~tJi,, off to ~ lob T
referred a moment ago. More than
this, such woman should study what
suits her. Because a certain garment
looks we'll in a fashion plate or on a
figure in a show window it does not |
follow that it will do as much on
every woman. One would not believe |
the blunders which women will make,
did not one see illustrations Of such |
"breaks" on every side. The stout |
large and flaring patterns, the slim
"slanky'' women who adopt styles
with long, severe lines, the short |
dumpy figures that cut themselves in |
two in the middle by conspicuous
belts or by a glazing contrast between
the hues Of the stuff of the skirt and
the waist, encompass us about on
every side.
The tailor is the best friend Of the
woman who must be economical |
about her Globes. A. tailor made
gown, If the style in which 1t Is fash
toned is carefully chosen, is likely to
suit almost any figure. It's simplicity |
disarms criticism and renders it ap-
propriate for nearly any occasion ex-
cept one where full dress Is required.
The woman who has a. tailor made
skirt and Jacket Of good cut can let
her fancy go a bit in the matter of
shirt waists. She may have them
plain and serviceable for morning
wear, dressy and frilly for calling or
the theater or small social affairs,
and she may seek a compromise be-