New-York tribune., 1904-09-22
BITS OF FASHION WISDOM.
Don't Look Like Monkey Even if Style
IS Popular"

Because thing IS the fashion shall make
monkey of myself and wear ito.
MISS Elizabeth White was discoursing about A
Paris gown for the instruction of the assembled
dressmakers yesterday morning when a query as
10 me relation Of the stout woman 10 the model in
question provoked the above Interrogation
Inc model was a severely plain and supremeIy
e4esant cloth costume of the new color called
cachou, a soft. beautiful golden brown. and the
SKIRT which fell 10 the feet of the waxen wearer
IN fine untrimmed folds was laid about the hips
IN pleais three inches deep Clearly this no
French girls have no hips explained Miss
" hite Therefore they can wear thing ike this
something OF it, Ii l want that amount of fuIness
about the feet-it is six yards and a halr-and
"4 can pa N '4S weny P 9Ry R IL e
viii 90 under the pleats and nobody viii see them
% you cut street skirts circular" asked a
II you want To be dirty and sloppy you do"
said Miss White. sarcastically. otherwise
would suggest your keeping the circular skirt
2T me house and and earTsse ase Crogsr skrss KRIS
hang in vs. an around and in a long dress the
sags. nobody has any respect for you. The ele-
giant taIIormades touch the ground all around but
! don wnat any one wants to wear them IL
Some women wouldn't know what to do with
their hands If they didn't have a skirt to hold up,
some one suggested.
Then they can't have any character" said Miss
White decisively. If you have anything in you
your hands will be part Of yourself and you
won't have 10 be hunting for place TO put them
Deliver ne from man that puts his hands in his
pockets"
As the company progressed from one model TO
another. Miss White explained that Paris models
must be taken with discretion. To the unnstructed
a Paris model is a Paris model but il anuears
that Paris models differ, Ike the stars from one
another. and that even the different parts are OF
different value
You can 20 to Paris and come back without
knowing a biz more tnan when you started said
Miss White you've got TO get into the swim
and get hold OF the ideas that count When YOU
study these models you must distinguish between
the points that and those that are old
Each one was bought for some particular virtue and
you must initiate that and not the whole gown.
Now. this little rose frock. for instance II has A
blouse bodice. which is old. but shows the
combination oS chiffon and braid which is new.
The blouse bodice is still being made and hun
dreds OF women will want it vet but It is old.
This brown cloth dress has a hundred good ideas.
but don't think Of copying il. II is much
elaborated, To my mind woman looks like
monkey with so many fxings
Mss White concluded with word about the
AgeTnent OF customers Supposing. Of the
dressmakers suggested. the customers should not
care for the kind of gowns the convention had
been teaching them 70 make
You must educate them differently. then said
Miss White. Do the right thing for them. and
they wont complain Il they DO. don't work for
them
This last Miss White seemed 70 regard a
certain means OF bringing refractory customers
time.