Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-25
MAY LOSE IDENTITY
If You Copy Fashion Plates Too
Closely.

Written for The Star.
Fascinating as is the quest of beauty to
the up-to-date woman, she runs an enor-
nous risk of losing her identity amid tho
mass of women who are as eager in its
pursuit as herself. Examine the fair de-
votee as she energies from the hands of
the beauty specialist and see if this isn't
true.
She usually begins by having her hair
arranged. The cofffeur, following his gen.
eral CUSTOM parts off the front and side
locks and curls them in undulating marcel
waves. These are pinned and pulled full
about the face and a portion of the back
hair is twisted together on top of the head.
The remaining locks then come in for their
share Of marching, and with scores of hair
pins they are made to complete the ripping
puff of hair that now encircles the head.
Madam must, of course, have a net to keep
the tresses in place and line Of jeweled
combs and barette to finish the hair dress
ing. The result is that she steps forth
with an irreproachably coiffed head, inim-
table were It not that every third woman
she meets has been through exactly the
same process and come out of 1t looking
quite as much like the same fashion plate
of the coiffeur.
Next in the beauty quest comes the mas
saying of the face. The crows feet about
the eyes are eliminated, the eyebrows are
shaped into perfectly symmetrical cres-
cents. the laughing lines that surround the
mouth are rubbed out and a touch OF paint
here and bit of powder there hide all the
delicacy of natures varied colorings, When
these intricate operations are finished, what
is the effect? A woman's face does. 1t Is
true, look for all the world like French
bisque dolls. but if she smiles the crows
feet win return; If she shows her peariy
teeth the lines around her mouth will APP
pear, and to exercise the muscles of her
face would be to destroy the artistic appli.
cation of the pink and white complexion
Hence she Is forced to Danish all express
sion Of emotion or finer feeling from the
lace and present to each and every per-
son she meets the same smooth, symmetrt-
cal, sober countenance day in and day QUIZ
She becomes one in an assembly of almost
painfully pretty women who display netth-
er sympathy nor animated beauty.
TO leave her figure In the original shape
In which nature formed 1t would be to dis
regard the very elements Of the beauty spe-
cialists anything but Venus ideals The
puxom woman consequently Is braced into
q pair of tight stays that reduce all trace
or her prettily sloping hips and transform
her into a nachine-made show figure.
hardly to be distinguished from the gor~
seousiy attired dummies which catch her
attention in the shop windows. Her sister
OF slender proportions to gain the fasiions
able figure of the hour copies the same
conventions stiff shape Of the plump woI1s
an and hides all her sylph-Ake ntheness
beneath puffs and pads OF every sort and
description,
With Y all the woman OF 1905 has attalps
ed her object of looking Like the most hnr
ished fashion plate. But 10 doing 80 ell4
mas SACRIFICED great deal OF Individual
charm In her personal appearances, and ur,
less she thinks out her own style of. beauty
entire identity Ia an army Of perfectE st.
tlreq expressaonless womeus