The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16
ARTS OF The FRENCH WOMAN.
THE SECRET OF BEING CHIC IN
DRESS AND FIGURE.


~The American woman is not chic said
a physical culturist and beauty lecturer,
"and she never will be until she learns the
arts Of the French woman.
There never were a. many pretty Ameri-
can women as now. The girls are tall and
fair and the women are ~voluptuous and
blooming. All wear costly dress.
"Wheni il comes TO being chic, however, they
are not in II. A thousand times l have been
asked: How can l be chic?' and I hardly
know what TO say.
~One of the principal reasons why the
French woman is chic is her underwear.
IL Is always dainty TO the last degree.
There Il a subtle something by which
you can tell IL. 1t may be only the sus-
picion OF q rustic; it may be only a chance
display Of lace; it may be just IN merest
suggestion OF lingerie, but you get the idea
that there Is more daintinees than shows
upon the surface.
sThe American girl wears expensive
enough lingerie, out she seldom makes it
chic. Thare is something lacking.
-She may lift up her skirt and show an
ali silk petticoat, but it is not a petticoat
that bewitches. 1t is merely a piece Of silk.
The French woman, il she were to lift
her skirt, would bewitch you.
THE explanation is this: The French
woman never makes a mistake. In taste
she is superb.
eff hef skirt is a French pink, you may
be sure hat her shoe heels are French
heels and her stockings pretty stockings.
She never mixes things up.
"The English girl, on the other hand,
3 Is quite pathetic in her combinations. I'm
der a petticoat of charming hue and ire
proachable style she will display roots that
are uncoTnpromisingly masculine.
THE American girl. charming as she is,
has a great deal to learn Of the French
woman. One thing is how not to get fat,
for one explanation OF the chic Of the
French woman is that she is thin.
at is said that the French woman IL
naturally lean and that she keeps her figure
by simply doing nothing at all. Yet this i,
not wholly 40. She diets and she exercises
In her own way.
THE French woman would hardly 60 To
a Sium mornings, for it Is too much
Nike hard work; but she exercises in othel
ways.
-She does her own homework and glorie'
in it. She IL not lazy. True, she does MOI
go into the kitchen and polish the brass
kettles, but she does a deal Of work arounc
the house.
From cleaning out the freplaces anc
setting the fires an occupation which
her dainty hands are not wholly above-tC
buying the meat for dinner, she is Away
occupied.
THE American woman does not like h
market and she despises the grocer. Sh'
dislikes the details Of her household anC
she abhors light h~ousework.
There is, then, nothing left for her bu
the gymnasium, and she must take to /
10 keep her figure.
~The French woman has a little waist
Rnd she keeps 1t small by her diet. Sh'
eats very little that she does not rant h
eat.
The American woman cannot resist tn.
temptation to eat. She passes from SOUP
TO fsh, from entree 70 roast. from this x
salad, and 90 on all the way along to des
j sert, without refusing anything. Tn,
French woman never does that. She eat
In moderation.
"The French woman sits down and eat
long. IL not heartily. Her drink is a littI
weak red wine, and she partakes Of a meat
a salad and a little coffee. Very seldom
does she eat anything more. II is this diet
ing that keeps her thin.
the American woman il apt 70 have Z
pretty figure at the start. At the ago o