The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27

Carter Brown Library. too. and good dresers- I have seen among American women on the other side. Mrs. Grace Vanderbilt and Mrs. Ogden Mills are among the number. but Mrs. Astor is the most glorious type have ever seen come out of your country"
 Do you really think. then, that American women are the best dress- CTS in the world. as some have said?'. was asked.
 No and yes." answered Mrs. Will Hams. Take an American woman in London or Paris and she stands out like a beautiful lily. She knows so well how to wear her clothes-her ball gowns. her reception toilettes. and the like. but take her in her summer things. In her out-of-town clothes. the Eng. fish woman. think. looks far better, You see your women haven't the knack of dressing for the country. I have been told that the reason for 1t is that you haven't here any country. You are all town folk.
 Defines the 'Well Dressed"
 Your women do not shoot or go in for cross-country riding and for the out-of-door life of our women conse- NNShSAy WhOh yOu uTCSS TUT such aI fairs your clothes are either ultra smart. which is not good taste in such things. else they are not simple enough and trim as those affected by the Eng fish woman. In fact, the English wo- man Is more at home in such things, for the simple reason that she is in them more than she is in anything else, save a dinner gown" explained Mrs. Williams.
 e~ good style in dress in women-what in other words is maent by the pharse well dressed?"
 T consider that a woman who is we'll dressed must first be dressed to ssuit the oeca asion," the best dressed woman,in London replied. "A woman may have on the most exquisite gown In the world, but if it were an after noon calling frock and she was wear ing 1t in the morning on a shopping tour in ugly, rainy weather. she instance. upon morning like this, I should always wear a short skirted dark gown. rather plain, because of the darkness of the day. Light clothes, in color. never look we'll In rainy weather on the street, no matter if they are simply made. think"
 Mrs. Williams certainly looked SthoA 0icScCu dS 6u0 WAS TOT a IrlD to Washington. Her gown was of dark blue. thick Melton cloth, made with a nifty little jacket. with vest of russet brown trimmed with ssoupL cons of gold braid. Cuffs of. the same bright brown were upon the severely tailor made sleeves. A dark blue ribbon bow at her neck was snugly tied and a tiny pin of dia- monds was thrust through 1t.
 Hair Like Bernhardt's.
 Her skirt was walking length and trimmed with black soutache braid and wider silk Hercules braid. Her hat was in the toQue shape, made of russet brown draped cloth or felt, and trimmed jauntily upon one side with blue and white mottled breast and coQue feathers She wore a brown veil with brown lace-like polka dots, and her hair iuffed softly about her In color and texture her hair Is not unlike that of Sara Bernhardt's.
 Mrs. Williams har the proverbial red cheeks of the English woman the color that comes of life in the open and of exercise and deep breathing
 we have the advantage over the American women in our color I think" said Mrs. Williams. with charming directness. We all have good healthy complexions if they are not as vel vety as some of yours. But we are very proud of our health and we love 1 the causes that bring about such things. I dearly love life in the coun- try-our rural England is the loveli- est thing imaginable"
 Aside from a brilliant complexion Mrs. Williams has wonderfully fine brown eyes, mirthful and alive in ex- pression. She is indeed a most beau tiful woman. She has a finely formed, slightly aquiline nose and an upturned mouth. which accentuate the youth of her face. Those who have seen her in evening gown say that she has an K quisitely formed and brilliantly white neck and she affects the picturesque type or dress for ball and dinner gowns.
 Prevailing Mode Ignored.
 Continuing upon the subject of dress Mrs. Williams said that the prevailins mode was not necessarily good dress. Ing.
 That is wherein some of your wo men fail in dress; they stick too cIoselN to the modes and fashions of each sea son rather than dress according t, what best suits them. never consid CT the model only wear what I con sider Is becoming. For instance, s, many women wore last season thos, little cooked up hats affected by tn French, but to English women the. are very unbecoming-our faces ar, too long-and those lines were accentu ated by that style of hat. I stuck tj my own particular style of hat, as I al ways do when I find the prevailing styles unbecoming.
 For evening gowns I am sorry t see that the trains are becoming & short, for nothing Is more becoming t woman than the long, graceful lines still wear them, despite the dictate of fashion"
 Among the most beautiful and re markable of the evening gowns of Mir Williams. which undoubtedly will mak a furor here upon the occasions whe she will appear in them. are three ex Qusite frocks. One is of rich crimso vevet. made in Venetian style, with magnificent collar of Venetian poln over gold tissue, fiaring out from tn low cut corsage about the shoulder nd hack