The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

cred an expert at my business, and
every day very exclusive dressmakers
come to me for hints. They want to
know how to make their customers
look taller. Frequently they bring lay
figures to me to be dressed in a stat
uesque way. / understand the art OF
even making a lay figure look tall.
There is a furore now among girls,
American girls especially, to look tall.
Even the French Woman, who has
hitherto been content Ito look chic, is
anxious to look higher than she is.
"This opens up a new field for the
artistic woman; and fell into it i'm
mediately, My special mission is to
make womna look a great deal taller
than she really is. In some cases this
is very difficult; in others it is very
easy.
There are women who naturally
look short. They are tall enough, but
they are so fat that they look little.
There is no making them look any
thing but dumpy. The only thing in
their case is to reduce the weight.
Until they thin there is no such thing
as increasing their height. I have a
dozen of these day. They are fat
and dumpy looking, and they come to
me clamoring to look tall and stylish.
Reduce your weight is about all
[ can say to them. But l manage TO
do so in very diplomatic way, so that
they depart thinking they are very
nearly perfection just as they are.
''The girl who is too short must get
thin. Thin people always look taller
than they really are. AS rule the
slender girl longs to be fat But the
minute she is fat she will look shorter.
So she better keep thin and tall look
ing.
But there are girls who are so
short that they look little in spite OF
being thin. No matter how slender,
they still look little. To these girls
there are words of good advice.
Don't, if you are short, wear tight
fitting clothing. The little short thin
woman who puts on skin-tight dresses
will look weazen. She will look
shrivled up. She will look old For
she will have that curiously dried up
appearance which belongs to the aged.
Dress your shoulders broad if you
are little. 1t adds somehow to your
height. No one can telIwhy it is, but
he. broad shouldered gil always looks
taller than she really il. That is the
secret of the wonderful figure OF the
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and it adds a foot to her height.
Shoulder puffs, fat sleeves and all
sorts of devices for increasing the
breadth of the shoulders, were invent
ed, not for the fat girl, but for the
short girl. They are becoming and the
modistes cling to them.
"The short girl can also make her
self look taller by wearing long skirts.
These increase the apparent height
and make the short girl graceful. They
may not be hygienic but they are i'm
mensely becoming. Put a short girl
in a trained gown and she will imme
diately take on height and dignity.
"The short girl may wear stripes
running lengthwise and she may wear
the princess dress, and she can, if she
so desires, get herself up in trimmings
and stuffs that run from head to foot.
All of these will make her look a little
taller. But she should not overdo the
matter The short girl should never
be conspicuous in dress nor should
she wear many frills. They make her
look old and fussy.
But there are other things beside
dress to make the short girl look tall.
And one of these is her coiffeur. The
short woman should dress her hair as
high as possible, and, if necessary,
add tall comb to make it still higher.
OF course she will avoid being gro
tesque, but she will carry the hair
dressing as far as possible without
going to extremes.
There is a certain short girl in So
ciety. She wears high heels, but not
high enough to make her look aWk-
ward. She dresses in tan colored
gowns and in ecru and gray. She
wears everything to make her look
larger than she really is, for she does
not weigh 100 pounds. Her skirts are
striped and Powered, checked and
plaided. The girls hair is always
coiffed high. And on top of the high
Golf she wears a hat well fitted at one
side and trimmed with a rather high
plume. No one suspects her of being
the shortest girl in the four hundred.
But there are other ways of making
a girl look tall. One of these is by
making her muscles supple. The girl
who carries herself slowly and stiff
ly, who walks on huch high heels that
she appears to be on stills, who moves
as though she were in asvise, will al
ways look short provided she is nat
urally short.
But the short girl whose muscles
are supple, the short girl who can
move lightly and gracefully, the short
girl who understands how to bend and
bow, and who can go through room
easily and without console BUSINESS, this
is the girl who looks taller and more
stylish than she really is.
"short girls are usually very self
conscious. They imagine that every
one is looking at them. They go
through life fancying that they are OBJ
jects of interest to all: Really no one
notices girl who is very short. But
it is hard to convince the short girl OF
this. She thinks the whole world is
watching her. It is a case of morbid