The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-05
CHARACTER IN Clothes.
WOMEN MOST AFFECTED
The Woman Who Buys in a
Hurry Is Generally
Extravagant.

mans or woman's career is largely
matter of character. The determin-
ell face set to the front individual will
succeed under circumstances and con-
d!tions where the invertebrate, not
Quite sure of himself or anything else
person will go to the wall.
Now. it is quite remarkable how
character shows in clothes, writes NJ
lStanley Clark in the London Chronicle,
and this applies most particularly to
the weaker sex. A man, provided he
employs a good tailor and possesses a
trousers press, can hardly fail to be
well turned out. There. are certain well
defined lines from which nothing will
permit him to stray. But the multiplied
ty and manifolding of feminine attire
affords a much larger field for a wo-
man to make mistakes. Detail now
adays rides dominant and writes dow
dy or chic across a woman with all
| the fatal decision and destiny of the
moving f1ngea.
| We all know tive all meet daily
instances of it. Two sisters, perhaps,
who with dentically the same money
and opportunities ase one we'll, the 9TH
Ie9 poorly, turned out. A woman is al
ways judged by appearances, so the
badly and eunsultably dressed girl
Il starts heavily handicapped in the race
of life. No matter what stake she Is
leEtering for, there are long odds
against her passing the winning post
before her smarter sister.
This being o, and who will deny IT.
it seems a pity the i'll dressed woman
should not realize her plight, put her
pride In her pocket and determine to
mend her ways 1t isn't difficult now
adays to be we'll dressed-indeed, the
amount of ingenuity some people dis
play in securing the opposite result is
a matter for surprise. 1t Is almost i'm
possible to buy an ugly, inartistic ar
ticle in good shops, and milliners and
dressmaker alike are full Of taste, and
study face and figure far more than
they used to. For the rich woman
who is conscious of always choosing
the wrong thing I say, put yourself
in the hands of ONE clever madame,
wear what he tells you on the occas-
ions prescribed by her, and you will
L have cause to rejoice.
But for the moderate means woman
such Wholesale shifting Of the burden
is impossible. She cannot order at will
but has to turn and twist within the
limits of small dress allowance, max
ing one pound cover the needs of two
And here it is that the most fatal mis-
take of false economy Is made.
Four glazing instances in which
! economy always spell misery spring t
my mind The first two, as every one
,, will guess, are gloves and boots and
shoes. 1t hard to ay whether a CHEAP
COVE or a cheap shoe is the most hate
full, and, mark you, in the long rur
the most extravagant But il cut, Ill fit
ting gloves cannot hurt and harm 9
, hand as shoe can foot. Happy
comfortable feet have lot to say t
t health, and they are quite attainablt
: without having resort to broad toes and
! no heels. Another false economy Il
! cheap corsets. Let some experienced
corsetiere study your figure and care
fully fit you-don't pin your faith OF
what fits other persons.
And the fourth false economy is
your tailor made gowns. Don't, dom
+, get the little dressmaker who made
: your chiffon blouse so prettily to con
J trive you q tailor made golfing sui
, Tout of that length of tweed you picked
up at sale. If you can't go to gooC
man then buy your coat and Skin
ready made at some reliable hous,
where you will be sure Of a good cut
and good material and where the ne
eessary alterations will be carried out
by one of their own tailors
: These are four of the most glarine
false economies. Now, for the reverse
Z and less pleasant side Of the shield
where's to cut down.
First of all, start with a clear idea
and realization of what you have Il
spend on your dress annually. Appor.
J ton it quarterly, and as each quarter
Z comes around decide what you viii
7 need and what you must do without
during the next three months:
An important economy is not TO gel
] too many clothes Get what you want
: and wear it out at once, especially In
/ these days when fashion is so tickle
r Again, on the other hand, don't expect
one garment to cover as many needs
: as charity is supposed to cover sin
Sometimes ones dress can fulfil
two purposes-supply two needs. But
not very often. If it meets one crying
want really adequately it's all you car
expect of it. How often women say
l Eyes, l seem to have heaps of clothes
but nothing that is really right" This
| purgatorial state of existence is the
? Ioutcome of not knowing what you real
ly want and will really have need of
e and of trying to make one frock fill
two functions, with the result that il
i is not really right for either.
An important economy, and not such
i a small one either, is not to buy toe
expensive materials. l do not for mo.
e ment counsel patronizing shoddy
stuffs, but we don't wear out our
. gowns like our grandmothers did The
r polite salesman's plea that it will 'last
e forever" does not apply to our needs
/ as 1t did to theirs. We don't want
: things to last forever. In fact, it is
0 rather drawback. The knowledge
: that the material is of an out-of-date
S garment is "as good as new is apt
r to tempt one down the downward path
of pitching and patching.
p On the other hand, all sorts of econ.
d omies can be made and time saved by
d buying things in quantity instead OF