The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-11-29
collar of erminc.

A French artist has written pamphlet
entitled How to Look Tall, Though
Short" IT is compiled from interviews
with the leading dressmakers and it is
gathered from long years OF experience in
painting women who are short 1t tells
the short woman how to dress and how
to make herself look taller than she really
is
"Tho Styles" begins he. ARE terribly
impossible for the short woman. In all
the great dress studios one may hunt and
search and keep on hunting and searching
without once finding "A single style that
is intended for the short woman. 1t is as
though the race OF short women had be-
come extinct and all the women had be-
come tall.
"The worst of all styles for the stout
woman is the eton Jacket Yet for some
reason II is her special favorite. The eton
cuts her In two and makes her waist con-
spicuous. 1t is almost invariably trimmed
I'm lines that run around the waist, and
this makes her belt still bigger. When to
all the rest Is added "A girdle, then tho
work OF destruction is complete. The fat
woman looks like a squash. and there Is
none to tell her OF the resemblance
THE fat woman who divides her figure
| in the middle makes "A horrible mistake.
] She who puts on white shrtwaist and
| dark skirt is guilty OF artistic horror.
The stout woman In white shirtwaist is
| bad enough. But with a black skirt she Is
| a thousand times worse. Let her waist
| and skirt match and mingle together. The
stout woman cannot afford to have di-
vidlng line She should be all in one
| piece II she wants to look taller and thin
ner
THE woman who wants to look taller
| than she is must be careful of the striped
goods. They are all right II gently treated.
| otherwise they deform the figure. The fat
| woman who gets gown with the stripes
running round and round her is an idiot.
And almost as bad is the woman who gets
n gown with vivid stripes running up and
down. The simple truth of the matter is
that the very fat woman should not wear
stripes at all She cannot afford TO wear
them They are not becoming. They cut
her fat In vivid slices and injure the fig
ure irrevocably.
'The stout woman who wants To look
tall and slender should wear very me-
dium hat, OF a nondescript tone and not
at all conspicuous I'm any way. \ red hat
will shorten her, white hat will give
her figure: conspicuous hat viii give
her an odd appearance, as though sn'
were all hat, and big hat Is horrible up
on a short woman. Better 90 wear some
thing not conspicuous and to make .
study OF inconspicuousness. The shor
stout woman almost always gets some
thing that can he both seen and heard {
long way on The gospel OF the ncutra
tint is unknown to her
IL used to dress my short stout womer
In black. but I have stopped. IL makes
them look old and common. | now pu
them In deep tones just off black. and I
Is astonishing how very well they look
They seem to lose weight the minute the,
are hooked In their invisible purples am
their seal browns, I also dress them q
pale tones. but am mighty careful {
make them harmonize.
The stout woman loves to tie pink vel
vet around her throat and she dotes o
letting her hair hang In long knot Y
the back OF her neck. further deformin
her already deformed figure. Stoutnes'
when united 10 shortness, Is certainly
| deformity.
"The stout woman in n mandarin Goa
Is an outrage. A Chinaman. seeing one Z
London. stopped and clapped his hand
with glec. You know they admire "a
women in China. surely she weighs
ton, said he In Chinese. And again