The sun., 1908-05-10

days wearing garb suited TO the weather
-rain coats, overshoes and hats without
feathers. dark gloves and skirts. They
manage 10 utilize their second best clothes
when the weather is bad But the New
York woman apparently never has any
second best. and what she does with her
worn garments is a mystery
Everything that is not perfectly fresh
and shining and smart is now described
as shabby and is not permissible even in
the worst weather
The dressy woman will often have her
own pet economies to make up for her extra
vagance in dress She will cut down on her
food or she will live in small back room
somewhere, but she will have silk stock
ings and patent leather pumps that cost
her S. or SO and she will wear them through
mud and slush that ruin them in one after
noon.
II she put on an old pair Of shoes she
would fancy that she looked dowdy and
would probably be talked about, 80 she keeps
10 the same style in all wPathers and will
not spend money for a cab. which would
save her things from the rain and the muddy
streets.
Another pet economy with some women
lie the cheap tailor. They discover him
in some Fast Side tenement and travel
miles for fittings in III ventilated, dirty
rooms,
He makes a gown for only little less than
a good tailor would charge. But II Ia a
distinct saving in cash at all events, and
the time spent in travelling back and forth
10 the mans place Is not considered by
the thrifty girl who, on the other hand,
will only wear hosiery that costs a dollar
and half pair. A man will wear thirty
cent socks, but he will 60 10 the best tailor
he can find nearest TO his home or his place
OF business.
Another feminine extravaganza which
poses as a thrift is the shirt waist that 30
many business women affect as an almost
constant uniform. Yet they only wear il
once or twice at the most, when II goes to
the laundry, where a quarter Of a dollar
is charged FOR doing il up.
The woman therefore who sticks TO shirt
waists as an economy could really dress
In silk all the year round for less money.
The ahirt waist is fresh and clean and dainty,
but II is very expensive wear. From the
time il is madc or bought in the shop IL
leads a costly existence, and by the time
IL 10 NOIn Out IL IepIooonVe a BVOuiy dinouuJ
Of money.
The laundry prices for doing it up are
Of course exorbitant, but laundry prices
keep high the world over in the face Of
panics and hard times, womens clothing
being charged for out Of all proportion TO
men's garments,
A great many women never spend money
In a restaurant, although they enjoy res
taurant fare and never lose a chance TO
lunch or dine when an invitation comes
along.
Then they invariably order the most
expensive items they can find and about
four times as much as they could possibly
eat. They will allow absolute strangers
who may happen to know some one in their
party 10 pay for their food.
When one OF these women accompanies
another woman into restaurant she set
ties the matter Of the bill at the start by
declaring that she cannot possibly eat any
thing, as she has just had lunch, &c. This
shifts the matter at once 10 the shoulders
Of the other woman, after which the one
who is not hungry proceeds TO eat like a
cormorAnt THIS is another of the dis