Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-12
The Business Toilette Simplicity the Keynote White
Coat Suits for Semi -Dressy Wear Shirtwaists and
Lingerie Blouses Shoes, Gloves. Wells Cha
paux and Other Accessories Necessary
To FEMININE Comfort.
To FEMININE Comfort.

Trimness Of garb is the waterford of
the up-to-date business woman. Shs real
lies that a wrinkled suit, shabby shoes
and faded hat trimmings are sometimes
as fatal handlcaps in the race for success
as an imperfect education, timid man
ner or the lack of influential friends.
Therefore, the girl who has determined to
get ahead In business spares neither time
nor labor upon her wardrobe. and no mat
ter how limited her income always fares
forth with her well-worn tailored suit
perfectly pressed, her shoes brightly pol
ished and her gloves guiltless of rips and
soil.
Have Several Tailored Suits,
Severely tailored coat and skirt suits
seem to have been especially designed for
the benefit of the business woman. In
order to always look smart there should
be several Of these on hand, as they need
to be quite as regularly renovated as the
clothes of the average business man. I'm
less a woman can afford to buy rather
expensive suit and is not in mourning
black is not advisable. Far better to Sc
lect some dark shade of blue. gray or
brown In shadow striped, checked or plain
mohair. These do not show the dust. are
exceedingly light in weight and may be
comfortably worn from April to Novem-
her In a temperate climate. They are
made up into half-ftting, hip-length coats
and ulsited skirts and may be relieved
bv white or colored embroidered linen col
lar and cuff sets, which launder readily
and are inexpensive.
Extra skirts Convenient.
Aa the skirt necessarily gets so much
more wear than does the coat business
women who have their tailored suits MADE
to order usually have two skirts LOT one
coat. If this plan Ia not feasible, how
ever, the present fashion Of wearing
striped or checked skirt with plain jack
et may be adopted, for 1t Is usually posi-
Bile to find such materials of a correspond
ing shade. This Is also a good rule TO foi-
low ia regard to the linen tailored suits,
which are the more comfortable type OF
feminine tailored garb for torrid weather.
These should not be white, but rather
of some medium shade of blue, green or
/. brown, such colors having a pleasing rae
ulty Of not showing soil.
Linens simply Made.
Nevertheless, as expert laundry work is
expensive, the linen suits should be made
as simply as possible and be distinguished
rather for the beauty of their lines than
for the amount of their trimming. suit
of this character which is immensely
smart and calculated to make a laundress
shudder has short circular skirt finished
with a Deep heavily stitched hem and
severely cut Elton coat, bordered with two
rows of self-colored cotton soutache. The
Jacket stops Just above the attached linen
belt of the skirt, has full-length coat
sleeves with wide turnback cuffs, and its
fronts are finished with pointed turnback
revers If an Elton coat is not becoming,
either the smoker or Prince Chap jacket
will look smart, but 1t is we'll to have a
linen wrap of this character rather short,