The sun., 1909-02-14

ite taupe gown, In the window We founf
that she looked uncomfortable.
Get a hat said TO an assistant.
$50 the hat was brought. But now th'
srGSS,s ioSsiy rsSy sSSys. osa SiS tSans isSsSs,
and some very handsome color effects
In flowers and straw; but the waxer
LADY, evidently did not approve. Do
what te might. she. simply would not
look pretty. More than that. she would
not even look nioe.
what "a the matter with the. hati'
| our dilemma, had come In.
at makes her look too old. said he.
Just give her q mushroom and see what
sNo sooner said than done. We whisked
on the rakish little toque and olapped a
mushroom upon the lady's head. The
Tbs ffs', vss " iady bent slightly forward In
her eaeerness to look her best; her ohm
seemed 10 lift q little In order to throw
dignity into her faoe. and from under
that mushroom hat brim her eyes shone
dark and starlike. :,
Il looked at that lovely big white chip
hat with its facing Of black and its lovely
trailing feather and blesSed the day the
call it what you will. II Its crown is
big and the brim turns down a little around
the face il Is going to make the middle
Il wonder Il middle aged women. or
Young women, reali % that the wax figure
ls placed In the window to show women
how to be graceful. The artist viii tel
window display. The remainder Is the
wearing OF them gracefully. :,
The lay figure Carries herself well.
Her arms are graciously disposed. She
never swings them, nor does she carry
them hanging down at her sides with a
big dangling handbag.
fThe woman who treads along the
pavements with her arms swinging and
q hand satchel hanging from the fingers
of ono hand, as though she were tourist
carving a grip, will get some idea OF how
TO carry her arms and her handbag by
studying the wax ladies In the windows
and their graoefulness OF arm. .
I'VE had an instance not long, ago OF
actual incongruity Of dress and OF its
may say that these figures are inanimate
and that they do not have feelings. but
we know better.
sThis lay figure had been wearing an
evening gown, an operatic creation, and
that morning we had hastily removed her
opera dress and had put a negligee on
her. A lovely negligee 1t was, all fine
Then we stepped outside to get view
of our work To our surprise and
grief the wax figure did not look right.
There was an ashamed look upon her
oountenance., a look as II she. were
improperly clothed,
HThat wax figure Is too proud for any
thing said one Of the window dressers.
Don't YOU remember how she sdted last
night until we put a tiara on herr
sNThat a the trouble now almost shouted
another aseistant. She's still got her
tiara upon her head. and she knows it
isn't suitable for morning
"In our absorption we had not noticed
the tiara and It took the wax figure herself
to remind us OF II.
Women of taste will not wear jewels
nor stiff ribbon bows in their hair In the
morning unlees the bows are OF actual
use in the hair dressing A pendant braid
can be tied with a bow or the hair can
be tied girllike upon the crown OF the
head but the ribbon ornament, wired
and stiffened and perched In the hair
simply for ornament, has no place in
the morning hairdressing OF the per-
fectly well ordered woman. Even the
wax figure Indignantly resents IL:
we have lots Of trouble with wax
figures that don't want to have their
ears covered up. Few women. you know.
look well with the nalT uTdpcu oHei tue
ears, but we seldom or never have a
figure that does not enjoy wearing a
veil. We try to give the blond ladies'
their suitable ooloring and we are careful
never TO offend the dark comple1ioned
ones with their unwearable colors.
I'VE find that our ladies look best in
one color toneswhich runs through boots,
gown, hat, gloves and bag. Yes. and
through handbag, chains and hair orna-
ments and all the small things OF dress
down TO hatpins and stickpins. There
must be variety. Of course. but some
color resemblance, too.
Our worst color difficulty comes when
we try TO dress a brunette in navy blue
throughout. We give her a navy blue
gown, a navy blue hat, a jacket OF navy
blue and maybe a dyed navy blue bag.
Then we take a look at her and groan.
She is commonplace. II we inject
some tan or ecru into the picture We get
results, and l believe that this is true
in real life.
women would look better II they
would study the wax figures that smile
at them 80 encouragingly. Pick out
your type and take a daily lesson In
dress. is what we say to the woman who
wants to be beautiful