Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

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aisle. all lead to the bonnet box. 1t is his ability to
meet this matter that is to settle his supremacy,
rather than his power to rule burg politically to
the lawn mornings, to be good CitiZenl Il
will, he mutters between his teeth. knowing it
providing, without any contorton of the
features these rainbow ranments that make Her
continuous Transformation scene during the several
functions of day
When He Becomes a Man
A WOMAN is only woman SO sang tting-
L sogged Englishman. forgetting in his phrase
making frenzy that a man is never man until he
has earned the neffabe privilege of dressing
and then walking after her-well out of the Hang
through row of envious bachelors with ossifed liv
and tobacco hearts.
Drape the in honey colored satin with old
pearls in her hair and white orchids over her arm,
and she becomes the invincible beckon the Follow
Me of the ages. the big uncomfortable call that
makes worlds wheel and puts kingdoms on the blink
that brood the tuniCs and the topknos in their
Paris studios gathering motifs from Seine dawnS
and twilghts on the Avenue des AcaciaS could their
French minds be unlayered unlaced, and Invested
of idiOmS-what studies we should have OF subject
we know but vaguely?
There is salon artist in the employ of Ffth-ave.
miner who gets thousands of francs week which
he spends in frequentng the Paris restaurants, the
the theaterS where he observes the departures
the foreShadowings, the down and outs of fashion.
The letters he sends his patron are far too remark
able for print they studies similar to scientists
experiments with tinted rays. doctors common
taries and fascinating disease Cnms-
takably these notes arrange the direction OF the
wind which later on blows on the avenue.
To all these fashion sharps dress is serious, real,
earnest. Good art never be funny. 1t is only
the limitations at which we laugh.-the amateur
trying to pick out symphony on the piano with one
finger. when it means to him only tune that he
could never play in thousand years even if he was
able to use hands and feet in vaudeville fashion.
Necessity of Atmosphere
DRESS must be learned by note well as by
- The crescendos and the diminuendoS must be
marked. The crash by Wagner is tumultuous,-the
knockout of the soul that turks unsupported under
the dul-fnsh shirts and the Helleu breasts while
the same crash by Cohan is merely a loud noise.
Atmosphere is everything in dress.
And line of course: There is nothing inherently
dro about spiral: but when the artist converts it
into the tail of pig the one lonesome spear the
head of bald baby, it at reaches those remote
cells of levity the possession OF which Is derded by
the fat headed.
The Snare has all these qualities: rhythm, color,
Corot mists the shrl note of a coral lining in velvet
cloak the drip of a willow plume from the turn OF
tilted hat the cruel thrust of Jeweed pin through
the heart of
in making their effects. They will always sacrifice
truth for beauty just the sculptOrs make the limbs
of their running nymphs harmony when the run
ming girl is technically about pretty as the troting
horse.
1t the up-reach the starclasp that the artist is
after rather than the properly pointed He gets
in psychic dabs of velvet and wicked glints of cop
perry gold. 1t is the dress, even, that makes the
dancers movements delight. The undraped dance
could never be lovely though it might 60 in the syn
dictate houses We must have at least one OF the
seven wells.
A London dressmaker had bright idea one day,
and decided to name each gown that she designed as
though it was picture London is daffy just
about crystal globes and mysticism. and those moss
green parlors in Hanover Square filled every