The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-12

The American woman is famous the
world over for the smartness of her
street attire. In her well-cut tailor
dress and becoming walking hat she
excels more completely than, in any
other costume. Good taste is the prac-
teal rule in every detail of her COS
tune, from her simple thread veil to
her pretty laced boots, and even her
Partisan sister has much to learn ere
she can surpass in this field and way.
And already the American girl is COM
mencing to be heard from in this field,
and mothers of other countries are al
ready initiating the severely simple
yet essential smart outdoor dress of
the American school girl.
There are, of course, many essentials
besides the actual clothes themselves
which must be considered if one would
look Der best in street dress. The
walk and the poise when standing are
of tremendous Importance, and an
erect carriage of the head is obligatory
to carry off well plain coat and skirt
costume. A certain trimness and very
severe neatness, especially with the
hat and the arrangement of the veil,
are all important characteristics of the
tailor-made girl. Needless to state,
the figure must be good, but long slen-
der lines are almost universal charac-
teristics of the present generation of
American school girls, while the i'm
portance of good corsets is now almost
as well understood in this country as
an Paris, where even the poorest little
dressmaker's apprentice is remarkable
for her trim, prettily -corseted figure,
and. in consequence, the extraordi-
narily good fit of her homemade
frock To look well, therefore, in a
tailor costume is not the accomplish
sment of day, but rather the result
of long training. No SO 1ner are the
little wash dresses laid aside for school
wear than future years must be
thought of, stays must be donned and
a pretty cloth street costume of coat
and skirt worn. Care must be taken
to find a hat that is suitable with the
dress. the hair must be neatly tied
back and the ribbon always trinity
knotted.
Until true stays are worn a girl
should not put on a severe style of
tailor suit, but should keep to the
suspander and strap dresses or any
simple model of dress throughout, to
be worn beneath long half fitted coat
or ulster. A white waist or even a
silk bodice with a separate skirt is
never pretty if there is no foundation
to keep the waist down snugly in back
and on the sides and the skirt from
slipping out of place. None of the
tailor models is really tight fitting this
year, so that pretty much the same
style of street dress is worn by school
girls and grownups alike. All side
CORES and elaboration on the coat are,
of course, to be avoided for young girls,
and the very long jackets are a mis-
take, but by this last is not meant the
separate coats or ulsters reaching near
Iy to the hem of the dress, which are
seen in all the smartest outfits for
quite young girls.
Now that plated skirts are again in
vogue, strict attention must be afford
ed the underskirt, for upon its flare
and hang depend much of the effect
of the entire costume. For city wear
q silk petticoat is infinitely preferable
to a white wash skirt, which can never
retain its freshness and starch for
more than few hours at most. The
advantage in black silk skirt is, of