Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-21
Her NEW
SUIT

The only time really wish were
a man" said the girl who likes to talk,
lis when l have to order my new
spring suit! All man has to do Isl
drop in at his tailor's, run through a
few samples, say I'll take that and
saunter out
It's different with girl Way
back in the winter she begins to wor-
ry about that suit. The color both
ers. She decides on blue and every
body shrieks in horror Blue! Why,
you had blue suit last year!
Her brother begins to tell of the
handsome suit he saw on girl down
town made Of black and white checks.
He says she looked perfectly stunning,
and you should have seen her eyes.
Then her sister vetoes the check
because one gets so tired of anything
pronounced. A gray would be good.
Then your best friend comes In
| with sample of lavender homespun
and you long for lavender, though you
know down in the bottom of your
heart that 1t isn't practical, and you'd
have to buy million lavender access
series to go with it, and anyhow, If
you did get it your chum would be
madden than halter.
when you really go to the tailors
you are in very low frame of mind
and the world looks dark. The tailor
Is very glad, indeed, to see you, and
as for samples-ah! when once you
see his sample books you will lose
yourself in wonder and amazement,
because, really, there never were such
samples as he has this spring! You
begin to cheer up while he opens the
books. There are several hundred
samples and surely among all Of
them as
But hold! Isn't there anything but
gray and blue samples in the world?
Have they forgotten how to make any
other color? He assures you positive
ly that nothing will be worn this
spring but gray and blue. Instantly.
you decide that you wouldn't have a
suit of either if it we're given you, and
at the same moment you know what
you want. You want light tan and
you say So
"Artfully the tailor shows you more
gray and blue till you rise in wrath,
and shrek for tan. Then he admits
that maybe you are benighted enough
to desire tan, and reluctantly gets out
some. For some mysterious reason a
tailor always balks at whatever color
you choose. He invariably wants you
to have something else.
After you've decided on an English,
worsted you remember that Alice had
worsted and it wore shiny. That
cuts out worsted. The homespuns
look heavy and the basket weaves
look pully. By this time you have a
tearing headache and go home with
your handbag full of samples and your
heart full of bitterness.
"On the way you meet Genevieve,
and when you tell her where you have
been she says, My dear! Whatever
you do, don't go to that tailor! Why,
he simply ruined my sister-in-law's
suit! And tan will get so soiled!'
Your family likewise elevates it's
eyebrows in pity when you murmur
that tan Is your choice. Each member
infers that of course If you have taken
leave of your senses it is sad but can't
be helped, and each will conceal your
af1iction from the world as long as
possible. AS for a basket weave
horrOrs! Don't you know it will sag
and pull and look horrid before you've
had it week? Mercy on us.
When you retire for the night you
cry yourself to sleep and wish you
could wear potato sack and let it go
at that. You don't care if you never
have suit. su
1.-THE next day whensyou YEARLY say
maybe you'd better get gray, because
1T doesn't matter how you look any.
how if everybody else is satisfied.
your mother asks sreproachfully If
you've forgotten the expensive tan
panama hat she bought you on your
earnest solicitation last year? Don't
you intend to wear it, again this sea-
son, and how, pray tell, can you wear
it with gray suit? Have you no con.
sideration at all for your family?
"Well, you finally order tan suit,
feeling terribly reckless as you do So
There is some trouble over the fact
that your idea of longish coat con.
fiicts with the current mode. The tai.
lor nearly has apoplexy because he
says every coat this spring is short
and jaunty, and the fact that jaunti
ness does not appeal to you as an
ideal state makes no impression on
him.
After battle you win the length
of coat you want. but you also win the
tailor's shifting disapproval. After
several thousand fittings and fights
over pockets or no pockets, Tapped
seams or plain seams, cloth buttons O,
bone buttons, long skirt or short skirt
your suit is finished and sent home
but you are too sick of the sight of II
to open the box, and when you attire
yourself In it you somehow do moi
have that gay and blithsome cheeri
ness which should attend a brand-new
outfit
Still, you look pretty well. A little