Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-15

came such an absurdity a year Of
so ago, will not do, though many won
en- will doubtless resort to them In {
cheerful belief that they are following
the last dictum of Nine. la Mode. The
truly fashionable coiffure must be care
lessly artistic as to the curls anG
pufrs, yet never untidy. 1t must be
smooth and carefully arranged, but
never stiff.
Use of False Hair.
At its best 1t is unquestionably at
tractive and artistic, but it is doomed
to caricature, as the sparks fly up
ward, and only the most careful
grooming will produce the desired re-
suit
Naturally false hair plays an impor.
tant part in the coiffure of most OF
the fashionables, and ones own hair,
supplemented if necessary by a switch,
Is used for the coil Any extra hair
Is coiled fiat on the crown of the head,
and then false piece composed of
soft curling locks is pinned on, filling
the entire space inside of the coil like
cap. Better results are secured in
this way than by more complicated
use of ones own hair, but some Wom-
en- with ample locks and clever fin
gers or skillful maids fill In the back
OF the couture with soft puffs and
twists of their own hair, and few
finge rcurls bought of the coiffeur.
Individuality today is not only more
sensible, but more smart than freak
ish following of changing fashion, and
the true elegante changes her coiffure
much less frequently and radically
than does the average woman. If only
women generally could be made to
realize that they could achieve
through scrupulous simplicity, impec-
cable neatness and individuality a
smart distinction which they miss al
together by cheap and tawdry exag.
geration of passing modes, what an
enormous improvement would be ef-
fected! A foreign representative Of
one Of the big French silk factories
said not long ago:
Il have never seen so many hand
some women together as | find behind
the counter in any big American shop;
but why do most of them disfigure
themselves by frightful elaborate
coiffures and cheap snowy waists and
neckwear? If French women were as
pretty they would make themselves
acknowledgements, but trim, demure."
The Shortened Waist Line.
All of which is far cry from the
black and white evening frock It has
shortened waist line, and every one
who speaks of things Partisan CON-
ments upon the way In which this
shortened waist has been reasserting
itself among the late summer models
Women like the short waist, find It
becoming Dressmakers say that it
offers opportunities for delightfully."-
artistic effects, and so 1t never really
drops out of sight, though sometimes
1t is confined to evening and house
gown models.
Last winter the waist line was low
cred to normal on large majority of
the frocks, but the short. line still per.
sisted here and there upon both even
ing and daytime frocks, and this sum-
mer one found now and then a coat
with decided directoire lines. Now
there are rumors that the winter will
see a very considerable revival of the
short waist and that the Grecian lines
of the coiffure are to consort with a
renewed vogue of classic lines In
evening dress. 1t is but a rumor
The short skirt which was intro
duced even among the evening frocks
and the most elaborate afternoon
frocks this season owed its vogue very
largely to the introduction of the
bridled skirt, which made long flaming
lines and trains practically an impossi-
bility 1t has run its course with the
exaggerated type of skirt; and with |
the increased fullness of the skirt bot |
toms have come the long flowing folds
and trains which are so vastly becom- |
ing to the average woman that only
slavishs obedience to the makers of |
the modes could induce her TO lay
them aside.
Indeed the best dressed women on |
both sides Of the Atlantic have never
subscribed whole-heartedly to the
short skirt fad where evening and |
house dress was concerned; and while
soft skirt fullness may be slightly held
in by a scarf or some substantial
band on the skirt bottom, It is not
necessary that this combining band
should be so absurdly narrow as to
eliminate all possibility of flowing
round folds on train.
Black Velvet Trimming.
The rage for black velvet trimming
is fairly sure to hold over into the
winter and should be welcome to
women, for 1t makes possible very ef-
fective trimming touches at compar-
atively slight expense and affords op-
portunity for easily freshening old
frocks.
The third Of the black and white
evening frocks would present a little
more difficulty to the average dress
maker than would the other two, for
draperies always demand skllfuI
handling, but is a delightful model for
transparent black over white, with
reveres Of jet and crystal embroidery
on white drops Of Jet and crystal bor-
dering the drapery and a transparent
scarf embroidered in iet and crystal
to throw about the shoulders. A touch