The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-19
HER NEW
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few samples. say TIL take that and
eaunter out
IT'S different with a girl. Way
back in the winter she begins to wor-
~ about that suit. The color both
ers. She decides on blue and every
body shrieks in horror. Blue! Why,
you had a blue suit last year!
"Her brother begins to tell of the
handsome suit he saw on a 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 n gets 80 tired of anything
pronounced. A gray would be good.
Then your best friend comes in
with a 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 a million lavender access
sories to go with 1t, and anyhow, If
you did get it your chum would be
madder than a halter: :
when you really go to the tailor's
you are In q very low frame of mind
and the world looks dark. The tailor
is very glad, indeed, to see you, and
las for samples-ah! when once you
tsee 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
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
lly 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 were given you, and
at the same moment you know what
you want. You want a light tan and
you say so.
"Artfullys 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
q worsted and 1t 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 its
eyebrows in pity when you murmur
that tan is your choice. Each member
infers that O fcourse If you have taken
leave OF your nse 1t is sad but can't
be helped, and each will conceal your
amictton from the world as long as
possible. As for a basket weave
horrors! Don't you know it will a
and pull and look horrid before you've.
had it a week? Mercy on u.s.
When you retire for the night you,
cry yourself to sleep and wish you
could wear a potato sack and let it go
at that. You don't care If you never
have q suit.
The next day when you YEARLY say
maybe you'd better get gray, because
It doesn't matter how you look any
how II everybody else is satisfied,
your mother asks reproachfully 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,
II with q gray suit? Have you 40 con-
alteration at all for your family?
well, you finally order a tan suit,
feeling terribly reckless as you do 80.
There is some trouble oyer the fact
that your idea Of a longish coat con-
diots 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 a 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 pochsts or no pockets, Tapped
seams or plain seams. cloth buttons or
bone buttons. long skirt or short skirt,
your suit is finished and sent home,
but you are too sick of the sight Of 1t
to open the box, and when you attire
yourself in it you somehow do not
have that gay and blithsome cheeri.
ness which should attend a brand-new
outfit.
"still, you look pretty well. A little
bird 10 beginning to sing some.
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