Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-01
t6y Barbara Bo.ud

' n u season is at hand for planning a new wardrobe. How shall one
get the best results for the money invested?
Ins Is q problem many a woman is ponderng. The woman
AK ~ pony OF money does not consider it; but the woman whose dress
allowance Is limited, and especially the business girl who must support her
self a a small salary, Ands it a problem that causesth them much study
To get the most for the money in dress, a woman should plan far ahead.
For sh summers dressing she should have done some planning last sum-
mer II III hasn't done this, she should stint herself this summer in order
to arc for 1912. Young girls will not zee the wisdom Of this. But take
II on faith and try II.
Another rule that ls . fundamental one when ne must dress OF a
small allowance Is to 60 In Tor quality and quietness. This will bring an
other disclaimer. Quality costs, it will be argued. So it does, at hBt. But
II b cheapest IN the end. Nor does dressing quietly appeal to some. Many
. young girl believes she looks better in a cheap dress overloaded with cheap
trimming than she does In a frock Of good quality without trimming. But
ID doesn't Someone has apHy said, at is better to look ladyike than to
look stylish, II you can't look BOTH" II you must initiate a fashion in cheap,
tawdy materials, better go In for quiet quality and look we'll bred. You
Will make a moro individual a more distinguished appearance.
Then, too, II a woman has her dresses made, the making is going to
cost the same whether the material is good IT bad. But the dress of cheap
material VIII soo go to pieces; whereas, the one of fine stuff if made on
simple conservative lines, will wear several years and always look we'll.
Blood will tell" in clothes IS well as elsewhere. Good material talors well,
cleans we'll, presses well. 1t always has the air of a arstocrat.
At the end OF a season there are always certain articles OF dress marked
down that Will be useful the next season. At the end Of last summer was
the time to have laid in o fine underchhes, thin stockings, perhaps a
dainty white lingerie dress. Such things can be bought at half price, often
less, at the end Of the season. Thin underwear, a woman needs in summer,
and always a few fine corset covers and peticoats, or combination garments,
and some fine hosiery. No matter how little a girl may be compelled to pay
for these, she will get better value for her money If she will buy at the end
of a season A dainty white dress Is useful in almost any womans sum-
wardrobe, and II she will choose a simple, conservative style, it will
look all right the following season. And such a dress of fine material, simply
trimmed with good lace, will have far more style than ne Of coarse stuff
overloaded with coarse lace and embroidery.
This Is point many a young girl inexperienced in buying clothes has
to learn. Let her try the experiment of getting such a model and wearing it,
and sho will quickly see how much better she looks than do her acquaintance
goUned In cheap, coarse frocks. Such a dress may look very plain to her
in tho shops beside the overturned ones, but let her choose it and wear ii,
and she will quickly see the air of refinement it gives her.
In planning the new seasons wardrobe, then, for truest economy, decide
frst for quality and stick to the decision. And buy with reference to another
season - we'll % to this.