New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-26
TO SUIT YOUR SOUL
Teachers College Filters Twice
at Partisan New Thought.

Dress 10 suit your SOUL
This Is the latest mandate from costume
experts I'm Paris and II comes to New YORK
by way Of Miss Katherine Groth. who
talked about II at Teachers College yester-
day afternoon.
II is no longer sufficient. II seems TO
dress becomingly 10 match ones eyes. or
the "glint Of bronze In ones hair" or ones
Grecian profile. Miss Groth had pa
thetic tale to tell about breezy West
ern girl
she came TO an afternoon tea In PARIS
she said. She was large and beautiful
and she wore q perfectly stunning Paris
hat one that proclaimed itself Paris IN
every aubte curve and every coquettish
little rosebud
"'Oh. isn't that wonderful hat" cried
and the great artist TO whom 7 spoke an
ivered an unenthusiastic Yes.
And isn't 1t wonderfully becoming?
cried I again.
Then the artist asserted himself
us becoming to her physically bur
it's horribly unbecoming to her mentally
10 said. a breezy. frank, clear-souied
girl like that has no business wearing al
insidious looking hat
80 you see" continued Miss Groth. ~
is a much more difficult task to dress
wisely than people know who have never
given much thought to the matter
She herself has given it great deal. Al.
,hough she has had An M \. from Column
Liza and is a candidate for Phi. r. at the
Sorbonne. she has also studied costumes
in great Paris dressmaking establishments
.~N.
The criticism Of course. that all
French people make Of Americans is that
they all dress alike.
Look az those Americans there said
the Frenchman at the restaurant IN the
story-'the same cut of gown and the same
way Of doing their hair Why. If there
should be fire their fathers and husbands
couldn't tell which woman was which in
the excitement. end would probably rescue
The wrong one
Then, another thing I learned In Paris
was that clothes must be designed TO
smooth out difficult situations by their
tactfulness. That means more than that
you mustn't wear bright colors at a fu-
neral When YOU go to visit dear old
lady you mustn't wear harem skirt. be-
cause that would shocl, her so. but when
You visit an invalid who has not seen the
gay world for months. try to wear your
freshest newest clothes. and tell her all
about the styles. You must always dress
so az to he in harmony with your COM
panions."
Here Teachers College Uttered. II had
been heard before, but here the situation
became too much for its sense OF humor.
1t was o'clock and Teachers College was
hot and sticky: II had been working hard
since early morn. every shrtwaist was
rnussy and every head looked tired And
the lecturer continued 10 chatter amiably
about "tactfulnoss in clothes" while her
flowing silk gown and huge white hat set
OFF most effectively her own immaculate
black curls and fresh. dimped face.
Teachers College Uttered twice. then set
tied back to listen TO another story from
another famous costumer
Women can never dress themselves
we'll" said he. because they haven't
sound. logical minds 10 reason out the prob
lens. and they don't know anything about
architecture. so how can they build mp
gowns on good lines? That's why the great
costumers are all men