The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-14

vATHAT a blessing is the ostensibly grey lenten season, supposedly w provided for us to retire into
 our innermost sanctuaries and contemplate our transgressions and the most likely way to remedy them But alas how many of us do? I fear. judging from the inn macuiate and carefully thought out toilettes displayed in the epoch making Easter parade, that not 8 few of us have indeed repaired to the innermost sanctuary and then remained the en- tire time deeply submerged in brain r&cking thought, choosing materials, textures, color tones and combinations, for the first and really most incense Quent dress parade of the year. Who ever thinks after Monday what ones most hated rival wore on Sunday, for, from Easter until the first chill days of autumn one quite looses track of friends and enemies alike in the grad ual cessa ton of all social and public functions. giving way to the absorbing preparation of summer gowns, dancing frockE and outing clothes. But now for the one all absorbing and tremen- dous topic of an Easter triumph.
 First to be considered is the general line to be utilized. In other words, will the gown be clinging, draped or merely ciose fitting or very full? Will the sil- houtIe be long and wrath like, chic and coy merely tube? With this
 
 one may then go jubilantly forth to select materials, for this choice de- bends entirely on the type of gown to be built. Next comes the considera- ton of eeior. which is more easily de- sided aftef. on esfeaches the.ittle lighted studio 50 ingeniously contrived for the one purpose. with perfect daylight for the viewing of materials to be used In gowns for day wear and with every kind of artificial light for getting the L 1rsx l- r,f frht r,v, materials used for evening gowns. no matter what the function or the light reculiar for it.
 Dressing fig after all becoming one Of the highest of the arts as is manifested by the number of painters and artists. especially abroad. who are interesting themselves in the artful clothing of women regardless of fashion predic- ton. Tn fact they are slowly but surely dominating fashion, for the best dressed women of the world now con suit not the fashionable dressmaker of bygone days. but the great artist, dressmakers who sit quietly conversing with one on every topic of music, art and drama, exercising their keen French wit and in a few moments an- nouncing in a most business like way that such and such type of gown is absolutely the proper thing for you. And this they have cleverly discovered in . few brief moments of conversation Tn anything ana everything save SuD- jects pertaining to dress.
 As the brilliant Madame Cheruit, one Of the greatest of these individual dress artists, has explained, the real art in dressing is to discover ones best lines and then to clothe ones self in the manner most suited to idealize those lines and obliterate to the greatest pos- sible extent ones lack of beauty ot figure Such an achievement is not to be accomplished by consulting a set. hard and fast rule laid down by de- signers bent on promoting new style that will cause the complete discarding of all ones frocks and compelling one to patronize the shops and dressmakers in order not to appear conspicuous.
 Fortunately the recent upheaval in the corset world has resulted in estab- fishing a more normal form than has ever been advocated in corsets and establishing an almost normal waist line The result has been so comfort able and at the same time so univers- ally becoming that there is every pos sibility of its not only remaining but beirE improved upon. Then what revolution will have been accomplished in woman's dress. Even those who are incapable of appreciating the artistic value of it have adopted it merely be- cause it Is pretty. and thus the eccen- trio and conspicuous dresser is fast be- coming thing of the spectacular past.