Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-10
MADAME SAVARlE ON STYLE
Lectures at Illinois on Fashions in
Women's Dress.

W omen < Dress
Madame Jeanne Savarie lectured
on Paris fashions yesterday after
noon at the Illinois which was pack
cd with an Interested crowd of wo-
men. Madame Savarie blamed the
newspapers for the jokes that are
made of women's fashions. She said
that the newspapers of America give
authentic political news. authentic
financial news and authentic com
mercial news, but when il comes TO
the fashions for women they seem to
think they are altogether a joke.
Also that many admirable fashions,
with everything to commend them,
are killed ny newspaper jokes. In
this connection she spoke of the di-
vided skirt, though she acknowIedg-
ed it was a dead issue. saying that
the skirt as designed in Paris had
everything TO commend il, and was
absolutely free from any objection
able feature, but it was Killed by
newspaper jokes.
In real life Madame Sayarie is
Mrs. Belle Armstrong Whitney. for
merly of New York, but now living
with her husband in Paris, although
she makes eight trips TO America dur
ing the , months of each year. She
is charming. suave. chic and full of
her subject, which she certainly
takes seriously and presents in way
to make even mere man quite agree
that women's fashions are of almost
first importance. not only from the
standpoint of making charming wo-
man herself look like a picture, but
also from AN economic viewpoint
She says live woman, rightly
groomed and rightly gowned-
which means of course wearing the
proper style of gown in the fitting
place for it's a picture far ahead
of any painted picture that was ever
hung on any wall. She also says
there are no freak styles; the styles
called freakish are wrong adapta-
tions of something admirably good in
the right place.
Madame Savarie wore an exquisite
Partisan gown of yellow satin yelled
with the thinnest of black lace, made
with a tunic effect and trimmed with
gold fringe. She wore a large black
hat trimmed with yellow aigrettes.
Her skirt was slim as well as her fig
ure. In speaking about the revolu-
tion in styles whick Is from time to
time limited at. she said that the close
style would still be the thing for the
coming season: that tailored suits
sometimes have hidden plat in the
skirt. but that house and dress gowns
all of the sOftest and most supple
stuffs-were still close The recent
scare. when fashion letters from
Paris announced the coming of the
crinOline. came from a couple Of lit
tie house gowns shown by one Paris
house, when the soft, clinging foun-
dation skirt was topped by a half
length tunic of airy chiffon, this tu-
mic being held out at the lower edge
with two hoops run in, making alb
solutely fascinating gowns for the
purpose for which they were created.
but in no wise heralding the return
of the detestable hoop-skirt
The narrow skirt. when not alb
surdly narrow. is the best and most
fitting for general wear. Ii is easier
to walk in, makes a woman look
more trim and does not take up the
mud and dirt. II is no more artistic
for A woman 70 he swathed in IN
necessary yards of stuff than If is
sanitary and the foundations are as
narrow as ever. Afternoon and even
ing gowns often have draperies but
the general outlines of slendeTnass
are not disturbed great number
Of gowns were shown 10 splendid
by three living models
and the best points OF each gown or
coat was pointed out and explained .
Madame Savarie lectured under the
Of Young & McCombs' de
pa-tment store