The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-09-07


fearful things then"
I got off, the car at my corner and all
the way home the phrase, Cheap
Finery," kept ringing in my ears.
For Belle, with her imitation pearl
necklace, is a type of the girl with little
money who gets NOTHING in return for
what she spends.
things, because they think they can afford
the BEST.
l know a girl who is the wisest person
in the expenditure of money that I've ever
seen, and yet she never buys second
rate article.
II can't afford to get anything but the
best" she tells me. ''You see, / have so
little to spend that what I buy must be
worth what / pay for it. l find that only
the best is worth having sent home"
You'd be surprised to know how seldom
she goes shopping.
When she does go, it Is to the best
shops, and she always knows what she
wants and she never by any chance gets
other things than those she started out
to buy.
She doesn't wear lace. because she can't
afford to wear REAL lace; for the same
reason she eschews all jewelry.
But
She DOES wear good clothes of good
the best dressmakers.
She doesn't wear jeweled slippers and
sleazy satins with long trains, that keeE
coming into the room long after she's
entered. but her tub clothes are always
dainty and of the best quality, that car
be Numbered often and ARE.
Her shoes are always beyond reproacf
and she buys them from the very best
bootmakers and pays a good price, but II
pays her to do it. in the long run.
No "yiller" plumes for her. IL you
please; instead she buys simple bon
ut that is in perfect taste. and the con-
sequence is she appears we'll dressed and
perfectly groomed
To watch her method and what she
buys. forces you to the conclusion that
she is wise in the disposition of her
money.
Cheap Fineryi"
A working girl can't afford to buy any
thing but the simple, plain, good materials
and shoes and hats.
Pretty Ethel Barrymore used to make
her own clothes when she first began tc
make her own living
When she was only a girl in her teens
she could design a gown quite as success
fully as the smartest modiste whom she
now patronizes.
w nat sne mas TO say on the SUBJECT OF
girls economizing in clothes may appea
to other girls who wish to make wise
expenditure of their dollars.
know it appeals to me decidedly
|, II found" said the pretty actress II
a story written Of her long ago, that the
best scheme is to select certain color
for my very own and stick to It as O
foundation. I wear blues in every colo,
and shade. Blue is becoming to me and
1t is very genteel All my street gowns
are of dark navy blue. A good dark blue
serge tailor frock Is my first Investment
each season. made by a good tailor. My
shirtwaists I get to match it. An extra
dark blue skirt would pick up at sale
maybe. Ny hats always harmonic witt
my tailor frock. would take this eowr
for second best suit the next winter
and the new tailor made would be my
Sunday best. II I had reception gown
it would be of dark blue wolfe or yelling
and wrap of some black material
would use for both day and evening wear
In this way. by adding a skirt here ant
a shrtwaist there and an occasional new
| gown. I soon had a very complete ward
robe for poor working girl Few people
| could tell my new clothes from my oil
| ones. however, because they were al
shades Of blue. Always blue, with every.
thing to harmonize and then ] never ap
| peared conspicuous or tacky. In this way
on a small salary learned the wisdom O.
| managing and I always felt as wei
dressed as many women meet who spent
l.fortunes on their clothes each year"