The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
EVENING Chat
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

There is certain reform which I
should very much like to see some fash
ION magazine take up. I call for it as
Spokesman of many similarly minded
folks We would like to see at least one
fashion magazine Danish the ranks of de-
celtfully beautiful ladies who now adorn
thelr pages, and fill their places with
Just ordinary folks. Then perhaps we
might get a notion how all these gowns
would really look on us-the common
people.
Of course you have noticed how beauti-
ful all these ladies are. They always
nave wonderful figures, fascinating wavy
ha1r, and charming oval faces and such
style! meal bag draped on any one
OF tnem would look attractive. Conse-
quently, If you are not a very discriminat-
ing person, and do not Thoroughly under
stand the subject of clothes, you are in
Danger or being seriously ensnared by
chese charming deceivers, and of confus-
ing their gowns with themselves.
FOR instance, you see sweet little LADY
IN crisp blue and white morning gown
a pink rose thrust in her belt and one on
each cheek, her hair in a soft mon at
the nape of her neck with little ringIets
escaping here and there: she is pictIIred
as sitting in a comfortable veranda char
with book in her lap and box OF
candy on the wicker table beside her En-
chanted by the tout ensemble of the pic
ture the crispness, the freshness. the
summer-morning- ness of the whole thing
you decide that you must have a blue
and white morning gown like that and
when your dressmaker has the gown cut
that you begin to realize that the lovely
lines which the svelt lady of the rose dis
played belonged to her and not to the
gown, and that there is altogether too
much fullness in the model for your al
ready redundant figure-in short that you
nave been grossly deceived by a pretty
face and clever artist
we were looking at magnificently
dressed young person on the cover of one
OF the recent fashion magazines. what
a lovely gown some one said And then,
what made the gown so pretty, two of us
actually chanted together, as they do on
the stage, at isn't the gown It's the
dimple in the lady's elbow And 1t was
Another fashion magazine is very fond
Of pointing out that it is bad taste for US
TO which we are prone. How much more
attractive, we are assured, it would be
for us all to do our hair in the simple
styles. The magazine then gives pictures
of the ways in which hair can be simply
dressed and still be becoming And or
course, all the ladies who display their
cothureS to US are the possessors of per-
fectly regular features which could stand
the most severe styles of coifng, and are
furthermore blessed with masses of lux
uriantly curling hair which would look
well if wound up and fastened with three
hair pins.
We don't ask for homely ladies in the
fashion magazines. We are not that our
selves, or at least we don't think so
What we want is some common ordinary
folks just like us, with figure deficiencies
to conceal and with faces such as you
might see on the street. Maybe we
wouldn't like them If we got them. It is |
said that's a characteristic of our sex
but 1t might pay some fashion magazine |
to try.