Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-02-25
Partisan Designers win Model
Nothing That Does Not
Convey That Effect.
MAKE REMARKABLE SUCCESS
Straight, Slim Lines Are Followed In
Every Garment and the Result
Must Be Acknowledged to Be
Harmonious and Graceful
in the Extreme.

that the great dress designers Of
Paris WOO and cultivate when fash
ioning their respective models. Gowns
must not only make the wearer look
young when she is young, but more
than that, they must perform the
miracle of restoring youth many years
after that elusive and keenly desired
attribute has apparently departed for
ever. And this is really no easy mat
ter to accomplish, for if he designer
be not genius. perfected in his art.
his patron, frankly miGdle-aged. or
approaching the shady side of forty,
will appear ludicrous and pathetic in
the garments of sweet sixteen, or, at
the most. of stationary twenty.
The straight. slim lines that are
essentially characteristic of Paris
modes are avowedly trying to the
woman with pronounced curves; but
the gifted dressmakers of the French
capital have evolved from girlish mod
els effects that are highly artistic and
at the same time quite appropriate
for the woman who would be in the
fashion and yet not suggest a carica-
ture of her younger and simmer sis
ter. In this the dressmakers have
been greatly aided by the corsetieres
and the makers of lingerie, who have
been engaged from season to season
in developing stays and underwear in
strict accord with the figure require
ments of outer fashions. All women
have been benefited thereby, but the
woman who no longer cares to cele-
brate the recurrence of her natal day
is the one who has derived the great
est fashion good from the harmony
that prevails among the dressmakers,
corsetieres and lingerie designers of
Paris.
Naturally, the Parisienne has alb
sorbed the secret of youthful dressing,
and she it is who is it's best expo
nent. After her, by common consent,
comes the American woman. The for
mer is extremely careful about the
colors she selects for her various gar
ments, and If she has the slightest
doubt about the becomingness of any
shade or tone, she promptly eschews
it and falls back on her favorite black
relying for distinction on the abso-
lutely perfect lignes of her toilette,
whether the latter be for morning,
afternoon or evening wear. And this
is not characteristic Of any age or
type. 1t is Partisan, and it is exceed
ingly helpful to the woman who would
retain a fair and reasonable sem
blance of youth.
Go where one will among the cou-
turiers, and always in showing a
model each will invariably say, 1T is
a youthful gown, is it not, madam ?"
or 1--WE make only youthful models
here" Verify, this is the age of
woman, and. more particularly, the
youthful woman. Recently while
talking with NJ Wingrove, of the mai
son Marthe WingroYe, that gentleman
advanced the theory that the Paris
women retain their youth longer than
those of other nationalities, merely
because they take a perennial and
TO them" said M. Wingrove. repre-
sent both art and science, something
more, in fact, than the mere frivoli-
ties of fashion with which feminine
babiliments are associated in other
countries" And to illustrate his re-
mark the gentleman contrasted the
dress of the average English woman
with that of the average French wom-
an. Said he, AT forty the English
matron is done with fashionable raj
ment and all that pertains thereto.
She puts on a white cap and stuff
dress and resigns herself to growing
old, if not gracefully, at least soberly.
To her grown daughters she relegates
the youthful privilege Of selecting be-
coming colors and stylishly cut gar
ments. She acknowledges she is al
ready old, and children and friends
alike accept the statement compla-
Gently, because they have become &C.
customed to such avowals and see no
reason why things should be other.
wise. On the contrary, here in Paris,
a woman is never older than her
clothes or, in other words, she is al
ways as young as her frock"
At Wingrove's some exquisite dress
es, breathing the very essence of
youth, were offered for the inspection
and admiration of the visitor. Deli
cious pinks and blues are favored for
taffeta frocks, and the pannier in its
new and piquant guise is a salient
feature. This house continues TO
show the 9cmi-decollete neck for
street gowns; and the skirt, with the
back hung little shorter than the
front. is likewise advanced for re-
newed favor. In connection with that
type of skirt, the interesting inforrna-
ton was forthcoming that it happened
one day a mannequin put one OF the
new skirts on hind-side before and
that the new drapery movement thus
revealed was Immediately incorporat-
ed in a model which madame wore at
the Sunday Auteuil races. where she
created something Of sensation.
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Why They Hsrry.
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