The Washington times., 1914-03-02
costumes Worn Here Today
Will Be Worn in Paris To-
morrow-Most Daring Nov
elites Not Known at Home"
She Says.
"American Woman. Beautiful
and Chic. Is Built Like a
Goddess. With Long Lines
and Erect Dominant Car
riage."
BY MARGUERITE MOOERS
MARSHALL.

American women set the fashion
for the women of Paris.
No longer do the wealthiest of
Uncle Sans daughters turn them
selves out in painstaking imitation
of the Partisan mannikins. On the
contrary. the feminine contingent
of the erstwhile Capital of Fashion
seeks anNiously TO know what is
being worn in American centers Of
fashion. The most daring modes
are first TO be seen on the women
here. and are adopted by Parisians
some time later. if at all /
A French woman has made this
distinctly piquant discovery She is
Nine. Leone Georges-Reboux. wife
of Paul Reboux. playwright, nov
elist and literary editor of the Paris
Journal. Mime. Reboux is herself
well known as painter on ivory
and porcelain. Also. according to
her husband. she is the most beau
tiful woman in the world. Il have
Travelled all over the world he
said. and nowhere have seen a
woman more beautiful than she"
NcoiiS oCdQlll VI " OLldu.
Nor do / think that NJ. Rebeux.s
remark should be dismissed as
a honeymoon rhapsody. Nine.
Georges-RebouX is really a very
lovely little person. She has a figure
which is at once slender and
rounded. and her hands and feet are
eXquisitely modelled Her gold
brown hair is wreathed about her
small head, and one or two locks
fall childishly over her forehead.
She has big brown eyes set under
arching brows, a smooth olive skin,
and a mouth of which the color
bellies the demure expression. Her
face. wide and almost square at the
forehead, curves to round. softly
modelled chin-almost exactly the
facial contour of an expensive
French doll. But there is nothing
doH-Eke in the quick interplay be
tween mouth and eyes. which makes
half her charm.
AS an artist and as a beautiful
woman" put il 70 her frankly,
when ] called on her. how does
n" American woman impress you?"
The American woman is beautiful
and she IS chic. replied Nine.
Georges R.bOvN. But both in her
beauty and in her chicness she differs
from the wuntan Of my country"
And IhtH came the innocent bomb
ST ell remark. said madame calmly:
"The costumes of American
women are made differently from
the costumes of French women,
hut that does not mean that the
women of your city arc behind the
style Ii means that they are ahead
Of the style. The costumes that
arc worn today will he worn In
Paris tomorrow. The most daring
novelties I have seen here are NOT
yet known at home.
Courage In Dress.
In Dress you have courage You
carry off the daring sign with A
grand air. Fer an example. hear
that YOUR women are beginning to
wear cOlored hair in tn hotels and
or the streets. In Paris they hav.
never worn the blue and green wigs
except at masked halls. You lead
the wav. even in this"
iSNI tillS IL Il DeflfCtiE new lew
Loint, ! interviewed. Most OF us
have supposed that the pronounced
hartorial designs came straight from
Paris. and that the most pronounced
oues-stayed there"
Madames lead. eyes ard lips
spoke a vigorous denial.
Il think" she said. that the ef-
feet Of elegance which the American
wUmam gives is partly due to her
phvsical attributes.
''Dne of the first things which
Impressed me about the woman
here wss her superior height. She
fs built on the proportions of "a
goddess, wit her long lines and
her erect. dominant carriage. Her
mead IL large, and are her fea-
lures. Her forehead and mouth
are wide. her nose long, her chin
Everything is in har-
nony. and 80 the effect is beauti-
fuI. Hut the beauty in conspic-
ueus, commanding, and the sdorn-
ment Of such beauty must neces-
sHrily make one open ones eyes.
The French woman is an alto
gether different type. She is short
and slight. with slim, small hands
and feet and tiny. carefully finished
features. She has not the grand
manner, because she knows that il
docs not belong with her physical
appearance. She attracts by being
DAINTY, fragile, beguiling, what you