Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-02-21
parlsian Designers viii Model
Nothing That Does Not
Convey That Effect.
MtKE REMARKABLE SUCCESS
e.raloht. Slim Lines Are Followed In
Every Garment and the Result
Must Be Acknowledged TO Be
Harmonious and Graceful
In the Extreme.


ppr,s WOO and cultivate when fash
ioping their respective models. Gowns
mai not only make the wearer look
xoung when she is young, but more
fhan that, they must perform the
MIRACLE of restoring youth many years
kfter that elusive and keenly desired
aftribute has apparently departed for
eser. And this is really no easy mat
ser to accomplish, for If the designer
be not a genius, perfected in his art,
bic patron. frankly middle-aged, or
approaching the shady side of forty,
nil appear ludicrous and pathetic in
ne garments of sweet sixteen, or, at
he most of stationary twenty.
The straight, slim lines that are
Essentially characteristic of Paris
modes are avowedly trying to the
goman with pronounced curves; but
he gifted dressmakers of the French
capital have evolved from girlish mod
lis effects that are highly artistic and
hi the same time quite appropriate
Tor the woman who would be in the
fashion and yet not suggest a carica-
lure of ner 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
BIS the one who has derived the great
est fashion good from the harmony
that prevails among the dressmakers,
scorsetieres and lingerie designers OF
Paris.
Naturally, the Parisienne has alb
sorbed the secret of youthful dressing,
and she it is who is its 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
fngly 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
oil orfn ~ .4T%
youthful gown, is it not madam"
or 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 Wingrove, that gentleman
advanced the theory that the Paris
a women retain their youth longer than
those of other nationalities, merely
because they take a perennial and
sincere interest in clothes. Clothes
TO them" said NJ. Wingrove, repre-
sent both art and science, something
more, in fact, than the mere frivoli-
ties Of fashion with which feminine
habiliments 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 WON
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, Al least soberly.
bnr
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,
woman Is never older than her
clothes or, ip other words. she is al
ways as youig as her frock-"
At WingroEes some exquisite dress
es, breathing the very essence Of
youth, we~s offered for the inspection
and admiration of the visitor. Deli
cious pinss and blues are favored for
taneta fTOcks, and the pannier in its
new and piquant guise is salient
feature This house continues TO
show the demi-decollete neck for
street gowns; and the skirt, with the
back hung little shorter than the
front, IL likewise advanced for re-
newed favor In connection with that
type OF Skirt, the interesting Norma
ton wa5 forthcoming that it happened
one day a mannequin put one of the
new sEilts on hlnd-side before and
that tia new dragery movement thus
revealed was Immediately incorporat-
&c IN a model which madame wore at
the Sunday Alaeuil races. where she
created something Of a sensation