Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-09
Anita Stewards Talks to Girls
No Slow to Dress Your psf
BY ANITA STEWART.

Copyright. 1918. International News
Service.
ore CT TIRE most mpor ant things in the
world to a girl Is clothes. Men say that
we spend too much time and thought on
item, and they lapga az us he ause We
Judge a woman by the way she dresses.
That's where men make a mistake A
woman gets her poiiticS from hor his
band and her rellg on fr, m her minister.
but her othes and tse way she we rs
them are her own, and thy sho ust
how much intelll ence. how much iud 70
ment and how mt Oh thrift she hrs Also
woman changes her mood when 'hc
changes her clothes.
For the time being she's the ki-d OF
woman that her dress calls for. and she
does and says things WREN sh's 4 { on
slorpy wrapper that The ul MT
dream OF doing or saying wen SIC had
on pink chiffon dinner g;wn.
II I were husband I'd never ten my
, vie unpleasant things, thin that call
for lecture. unless size had on her best
dress, that made her fe.l to ladyn e
and refined to get into a real ouarr I.
However. it's a good thing Ter Us women
that men arc too dull to understand the
philosophy OF clothes. They work us to
q finish as II Is
The stage understands the Importance
Of clothes and how we can lay emphasis
on any quality by dressing It, so TO speak.
II would take q volume, for instance, to
describe to an audience the arless IN
nocence of young girl which Is being
conveyed by her teing dressed II q
Fimple white muslin. with a bve sa-h
and flower-wreathe1 ha'.
The adventures simply shreks wicked
ness by her red-spangled decollste gown.
and we know the victim by her bl OK
dress and the poor relation by her cry
alpaca with turned over. collar and cuffs
Nobody would u rilI over a cowb,y who
didn't have on chaps AMI bread
brimmed sombrero. nor could you get
any college spirit in q play unless all OF
the men had on "rah-rah'' Clothes
II is because we are u gel by the
clothes we wear that we girls she uld give
the subject more intelh cent thought than
we do.
Too many women just blindly follow the
fashion without any thong IS to
whether It suits them or not. That gives
us the figures OF fun we see oil about us
old women with gray hair dressed ~
like their granddeughters fat women II
styles intended for the syIrh Ike. end
bags Of bones publicly exhibit unal
they look like anatomi, al displays
1 want to say over again that girls
are Judged by the clothes they wear. II
girl 10 dressed In nice. quiet. modest
manner she can go from one end Of the
country TO the other and be treated with
perfect respect HndSdeferenoe. But II she
toys herself out In an exaggerated cos
tume-something loud and flamboyant
and an exaggeration of the fashion-she
makes herself fair game for every street
corner masher. And YOU can hardly
blame him.
was In police court once when such
q man was brought in for having spoken
to a girl who. 1t turned out. was
eminently proper. Your honor" said
the man, by wey Of excusing himself, ~
she Is good girl what did she get her
self up in that rig for7''
And ] have thought the same thing
about many another girl.
would especially urge on business
girls the wisdom of dressing appropri-
ately. II two girls should go to an office
applying for a job. and one Of them had
on a neatly tailored suit with a substan-