El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-25
Anita Stewart Talks To Girls
No. 8-"How to Dress Your Part

% in the tn world to girl is clothes
I - Men say that we spend too much
/ time and thought on them. and they
( laugh at US because we judge woman
I by the way she dresses
That's where men make mistake.
+ A woman gets her politics from her
! husband and her religion from her min
{ lister. but her clothes and the way she
: wears them are her own. and they
I show Just how much intelligence, how
much judgment and how much thrift
Z she has. Also a. woman changes her
mood when she changes her clothes.
For the time being she's the kind OF
! woman that her dress calls for. and,
Z she does and says things when she's
got on a sloppy wrapper tnat she
wouldn't dream Of doing or saying
when she had on a pink chiffon dinner
J gown.
wife unpleasant things things that
call for lecture. unless she had on
her best dress, that made her feel too
ladylike and refined to get into a real
quarrel. However it's a good thing for
us women that men are too dull 10 IN
derstand the philosophy OF clothes
They work US 10 a finish as il is
An Art Understood Well by the stage.
The stage understands the import
ance of clothes and how we can lay en-
phasis on any quality by dressing IT, so
10 SPEAK II WOA4QMLakE a hOAulAfs AOl
instance. to describe to an audience the
artless innocence Of a young girl which
is being conveyed by her being dressed
in a simple white muslin. with blue
sash and a flower wreathed hat
The adventures simply shrieks wick
edness by her red spangled decOllete
gown. and we know the victim by her
black dress and the poor relation by
her gray alpaca with turned over col
lars and cuffs
Nobody would thrill over a cowboy
= Il
brimmed sOmbrerO. nor could you get
any college spirit in a play unless all
of the men had on -rah-rah" clothes
It is because we are Judged by the
clothes we wear that we girls should
give the subject more Intelligent
thought than we do
Too many women just Hlindly follow
the fashion without any thought as 70
whether il suits them or not. That
gives us the figures OF fun we see all
about us-Old women with gray hair
dressed up like their granddaughter
fat women in styles intended for the
sylphlike, and bags Of bones publicly
exhibited until they look like anatom-
ical displays.
are judged by the clothes they wear.
If a girl is dressed in a nice. quiet.
modest manner she can go from one
end Of the country to the other and be
treated with perfect respect and def
erence. But II she toys herself out IN
an exaggerated costume-somethin
loud and 1lamDoEdnL ana an eAa8SeId-
tion 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
a man was brought in for having
spoken TO a girl who. il turned out was
eminently proper. Your Honor" said
the man. by way Of excusing himself
IF she is a good girl what did she
get herself up in that rig for2
And I have thought the same thing /
about many another girl
Girls should Dress Appropriately.
I would especially urge on business
girls the wisdom of dressing appropri- |
ately. If two girls should go to an
office applying for a job. and one OF I
them had on "A neatly tailored suit with /
a substantial shirt waist. high in the I
neck and long in the sleeves, and with F.
a triE little hat and sensible shoes. and
the other girl wore a befur- beloved 7
and lace trimmed silk. with high heeled !
shoes and a picture hat. we know well 1
enough which girl would get the job.
Don't just 90 TO the motion pictures /
for fun. Get some Of the lessons that ]
we hand out there. and one Of the most ]
important OF them is how TO dress your 4
part.
When we portray a poor girl we put J