South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-04
A Good Plan For
Business Woman
Leave Diaphanous Gowns to
Woman of Large Income and
Buy Practical Garments.

An interesting discussion has been
on recently in the eastern newspapers
as to why women follow fashions like
sheep. Many letters have been show
cred on the various editors, some of
which offer a splendid solution of the
dress problem for the business wom-
an, particularly. one such letter. APP
pearing in the New York Sun, is as
follows:
II is largely because the average
woman and man lack courage and
originality in matters of custom where
the line OF least resistance offers least
criticism, courage to wear what COM
ports best with other belongings,
originality in determining and acquir-
ing what best salts the individual per-
sonality. In justice be it said, how
ever, man in every station in life is
more economical in his personal needs
and more sane in his type and fash
ion of clothes than woman, because
his garments at all times express
practically, durability and reserve.
To avoid that blue spring mood
when the clothes proposition comes
up, suppose the discouraged woman
celebrates longer before purchasing
clothes and then seeks to buy more
wisely. Dainty, diaphanous garments
with a saucy challenge in them and
in conspicuous cOlOrs, may do for the
woman with a large bank account, if
that is her fancy, but hardly for the
woman either with a limited income
or a sense of her responsibility toward
those less well off Let the woman
whose life is abundantly filled with
happy business either in or out of the
house and wants to look well always,
but not feel clothes an obsessiOn try
this plan.
Get every fall one good, dark cloth
coat and skirt suit made on good con-
servative tailored lines-a mans tailor
knows best how TO do it. Let her
treat this gown as if she never expect
ed to get another That is, take 1t
off as soon as she returns from the
office, shopping or calling, never per-
hitting herself TO lounge in 1t for
one moment. Slip at once into a trim
white, home made shirtwaist and skirt
of Indian head at 10 cents yard, or
if she prefers, into a simple little dim
ner gown-it all depends upon how
she intends to spend her time and
what her ideals of seemliness are
and put her street suit on stretcher,
brushing carefully before she hangs it
in the closet.
Spend 81 for an electric iron and put
a white suit in the bathroom basin
each night, ironing it while wet with
out starch and with the iron very not
She can do the whole thing in so
minutes in her room.
Once a year, preferably in the fall,
select carefully a becoming pattern
and make up a pretty silk gown
adaptable for several kinds of occa-
sions and two daily white gowns
trimmed with good lace. These will
do her for all special or frilly occa-
sions. If she is an outdoor woman,
that is if she loves any kind of sport,
have the tailor make one strong, wide
slxirted, serviceable coat and skirt suit
of khaki. This can be tubbed once
month, and will look well for two
years. With six white or colored tub
suits she is equipped for almost any
dress emergency short of her own
wedding OF course, every woman
needs good outing coat loose enough
to wear over a jacket such as the
men wear and call an overcoat, and a
dressy coat for warm weather as well
as cold, preferably long.
One more word: Let no woman de-
ceive herself with the thought that
she dresses to please men. Women
worry over clothes because OF wom-
ans eagle eve. The man who likes her
at all likes her clothes because of her
and not her because of her clothes.
Men in the main are very dear, simple
souls anxious TO be pleased.