Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-17
nlWDLE AT DRESSING?
MANS GBE IS SECUTED
adv Leaders Garb for Opera
sOy :, I;fv-Business Women
Well Groomed in a
Rush
otARrER HOUR APLENTY
Ru M,LIss


.,n,tssg A worlds record for
Twenu pshaw Some Of Philadel-
fasi ar sat dressed women smash tnst
rhla's ue, dnv by garbing themselves
Eeeotu sttn out In half the time,
from t'e 'r,residents daughter. Mrs; Eleanor
lhs vie Of the Secretary OF tne iISas- ,.u-
,bousht she said s soIletn'ts .,,tra
" announced she couIu cou,N. en III, in twenty
fhe ,.,slv and satisfactorily III t"e"''
minutes -,,,,v pooh-poohed by women
she W. artorially leave nothing 10 pe
lde Here are n few OF the ias.,u" sns.
eesreu 90 whom twenty minutes TOT u%ress- %
qls ,.or like n wait for a flne SUI SUI -, bo
ing looh ,,,cs Francis Sullivan, said 70 pe
Mrs. sc siv best.dressed women In Fhila'
one OF wv r-,f,cen minutes required on aver
dslphia Fltee"
sge oS'45ror Tronces Sullivan. her stylish daugh:
Ton minutes, usually rive
necessary ,,.,,,,,,, smart sufrragist.
.,,, minutes, including warm sCrup anu
lrsnvss sor Ten minutes otherwise.
coo Tbonns Il. Smith, chic wife OF the
MIs' ,T,gontv minutes, even for elaborate
epera costuming'
MAID GIVES RULING
-,,, Mrs sullivan was asked TO eXpa-
WheI .ot inro consultation with her
.,s before delivering verdict
80. maid saws twenty minutes Is too
s shc said finally, "if one really puts
ss, 10y mind on dressing. she saNs-put
~, heIIcye her--that often 90 IL III
,,st iess I have never really thneu my
m.s" L,s am sure / could feel perfectly
sell ,, put and welI-groomed II given
SnI,, Sollav minutes. or at the most haIt hour'
tWenS ,,~e I can dress creditably In htteen
.a. ~ yvhen | comb my own hair. IL
.at.s ionEer-and probably looks oet'er-
when she does H. ,,. ., Ntrs SuIliyan.
nrohably caught the sartoria, speen ann
har siepdaughter, Miss Mona McAuoo'
irSiI ,"rother with Miss Frances sullivan
n.hshlv the speediest dresser OUTSIDE OF
vaudeville. .,,u,-
,N,.,o can dress in fash" Mrs. Sulh-
lid "ard my daughter Frances, Is her
ss,,i Last winter at the Cuyler o@hi, @
rrances made record that we are s.,.'
f'hor,ng she came in from New York.
"a Ave minutes In which to make dinner
,.sr cnt. after which the ball was to be
Ia sbe dressed in the five minutes ana
looked we'll"
Good suffrasists, Mrs. Dunning asserts
Az NOT reonirs .nore than ten minutes put
they must concentrate. ,,
~, car be done easily in ten minutes.
.bs said, "if one is not interrupted and
nns concentrates The hair needs the most
.,,sntIon. The neck and the waistline
rome next The rest is easy, Give me
twenty minutes and 1 can take warm
scrub and a cold shower"
The Mayors wife. who always presents q
chic appearance, admitted that she nkeu
half hour, but that she had otten
ai,,mned into her clothes" in half that
tme without even thinking of smashing
sTbe modern woman" she commented.
rls always in more or less well-groomed
condition, and therefore much time TOT
actual dressing is not required. take less
lima for evening costume than for street
attlre--probably because there Is less TO
rut on. Twenty minutes is very COM
Portable amount"
BUSINESS woMAN's RECORD
A smart business woman whose skirts
never threaten to divorce themselves from
her blouses and whose nicely coiffed hair
d a marvel TO behold declared that to take
more than twenty minutes is criminal
Meat and becoming dressing is essential
10 a woman's success In any line, she
youehsafed "but having too much time Is
often worse than having not enough. You
are apt to dawdle and try your hair in
several different ways. before you discover
that your allotted time is almost up and you
must leave 1t the last way, whether 1t Is
becoming or not My rule is to put every
thing that l require out at night. / give
myself twenty minutes in the morning and
manage TO stay snug all day"
But the syeete sale5woman at the per
fume counter, who is marvel to all who be-
hold her, was exceedingly cynical when she
was told that there are people who car
dress in twenty minutes.
They have maids" she said fatty. "who
work all day for them. They never have
10 stop to run ribbons through, or sew but
tons on their shoes or put drawing strings
into their petticoats. Their bath Is turned
on for them. Their things are laid out They
don't have to root around to find out where
their other collar-the clean one--is.
could dress in twenty minutes. too. IL l had
maid and my hair was curled by nature
instead Of patent wavers. That would be
elneh. As 1t is 1 take an hour. 1t can't
b done in less"