Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-20
I'm BAD"
WITH OMAHA WOMEN
Emily Post in Her Latest Work
Charges That Locals Don't
Know How to Dress.
TOURED THROUGH HERE
By INTELLECTUALLY 10.

a dire charge has been laid at the
door of Omaha womenl And by one
of our own sex at thatl We call
upon all spirited Omaha women to
listen to the unmitigated charge made
by Emily Post and, horror of horrors,
scattered broadcast over the United
States in her latest work, "By Motor
TO Golden Gate"
1t was bad enough, we thought,
when Mrs. Post just touched upon
the subject enpassant when her story
appeared serially in Golfers last year,
shut what has she done but amplified,
gone into particulars, as it were, in
the book form.
What has Mrs. Post said about
us" you ask.
The Gruesome Details.
Oh, woe is usl We hesitate to
plunge all the rest Of our sisters into
such distress as the knowledge will
surely bring But, since we are
urged:
Mrs Post has openly criticised the
manner in which Omaha women
dress. Yes, she did. She says that
Omaha women who go to the Hotel
Fontenelle to dine, array themselves
as though to take part in tableaux
Vivants or an amateur ~ fashion
parade!
Think of 1.-THE conceit of her-to
assume that Omaha women do not
know how to dress appropriately
The dining room looked to her like
m importers opening" A few wo-
men looked smart, she admits, but
most Of them-and then she wrote
that shocking sentence.
Then she describes several diners
at the Fontenelle, and we have been
puzzling our few remaining brains to
know whom she meant But here!
You may read for yourself:
Whatever That Is.
u "A young girl with pink tulle draped
around the lower half Of her face bent the
tor edge down gingerly while she ate
Few mouthfuls and then carefully arranged
II across the tip Of her nose again. 1t
reened to be another example beside that
Of banting for thinness, of faut avoir faim
pour etre belle.
"A quite plump matron had on high
necked dress of white satin hooped round
the hips, and trimmed with black velvet;
another wore black charmeuse. the neck
and sleeves and picture hat outlined with
three quarter inch diameter pearl BEADS put
the prize for eccentricittes OF costumes ne-
lonRed to a man in black-and-wnlte
checked suit, black and-white striped SOCKS
and tie, and a white stiff shirt with BLACK
mourning border on the collar ana culfs ana
down the front seam. You can't get away
from the black and white craze anywhere;
neople will paint the fronts Of their houses
IN black white stripes II the obession
goes any further
"Amonr the appropriated, and we'll
drassed women one was superlatively smart
Srhis one was. really perfect, from the di-
raction in which her hair was brushed 10
axactlv suit the outline of her hat TO her
nerfectly shaped patent-leather shoes Her
rostnme ia not much to describe: A Sc
yereIv simple Eun-metal-colored taffeta one
nisca dress with a white organdie collar ana
stseves OF self-colored chiffon, wide
hr,mmed black straw hat turned up at one
aide Of the back with black oira. Inc
distinctive effect was due more 10 tne way
If was worn than to the costume. You telt
that II belonged to her almost In the way
,hat a collie's fur belongs to him; II was
no rnuch A part of her as her perfectly -oone
hair or her polished fingernails-