The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-12-06

Tho feature Of this black velvet
frock is the panels back and front,
which are OF black and gold gauze
and fall below the skirt. The bodice
is plain and finished at the neck
with fur.
mass the outstanding fact that inter-
ests the sellers of clothes, is that wom-
en- deliberately ask more often for a
high-priced gown than ever before and
pay the price with seeming willingness.
Why? The act is not explained by the
word "eXtravagance." 1t is level-head-
ed conservation.
1t does not take woman with ex-
traordinary shrewdness to know that
cheap materials are not lasting. No
body ever bought them with the belief
that they would carry one with salts
faction throughout the season. They
we're bought by women who preferred
to spread a small income over many
cheap costumes; women-and America
rs filed with them-who like TO vary
their costume every day or every two
months rather than be compelled to
wear the same thing throughout the
weeks of a settled season. 1t is their
form of getting stimulation.
Wisdom in Buying Gowns.
1t Is, no doubt, an actual hardship
for a large mass of American women
to deny themselves the pleasure of n
constant procession of clothes at small
prices, but they must economic in
this, as in food. A cooking expert has
said that there are no such garbage
pals in the world as here; that the
kings of Europe did not have such gar
bage as the factory woman In the tene-
ment districts of this country discards.
This, it is true, has stopped; and even
when garbage is plentiful, showing a
spirit that is not unpatriotic but ig-
norant Of thrift, then the government
steps In and gets all sorts of things
useful to the war out of the pail that
once was nosed by the dogs and
dumped into outer darkness.
~ Why Women Buy With Care.
So even though the American woman
may not wish to wear one good cos
tune throughout the season, her pa
triotism commands her to do 1t. This
is the kernel of the entire situation.
She buys In order that her clothes may
last. She does not wish to take the
time to constantly mend cheap. clothes
and renew them at odd moments. She
great-grandmother. who chose mate
rial carefully and in many lights, paid
a good price for 1t, and expected 1t
to live up to its reputation.
A woman who goes into a shop this
season to buy an everyday gown, pays
$50 where she once paid SIS for 1t.
This Is as. near the average figure as
the shops can get. She asks IL the
material will wear, II It will hold its
dye, II the seams and stitchery are
good, and when she finds that they are
just what they once were, but that
they are not up to her modern stand
ard Of purchasing, she adds SO or SIS
to the price and buys another gown
that suits her judgment.
No one is happier over the state Of
affairs than the shopkeepers. They
prefer to sell fewer gowns ut good
prices, for. while It is not necessary
to renew them in few months they
give greater satisfaction to both par
ties.
Styles That Remain With Us.
The continuance Of the chemise
frock and the sandwich silhouette has
given comfort to many women, because
II allows them to wear, for a time,
the frocks they possess. Whether or
cot this silhouette will die out rs the
season strengthens, no prophet can