The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-27
Interesting Demonstration Is
Given by Miss Hansen.
Women Have Conception of
Color, But Not Texture.
DOES NOT APPROVE LACE HOSE
Well Dressed Woman Never At
tracts Attention, She Says.
Gaudy Jewelry Does Not Mean
Good Dressing.

The second and last of the very in
teresting demonstrations in the art of
dress was given this afternoon at the
city auditorium by Miss Evelyn Han
sen, who is here with the Ross Crane
Better Homes institute. Today she
discussed especially, line and suitabil-
ity to occasion, showing her audience
how necessary it is that every woman
have a knowledge of the texture of.
materials and their relationship to
each other. The hat, gown and shoes
all should bear some semblance to
each other in the kind of texture.
A Fine Conception of Color.
Women have a finer conception of
color than they do of texture" said
Miss Hansen, "and that is one of the
most important things in gaining a
we'll dressed look" Madame Monte
sori in her kindergarten work has
found a lack of knowledge of texture
among the children and is remedying
| it by teaching them to select textures
| of similar kinds from out of a box
with their eyes closed. This is what
i the women of America need, a knowl-
edge of what materials they should
combine and what materials increase
| or decrease their size.
! A Study for Every Woman.
| Every woman must study herself
to find out which of the three sizes
she is, oversize. undersize or perfect
and realize how few of the perfect
ones there are compared to the 9TH
ers," said Miss Hansen. She empha-
| sized the wearing of horizontal lines
by the slender girl and vertical lines
| for the stout woman. mot only do
lines affect the figure, but materials
| decrease or increase the size Satin
or any materials with a sheen, light
| materials, such as pink. gray, blue
tan, materials with a nap, such as
I vol xro1rN
materials, flowered and plaid fabrics
! stripes, polka dots must be barred
! from the stout woman's dress voca b.
ulary. These materials which are not
for her belong to the slender girl"
! An Interested Audience.
An interested and amused audience
| listened to the lecturers explanation
/ of several pictures which she drew
| showing the various types of hair
dress, and how a slender woman wear
ing a V-Shaped neck dress and her
hair piled high on her head has the
appearance of a typical old maid. and
how the stout woman with a circular
! yoke, short string of beads and little
biscuits of hair over her ears is moth
ing but a series of circles. something
which she must always avoid in dress.
Plea for Physical Training.
Il Miss Hansen made a plea Tor physi-
cal training, telling her audience tnat
must know how to walk and must
have a good carriage, otherwise the
effect gained by her clothes is lost
THE average woman" says Miss Han
sen, unless she has an especially
| good carriage must have something tc
hold her up-the corset
To be well dressed for every occa-
: sion, Miss Hansen believes all that Is
5 | absolutely necessary in ones wardrobe
5 is a street suit, an afternoon dress ane
: a dress for evening wear. A woman
in New York, whom Miss Hansen con-
= siders the best dressed of all Womer
in the metropolis, buys a suit one year
D an afternoon dress the next and th'
r following year an evening dress. Thus
I wearing each of the three garme ment'
e three years and spending the remain
der of her clothes allowance on tn
little accessories of dress which meal
so much to a Woman's appearance.
THE American women are affectet
with a disease which I call decor1tis,
9 said Miss Evelyn Hansen last nigh
during the demonstration on the ar
of dress held at the high school audi
, torium. This was the first of the dres
: lectures in connection with the Bette
4 Homes institute being conducted her
6 by Ross Crane.
= Miss Hansen was introduced b
2 Crane, who made a short talk on Art
: before the speaker of the evening
| came on the stage. THE time ha
o come when old lady art must com
a down off her high horse and live wit
n the common people" is an old saying
d said Crane, which is not true, for W
a do not want art to come down. w
: must get up and fly along with art"
5 Docs Not Like Lace Hose.
S In her lecture, Miss Hansen demon
strated to her audience the effect @
certain colors on certain types
skins, which she classed in thre
J, not
ual coat of tan, the woman who
II tanned but who has a warm color, an
the woman with a clear skin and pin
cheeks. Girls and women of the thre
= classes modelled the various color
l. which became their type. Miss Har
l. sen does not approve of lace hosier.
e neither does she approve of wearing
d dres shoe with high heels with spol
II suit. THE use of small bit of colo
either at the waist, line, at the nee
h or on the hat, I call accidental" sh
: said. but have observed that instea
e. of wearing accidentals, more wome
n | are really accidents"
l. Never Attracts Attention.
"a well dressed woman never d
- tracts attention and simplicity shoul
- be the keynote of a youthful person
dress" are two statements which Mi:
q Hansen repeated again and again thr
y her talk. impressing her audience wit
the fact that gaudy jewelry and
large area of color and extreme linz
n do not mean good dressing. There
one man by the name of Woolworth
she told her hearers. who know
IN more about women than any oth'
te man in the whole wide world, for /
In knows their love of gaudy jewelry''
no "Only women with very clear ski
c-l shouId wear erav and a nint dress
IN out place ON a stout woman" said Mi
tie Hansen. "A stout woman should we;
d long stemmed. slim flower. but il
in stead of that" spoke the lecturer, "tl
re larger the woman, the bigger the CO
n sage
m The color motifs in two dress
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