San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-17
PERSONNEL I
IN DRESS HER
LECTURE THEME
Madame Antoinette at
Wolff & Marx to Discuss
Better Methods.
MUST USE TALENTS
Women Urged to Create
Styles That Best Shoay
Temperaments.

Madame .AntOinette, internationally
known lecturer, authoress. and dress
creator will give to San Antonio wom-
EN- the benefit of the experience and
culture she has gained in her intensive
study of art in dress. In a series of
lectures illustrated by living models
TO be given Thursday. Friday, Satur-
day and Monday in the seventh floor
auditorium of Wolff & MARI, Madame
Antoinette will teach the women OF
San Antonio how they may express
their personality in dress.
Madame Antoinette is the epitome
of the art in dress which she teaches.
She is small, brisk, forceful woman,
trim in figure and graceful in car
riage. Her eyes which are of deep
and striking blue are continually a.
sparkle, and her hair which is golden
in color is cut in a perfect. boyish
shingle. She was dressed Monday in a
strStly tailored costume which exem.
plified all the good points of the pres
ent vogue for tailored simplicity in
street attire. She wore a tailored suit,
which she said was a Hickson model.
The suit was made of a blue-black
material with widely spaced hair-line
stripes of white, and was worn with
a boyishly tailored vest of white
pique.
Like Charming Poster.
Her high-heeled slippers were OF
shining patent-leather, and with them
she wore white-ribbed hose of English
manufacture. Madame Antoinette car
red small swsgger stick, also OF
black. and she would have looked like
charming poster in black and white
were it not for the touch of color fur
nished by her scarf and handkerchief
which were a lovely shade of burnt
orange. Madame Antoinette explains
that she docs not talk on the cold sub
icct of mere dress but that she en-
deavors to talk of every temperament
and every emotion through the artistic
medium of clothes. Madame Antoinette
urges women to use their creative tai
ents. and to dress according TO their
particular type. Madame declares that
fad should not be vulgariZed by call
ing il personality. Charm in dress.
according TO Madame Antainette is
only the answer to loneliness OF
thought. and Madame advises women
not 10 try TO appear sophisticated be-
Caues she thinks that occurrences is
the attitude which makes for a really
pleasing personality.
Madame Antoinette has spoken
fore 100 schools. and states that she
is contemplating series of lectures
in the San Antonio schools. Madame
states that she has had a marvellous
response from high school girls all over
the United States. She is trying to
show them the advantages Of eliminat-
ign rouge and lip-stick. Why paint the
lily? asks Madame. Madame Antoin-
cite denounceS the use of the word
" flapper" as undignified. She claims
that the definition of this word is not
applicable TO the young women of to-
day.
Opposed to Cosmetics.
Madame advises women not to ln-
suit natures colorings by public dis
play of cosmetics. She urges high
school girls to ventilate their bodies.
and let their skin breathe naturally.
We older women. she said smilingly,
must fake; we must help nature. but
we should not make up our faces as
though we were ready for the circus
arena.
Madame claims that corsets have
come into their own this season, and
that they are here TO stay. She states
that they help the heavy woman BY
making diet and over-exercise and
the use of drugs unnecessary. because
she may relieve herself of abnormal
lines and cultivate poise by the proper
use of undertakings for the hips, abdo-
men. and bust The use of the modern
corset enables the thin woman to ac-
centuate her good lines and to hide the
too conspicuous bones. Madame de-
clares that her lectures will give the
secrets of proper cOrseting. and show
how charm in dress and manners can
replace the artificial slinky SLOUGH
which milady has assumed.