The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30

Buying Clothes


nAhuoSh li0 young woman VINO likes
to talk. "But where they expect to
spend their future life if they continue
in their earthly careers of mendacity.
I'm sure don't know. l became so
fascinated specializing as to what
they'd say next that lost sight COM
pletely of the dress was trying tn
buy.
The first damsel was healthy,
pleasant looking young woman and
she put on me a connection that was
built last fall and therefore marked
down at this date. It made me look
as tho were trying to be somebody's
little girl with a sash tied around my
knees. BY main force l restrained
msself from sticking q finger in my
mouth and saying Goo! Cool Yet
that aDDlc-eheeked girl beamed at me
and wanted to know if ever in my
life had steppedsinto a gown that
seemed to h:ge been made so ex-
pressly for me. She said that she
never saw anything suit ones type
so veil being five feet eight and
never of the kittenish style-and that
the taupe color brought out all the
/ browns in my hair. 1t may havo
agreed with my hair, but the mirrow
showed how it turned my face sort of
a lemon color.
However, that brazen sales per
son didn't quail even under my re-
proachful gaze. And she said that
while the advance styles showed
short-waisted frocks the sensible
woman would cling to these long,
Moyen Age frocks as long as they
could get them. While / was getting
into my own gown heard the sales
woman in the next booth assuring
her customer that anybody who
bought anything but short-waisted,
full-skirted frock was horribly foolish,
as those long-waisted things were
terribly old style and labeled one
back number and frumpy. WhereupoA
my clerk turned a perfectly angelic
gaze on me and opincd that tAe
weather was going to remain cod.
''At the next store drew a naughty
creature who arose languidiy from
her chair, quite as tho l h L rude'y
disturbed her in important aIairs
said afternoon dresses and she bean
ed. / added the limit of my Price anI
she let limpid eyes of pity fall upon
me. Oh, yes, they had some gowns,
but at that price one was SO limited
in choice! Now, if | wanted a real
bargain here were some SEQ f4oc.zs
marked down to $75. Che sighed
when sternly repeated the p.ice l
wanted to pay.
"Of course, if liked pink, here was
one, altho most women when they
reached my age didn't essay pink.
Here was a black velvet and crepe
frock. | waved it away. l told her
/ would not be SO until my next birth
day.
"Then she put on me silk frock
that had waistline almost beneath
my arms and was five yards around
the bottom of the skirt. / looked like
a cross between a tub and ballet
dancer. She went into ecstacies. II
was one of their newest models and
l ought to be crazy about myself in
it. / told her was, almost, and that
if she didn't remove it from me quick
ly | was likely to be breaking fur
niture and things under the stress Of
my emotions. She said if l didn'-
care for that, here was love OF
gown in the clinging style and they
had just got it in! Oh, yes! Some
were clinging and some were full-in
NJ Yawk they were wearing either, oh,
yes, indeed!
Sat the next place the princess who
waited on me said they had sold out
all the thirty-eights. Then she cried
that So had found one on the hangers
and it was just the thing for me! TWAS
a nondescript arrangement that look
cd as tho it might have been made a
year ago or in year to come. 1t
dragged down at the collar in the
back, it bulged over my shoulders, 1t
made me look like a foot larger than
usual around the hips and gave me
the general sprightly air Of hippo
potamus. She clasped her hands in
ectasy. There! 1t was simply per
feet! why, I'd just love myself every
time / looked in the glass! Just see
that line! Wasn't it lucky had dro-
ped in before it was gone?
"She really didn't see why it hadn't
been grabbed before. except that the
hanger was way back Of the others!
Miss Jromps! Oh, Miss Fromps,' she
called. Come over here! l want to
show you how wonderfully this dress
becomes this customer! Once in
while we find some one whose figure
is so perfect that she can just walk in
to a dress as tho 1t had been made
for her. Isn't it wonderful!
when she saw me walking out
thought she was going to have apo
plexy then and there. She assured me
I'd regret it all my life, losing such
bargain.
80 came home exhausted, more
than ever con ginced that the Japanese
women are the only sensible ones on
earth when it comes to clothes!"
t.o~ 80 NT,I1 hnf