Evening star., 1927-05-04
SUB ROSA
Too Snappy for the Girl.
BY MIMI.

Gladys has a great desire to be
what she calls snappy-by which she
means smart and ultra-modern and
very, very French.
Nothing braces Gladys UP like q
hint as to the very latest rage in
clothes from Paris. She eats up for
eign cables on the subject OF what
the well dressed woman will wear this
season.
The poor girl hasn't the income to
do the thing up brown--that Is, she
simply can't afford real French models,
with all the latest styles In jewelry,
shoes and furs displayed.
She has to go easy on the family
budget and she can't afford to
splurge. Still, she is determined to be
snappy and she tries hard.
A month or so ago a new.style hat
hit the country. 1t was the meaning
of the word snappy in one illustra-
ton.
1t was so ultra it fairly shrieked
with modernity. A girl wearing 1t had
to be looked at twice before one could
determine whether she were a rooster
or a human being.
One perfectly stunning New York
woman wore it and got away with 1t.
She wore it in brown felt-and with
the hat went a gorgeous sable coat. q
long strand Of pearls, a pair of the
smartest alligator shoes ever seen on
Fifth avenue, a suede bag with a dia-
mond monogram and several other lit
tie odds and ends which would help to
pay q large part of the French war
debt.
Gladys saw the outft, and the next
day, to her intense JOY, she saw the
daring little chapeau in her own IA
vorite shop-copy of the latest Paris
model--price, four-ninety-eight.
The next day Gladys appeared for
tea complete with the great new idea
in hats.
She expected to make a sensation
and she did. Her hat was undoubtedly
snappy.
1t was so snappy it made the rest
of her look as IL it didn't belong to the
face which wore the hat. For the rest
of her was clothed in an old green
dress, nice enough, you know, but aw-
fully usual and unexciting. A pair of
trim black pumps and black bag
completed that part of her below the
neck. The daring, snappy little hat,
perched rakishly over one ear, had no
place in that picture at all.
Gladys looked like a little girl who
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naughty.
She didn't look bit snappy. She
looked lopsided.
That's the tragedy of these smart,
dashing things we read about in news
papers and see in the fashion maga.
zines. They We're so smart and stun
ming and alluring.
We are SO sure that they would
transform us into Parisienne fashion
plates. But not one of them will, all
of itself.
The snappiest pair of shoes in the
world will only look snowy and tawdry
if they're not in the right picture.
The gay. bright, exotic looking bag
will only look smart with the gay,
bright costume.
All the little odd kinks in hairdress.
ing that we're seeing recently will do
for the woman whose clothes are dar-
ing enough to carry them off. But
they will make ridiculous the every
day girl who can't afford to do more
than dress trinity and neatly.
Strange, unusual shapes in hats,
shoes, bags or coats are dangerous
We mustn't try them unless we have
money enough to complete costume
perfectly.
fCopyrght. 192T.l
Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries
directed to this paper provided q stamped,
addressed envelope is inclosed.