Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1913 — WEAR YOUR CLOTHES EASILY [ARTICLE]

WEAR YOUR CLOTHES EASILY

Getting This Effect Is More to the Purpose Than Simply the Wearing of Rich Clothing. A little while ago a Frenchman said that English women were getting so that they wore their clothes more easily than they used to. He rejoiced at the fact. Women should wear their clothes easily. A beautiful gown worn stiffly is no better than an ugly gown worn graciously. In fact, the beautiful gown in this case is not so good as the other. Was there ever any sight more distressing than that of a simple woman dressed in all her Sunday best? Her clothes were well enough. They were well made and of good material! But she looked afraid of them and wore them stiffly. How much better she looked in gingham house dress, with apron and sunbonnet, perhaps to match. —j And then there Is the economical young girl who wears her “best" clothes always as if she had their value in mind and was trying to taka care of them. She smoothes them out and holds them well away from furniture and neighbors, that they — the clothes —may not be contaminated by touching anything. A young girl always looks better in a simple frock, comfortably and therefore gracefully worn, than in a really elaborate frock which she wears stiffly. Lovely clothed should be worn joyously, even indifferently. It is not hard to do this now, for clothes ara soft and clinging and graceful, and refuse to let their wearers look stiff and “careful.” So now, while fashion is with cultivate the art of wearing your clothes as if they'were glad you had them, as if they were a joy, not a burden, to you.