Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — TO GIVE EFFECT TO CLOTHES [ARTICLE]

TO GIVE EFFECT TO CLOTHES

So Much Depends on the Carriage of the Wearer as to Whether She Looks Her Best.

I am sure every normal girl wants to look dainty and pretty, only she doesn’t always know how to go about it. First and foremost let her stand straight. Stooping is a habit that one needs great will power to overcome. There is a dangerous • tendency toward stooping shoulders in the present limp picturesque clothes, now in fashion, but don’t give way to it. Indulge in the baggy _ effects and Magyar and kimono styles, but don’t stoop. Simply let them fall into natural, easy lines. A crumpled collar, a guimpe that is so small that it gapes in the back just between the hooks, a button missing where its absence is revealed, a plain pin where there should be a little silver or gilt safety pin, all these are calamities when one starts off in a hurry and than is suddenly conscious, of them. Of wjiat use is it to have a dainty blouse if you stoop so that it wrinkles and sags, or to have a handsome gown if you stand so badly that its graceful lines are spoiled. You’ve seen the girl who has a generous dress allotvance, yet somehow cannot manage to look well dressed. We’ve all seen her. She exists everywhere. She wears her clothes badly in the first place, and she has not the slightest realization of the value of little things which go to make a successful toilette. Her ribbons are crumpled, her frillings are soiled, her collar is not neatly pinned down in the back, but insists upon riding up under her coat, so that it soon loses its pristine freshness. — Exchange.