Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — A GERMAN WOMAN’S PRAISE. [ARTICLE]

A GERMAN WOMAN’S PRAISE.

She Says American Women Dress Better Than Pariaians. “American women dress better than the women in any country in Europe, even in Paris,” says Miss Helen Hasse, a German author now traveling in America. “In Europe only the wealthy classes dress well, but in America all women do. Clerks who make only $3 or $4 a week dress in perfect good taste. With a one dollar shirt waist and a one dollar skirt they have the style of queens, a style that European women do not get by spending many times that much. They dress their hair beautifully and take good care of their complexions. The latter—although sometimes more art than nature—are very good. As an average the American women are pretty.

“Here In America it Is unnsnal to see a badly dressed woman, while in Germany it is unusual to see one who is well dressed:

“I am a great adthirer of the middle class American woman. Bhe Is Intelligent, always looks the lady, makes her own clothes, does her housework and is a splendid housekeeper. The German woman of the same class never looks well dressed, is always in dressing sacks, dirty and scrubbing. One seldom sees the American woman scrub, yet her house is always clean. “The Paris woman possibly has the better of her American sister on hats and gowns, but the American woman looks better. Only the high society of France can afford these expensive gowns. The average American woman can make herself a beautiful and stylish gown for little money; consequently the laurels’ belong to her.”

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