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MANNEQUIN VOGUE.
SLIM WAISTS.
Why Women Love Finery.
The British corsetieres in con- ference at Letchworth heard some incisive comments on men's and women's dress from the President of the Institute of Hygiene, Sir Thomas Oliver.
He commended the modern dress of women, and said that men were certainly overclad, There was nothing attractive about male at tire.
"There in an organic relation between the clothes we wear, the houses we live in, and ourselves," he said. "Our dress and dwellings reflect, the intelligence and aspira- tions of man, and are in keeping with the particular stage of his evolution.
While types of people used to be found out by painters or by fashion,
"Women do not dress specially to they seem nowadays to be induced almost solely by means of manne-attract the opposite sex; they do so largely to compete with each other. quina. and not even living mannequins at that. In Lely's day With them there is an lunate love everybody was plump, or rather, perhaps, Lely induced people only to look at those who were plump. In Rossetti's day everybody yearn- ed for and had thick bushy hair. To-day most people concentrate on their eyebrows, or lack of them, and their faces are divided up into well- marked zones of colour to which, in general, an indifferent expres- sion is given. There are no shodes, no individual paints of expression. Every one has to look down her nose and see that her lips are of the standard colouring. Hair is beginning to vary a little, but it still has to be glued to the head, even if in the shape of curls or twists.
This image of the modern woman comes straight from the manne- unliving quin-the
mannequin upon whom dresses are placed in shop windows, In Paris there is a window full of mannequins of different types--the fat man, the thin man, the girl, and so forth. As one looks one of them begins to turn round very slowly. This unexpected movement seems to bring all of them alive. And then one sees how the general public, and, in particular, the young woman, hua modelled herself en- tirely upon the one type, slender- hipped, neat, taut, with a face that chiefly suggests profile and evo- brows. There are, indeed, some new mannequins in which the which are Large, Soft and Natural features and expression are Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves, Oil Treatment, Shampooing, Henna Pack only reduced to (any colour). Hair Cutting and Mand colouring and shape, but in which cure for Ladies and Gentlemen. Conthey are banished altogether except scientious, Artistic Work by Europezu for the hint of a line or two which Expert. Mr. Alexander.
is carried out in metal. It fa like the suggestion of a man by means of a cigarette-end in the dark.
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So many things are manufactured nowadays for the bridge player, that un addition seemed beyond the wit of the ingenious. But no. Here is
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and pencils. You take it out to bridge parties, of course." There it may serve as 4 kind of first-aid box, and at home it be comes indispensable.
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Slower And Simpler Steps.
It has been decided that fashions in dancing are to be governed to 'a large extent by fashions in women's dress. Slower and simpler steps are demanded by the long evening frocks and hence the popularity in Paris of the simplified tango "La Ranchera" and of "El Antador," a languorous movement from Brazil.. Other dignified and simple dances are the "Tango-y-Paso" from Spain and the. "Phylo-Step" from America.
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There is so seldom a marked change in fashions for men that the present indications of a return
CHIC WASHING SILK. of the real square-cut beard of particular importance. Not only
Washing silk frocks, available in docs President Doumer favour such a beard; several important mem-a number of becoming abades, 'are bers of his entourage do the like the holiday-maker's greatest asset. and already the cult is spreading One is made from pale rose- pink silk and has 鹊 white silk collar. It has, too, a neat little bolero jacket, and the same model can be copied in a number of pastel shades. To wear with this or any other sports dress there are jolly little coats in fancy wool) stockinet in rose pink and other colours. These have inside tucks to ensure a close-fitting flat back, and fronts finished with a short flared basque.
of finery, expressed at an early age. in social and political circles. A "When women have secured such virulent outbreak of beards is also objects of their aspiration as
reported from Nancy where what home and maternity, motherhood are known as "Kruger" on "Song love of finery, but in some instances become very fashionable. may restrain for a period their and Dance" whiskers have lately
this seems to supply the oppor-
tunity of rivalry between mothers ing, which, compared with women's dress, is cumbersome, and grown-up daughters; for with modern women, more than with men, as the heavy, and unhygienic. Yet it is passing of the years is more keenly not so long since women's dress, disliked by them, they eling longer with its numerous petticoats, was to youthfulneas and make use of equally heavy and unhealthy, com- the best devices to personate it. pared with the shorter skirt and "Taken altogether, there is much open-neck dress of to-day. 'Meri are in the modern dress of women to certainly overclad, but whether commend it from a health point of sister woman is 'underclad you are view as well as the aesthetic. the better judges."
DandyismTMTM Gone."
For men the day of elegance in dress and of dandyism has gone, and with it many of the courtly manners of an age that is past.
Experience-had-taught that,-in.) spite of our uncertain climate, the
in i change in women's dress was the right direction, for the tendency to colds on the chest disappeared. "A few years ago a reform party On the origin and development was established in London to dis- of the modern waist in women, Sir cuss certain recommended changes Thomas said that during the in men's dress, the abandonment of highest perlod of Grecian culture. trousers, collars, waistcoats, un- the alim waist was practically un necessary buttons, and ridiculous known. It was when Greece began pockets.
to decline that women, to make "Notwithstanding this, I do not themselves more attractive, began observe in men 'any evidence of a the harmful practice of tight great desire to change their cloth-lacing.
Alternatives to dresses made from washing silks are, others made from one of several varieties of cellular wool tricot. A tailored dress of pale yellow cellular tricot has a neat short coat to match, fastened with crystal buttons. For warmer weather there are silk frocks with coats to match.
BEACH PYJAMAS.
The Vicar of St. John's, Wey- mouth; the Rev. F. E. Coryton, has appealed to Deuteronomy, as proof that the wearing of pyjamas by the female sex is incontestably abomination,
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"The woman," he quoted, "shall not wear that which pertaineth unto the man, neither shall a man put on A woman's garment." Logically, therefore, Mr. Gladstone committed an abomination when- ever he donned his bight-gown,
Comment by a writer in the Evening Standard: "Were it fit ting to cite Virgil, and especially the second Eclogue, I could con- found Mr. Coryton with a quota- tion of great aptitudo. But Latin tags do not, these days, look well in a newspaper.".
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