What Well Dressed Women Will Wear
By ANNE RITTENHOUSE—Copyright, 1923, All Rights Reserved
France Suggests To America A Returirto Mannish
Tailored Suits
, One can do anything with a
tailored suit -by treating it right.
It deserves distinction, which it
rarely gets. We act as though it
were a poor relation to the richer
gowns in the closet. It is given
any kind of a blouse, any hat will
do for it, the oldest -shoes are
worn with it, it goes about in
Jhe rain and' snow, while better
1 frocks hang in muslin bags await
ing formal occasions, motor carS}
a and sunshine. -All this is to be
changed.
France brought to our attention
the shabby treatment we have
given this kind of dress, which,
above all others, is supposedly
ldO per ceht. American, Just as
Paris has" shown the Londoner
what a very alluring and'frivolous
thing an umbrella can be, instead
of an ugly, serviceable, rainy-day
thing that one hated to carry, she
is trying to prove to America
that her own type of costume is
more than a passably good thing;
that it has dash, charm, style.
Therefore, it has a new iilcarna
tion.
make the overblouse do its full
duty by taking on the coloration
of the suit.
- It is permissible to imitate a
tailored suit with a one-piece
frock that carries the brilliancy
of an overblouse as its top portion,
but the newer idQ£ is not to do
this. It is the incoming of the
genuine tailored suit, not its
imitations, that makes for news.
memory of those who once wore
covert cloth jackets with separate
skirts of dark blue serge and
mannish shirts of striped madras
or wash China silk. Those were
times when women had waists and
wore corsets and were proud of
both, caring naught that curving
hips swelled outward. .Will such
figures arrive with the revival of
the jackets? Hardly. Fashions
it is given a chance to play a
larger role than it has done for
several years. Days were when
it carried an ornamental blouse
after we had graduated from the
wash shirtwaist. Such days have
returned, bjit curiously enough,
nof through the French influence.
It appears that there will 'be a
wide divergence between the Paris
and the New York manner. We
intend to widen the scope of the
coat and^skirt, including it among
the costumes that are not limited
' to one kind of usage.
Overblouses Make Costumes
The overblouse makes this pos
sible. Its glories and attractions
are too tempting to limit it bo the
separate skirt, or to hide its light
under a coat. Let the rule be
what it may concerning a lady
removing her coat in public to
appear in shirtsleeves, she will
break it. Once she was still a
lady, even though she took off her
coat in the very eye and teeth of
the public, and those were days
when ladies existed, not flappers,
gamines, romps.
Jf she wears an expensive and
colorful overblouse, be it of
printed Indian silk, gold-em
broidered crepe de chine, silver
tissue with colored monogram,
We have had much of the so
called three-piece suits. We like
a bit more variety. -If is rather
stimulating to put on a different
kind of waist for various hours
and opportunities.
This is easily done with the
present three-quarter coat, some
times embellished with peltry at
its hem, certainly at its neck and
wrists, which erives it somewhat
change too quickly for figures to
change with them. Diaphragms
and waists are not under control
these days. Furthermore, these
jackets of the near future are cut
on straight underarm lines, ex
cept by those who insist upon be
ing different from their fellow
women. Such insurgent in
dividuals nip the underarm seam
Persian brocade, sne intends to.
show it. A fig for what con
stitutes a lady. She is right.
The fit and finish of the over
blouse makes her right.
When the jacket is removed she
appears in an excellent semblance
of a one-piece frock. It is only
under these conditions that the
coat comes off. With a tucked-in
shirtwaist of wash silk with an
\ embroidered dimity sport waist,
the jacket stays on. Realizing
these rules, every woman tries to
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the air of a protective wrap. t It
might be a top coat cut short for
reasons of weight and con
venience. The incoming short
jacket, however, presents more\<>f
a problem. It will -eause some
wrinkling of the brow. \
This newer garment has noth
ing of the well-worn jumper
jacket in its ipake-up. It stirs the
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Copied From Men’s Garments
Masculine is the coat, feminine
are the accessories, is the creed.
France copied the present jacket
from the loose lounging coat worn
by the men of that nation.
Its underarm seams are plumb
from shoulder to hem, its arm
holes are small and snugly fitted
high into the armpits, the lapels
and collar are well-known acces
sories to men’s coats, there are
three buttons above the waist or
three below it, and real pockets
are placed at each side, one at the
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With such a jaunty jacket goes
the most severe skirt, almost too
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a ruj,e, unless one is afraid to cut
off all chance of wearing a tuck
in shirtwaist. It is often made of
black or rust velvet, a material
that was not considered proper
for the walking suit in other
times, but no one pays attention
to creed and code of the preced
ing generations. Pearls were
once kept for gala occasions, but
now they are worn to business,
which is a striking example of
what not to do, but what every
one does. Patent pumps with im
mense silver buckles placed below
stocking^ that closely resemble
flesh are as frequent on highways
and byways as were black lisle
and sturdy boots in less capricious
days.
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