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WRITING HER LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS.
WILLING TO CO WITH BROTHER.
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"THE NIGHT I1EFORE CHRISTMAS.'
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WHAT DID SANTA BRING BABY 7
WILLING TO GIVE OLD SANTA CLAUS A LIFT.
Problem of Dressing for the Christmas Festivities
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OR one thing at least the American
society woman may give thanks.
She is 1 88 hampered than lv r
sisters across the water. Kdk
Ush and German women do them-
an injustice in their gown
never striving after the at
idcal. French women cheapen
Viennese
selves
ing by
tractive
themselves by their artificiality
women overload themselves with trim
mings and ornaments. The fashionable
women of America, having no traditions to
follow, look for the best each bazaar has to
offer and combine the most attractive spe
cialties of other nations. With her each
costume must be a finished picture, and her
personality must give It atmosphere. If
she is an artist In clothes, she will em
phasize her best features. To Idealize the
real woman Is the highest perfection In
dressing.
Comparatively few women appreciate the
secret of artistic gowning, but the stand
ard Is getting always higher. Indeed, not
a few American women deserve credit for
displaying their very bes points, in know
ing what really suits them.
Mrs. Jonn jacob Astor, for example,
knows that her patrician, cameo-like beauty
will bear a gown of plain white satin that
would make another woman look hideous,
and she always wears It whenever possi
ble. Mrs. Oliver Harrlman knows that black
best suits her gorgeous oriental style, and
she Is seldom seen In anything else.
The little Countees Castellane has been
transformed by modistes from an almost
plain girl into a very smart and extremely
well gowned woman.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay has learned that
a certain eccentricity is her charm, and
she accentuates that quality In everything
she wears. Exaggeration is her forte, and
yet she keeps within the boundary I!ne of
fitness.
The duchess of Marlborough's wistful fare
and lithe figure look best in simple, quaint
clothes, and one gets the Impression that
her things suit her perfectly.
Mrs. Curzon, who was Mary Letter, wears
a regal style of gowns and garniture that
make her look the thoroughly queenly
type of woman that she la.
Occasionally there are women who ought
to know better, yet who are grotesque
In their dressing. They dress like market
women, not like the aristocrats they really
are. Usually one such woman is to be
found In every social clique. Their pe
culiarities in dress, however, do not seem
to affect their popularity.
The Christmas holidays give a better
opportunity for showing off one's ward
robe to advantage than almost any other
time, for it marks the very height of the
season, following, In New York, the horse
show, the opera and the largest events of
the society year, when the display la to bril
liant that only those gowns that have char,
aeter count.
The trappings for gaslight wear are a
simple problem as compared with the diffi
cult question of simple daytime gowns.
The regulation garb of people who live
on the golf links or In the saddle Is easily
disposed of. But for the person who goes
about town the question of raiment Is not
so nonchalantly dismissed. Apparel for
many differ) nt occasions has to be con
sideredfor ordinary visiting, daytime en
tertainments, shopping, walking, driving,
foot ball games, Christmas outings and
family parties, church festivals and all the
events that come with the season, and do
not have to be considered at any other
time. For all these a woman must have
a complete set, not only of smart, but par
ticularly serviceable day gowns, hats and
wraps.
A black hat, which may be draped with
a black and white gauze veil, completes
a costume that dresses a woman for any
occasion, short of an elaborate luncheon,
reception or other entertainment.
A visiting gown recently made up for a
smartly-dressed woman would answer for a
reception, for driving, tea, luncheon or
church wedding. It is made of champagne
colored French broadcloth, with very sharp
outlines in black velvet ribbon and silver
braid. The skirt Is laid In fine pleats,
stitched like tucks, but allowed to stand
out from the skirt. Stars of embroidery,
in black and white, ornament the bottom
of the skirt, and black Is much used about
the Jacket. The shape Is a combination
of blouse and bolero, the latter being of the
cloth to match the skirt, while the full
part of the Jacket is of white silk, heavily
embroidered in pink and blue. The upper
half of the sleeve Is of cloth, with the usual
full lower sleeve of black chiffon. The
collar is of baby lamb, which also forms
a yoke. The hat of baby lamb is elaborately
trimmed with tulle.
