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ADY DUFF-GORDON, the famous "Lucile" of
London, and foremost creator of fashions in the
world, writes each week the fashion article for this
newspaper, presenting aH that is newest and best in styles for
well-dressed women.
Lady Dutf-Gordon's Paris establishment brings her into
tlo&e touch with that centre of fashion.
Lady Duff-Gordon
Describes the Kind of
Dresses the Stout Woman
Ought to Wear to Be
Slender and the
Kind the Slender One
Ought to Wear
Not to Look
Too Thin
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tStreet . - oi Covert Cloth, Designed to
Encourage Walking. ("Lucile" Model.)
THE old cry, "Why don't you de
sign dresses for fat women
like myself," Is the yolce" of
six out of every twelve women. Al
most the last thing I should care to
he Is the "fat frump's friend." She
always reminds me of the ostrich
that trades Its head in the sand by
putting a silly little hat on or wear
ing a tight gown that looks as
though It were "spread" on her like
butter. My experience of the fat
woman Is that she loves to sit at
home, eat the best of everything, and
then rely on an expensive quack
medicine and her dressmaker to
make her thin. My advice to her Is
very old exercise, dancing, for In
stance and I should like to see
large electrlo signs outside of all
dancing palaces, "Fat-Reducing a
Pleasure," and let the medicine, and,
most of all, the dressmaker, be the
last resort.
Anyway, as the last resort, let me
expound and this Is where the
ostrich comes In: Dear lady, you
are fat anyhow, so the best way to
disguise It Is not to wear a tightly
swathed gown that marks every
"curve," or else high collars that
heap out chin after chin. My advice
Is go easy, and, If your hips are
large, wear one of the new wired-out
skirts and make them twice as
large; for, whereas is a tight skirt
you show Just exactly bow big you
are, in a full, sticky-out one, your
friends have just to guess how much
Is you and how much is dress, while
with the new long-pointed tight
bodice, the fattest of women can
generally produce a possible waist,
and there you are.
Now there Is a type of big
women who would look ridiculous in
these dresses thst is, the aniazon
and her only hope Is the thin dress.
Ixng. clinging, hanging drapery are
hers, even If she Is fat: all drapery
beginning as high tip a possible to
emphasise her taHgbt and rite, much
in the same way that a short lady
exaggerates her width by the full
skirt. Her height can also be eiag
Iterated by a headdress that stands
straight up.
To the tall, big woman ! advise
the centre pic
ture, a "thin
dress" of clinging
cloth of stee!
draped with fine
black . lace and
having two girdles
of large emeralds
and small dia
monds. Her head-
dress is com
posed of bands to match with two
upstanding black feathers. Note
how all the draperies fall from the
shoulders and above the waistline
and think how ridiculous she would
look In the same dress if she were
short and fat Instead of tall and
stout.
Now for Mrs. Short and Plump,"
in the lower right-hand corner:
She has a "fat dress." Her dreBS
is of black tulle with Jet embroidery,
and her greatest enemy could never
say that she filled trie entire width
of that skirt.' while her tight waist
only helps the illusion. Look at the
modest little black lace tucker, con
tradicted immediately by the dia
mond shoulder straps. It Is really
to my mind a cunning gown, and
think how ridiculous she would look
in the same frock if she wert really
tall and stout. So, stout ladies, de
sign your own gowns, or, rather, let
me design them, but you choose the
right ones for yourself. As a last
resort, don't rely on me to "make"
you thin. I'm not fat, and I didn't
"make" myself thin. I kept myself
slim, but I always work hard and
play hard, too, for that matter.
Now. I will give you a couple of
drenm's for walking. I mean good
walking, for exercise. The top left
hand covert coating U tight and
practical. It is light in weight, has a
full, abort, easy skirt and nicely fit
ting coat with large pockets. The
stripe leather belt is rather high and
the rlose-flttlng aleevea match the
collar with their black and white
stripe facing. Shoes, hat and stick
are. of black and white to mutch. A
little stripe tusaore answers the pur
pose better for the afternoon wear.
The lower part of the skirt having
tbe appearance of being slightly
closed, but In reality la sufficiently
large, by reason of the bos pleats
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Another Walking Dress of Tussore.
In front which spring from
below the waist, where the
little double button vest
finishes. The overdress Is
of the same material, but
made on a different grain,
the stripes running cross
wise instead of down. It
appears like the turn-back
skirts of the French soldier coat,
but la, of course, much fuller and
folds from the waist in the back In
box pleats, an exact copy of thit
from the vest In front. The material
Is in natural colored silk stripe blue,
which colors we have repeated with
black In the waistcoat. Her hat is a
green straw with a bunch of cherries
and leaves at the side.
A few more words for the fat
ladles. Transparent effects are
good, but always from a dark lining,
as nothing is so unbecoming as an
ugly, apparently naked, form veiled
in black or other colored tulle.j,
while on the other a beautiful slln
form is the thing of Joy if veiled oi
slightly veiled.
The hair should be dressed very
close to the bead in either case, as
nothing to my mind la more frowsy
than a loosely dressed head which
looks as though it had been coifrured
with a knife and fork rather than a
comb. Ijong earrings often make a
good line, while umbrellas or sun
shades should be as long and slim
looking as possible. In tbe case of
double chins, ntcktacee are, of
course, entirely tabooed, unless it Is
a string of parls, D which case
they must rcarh well' below the
waist and be loosely knotted. Low
shoes are preferable to high, light
top boots, and the most important
of all Is, however stout, an erect
carriage and a good businesslike
step when walking.
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A "Fat Dre' for "Mr. Short
and Plump," and. Beside It,
in the Centre, One of the
Thin Dresses" the "Amazon
Woman" Looks Best In.
(" Lucile" Modtb.)
What the Stars Promise of Good fortune and Bad for April
Tils: fu'i moon figure ruling the Cr.t
nsif of Apnl has Saturn ana Nep
tune unfortunately in the western
aet'e. which rvlaiee to lliktucy. enmity
aad foreign trade A sear rupture la gov
ftsmttUI resiles Is apperent. and we
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the aature ef a reeee ef war b aot lur
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ciel probable arouod the middle of Apn;.
with some aotabte accidents at the satce
ticae.
A toeer baroniater lustk the bfe&itig
days ef April, hut Ue angular poeition r(
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along (he line ef anaesthetics Share
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A;r l II. A rntiral d!p:oo.atlc situation
whrh rars up by thm Uth. wKh a rae
surtcg jier of news from t'ablaet ctrclee.
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the sttd lle and end of April.
Th det'resatve Katuru will be strongly
ta etiueme tbl tuonth for those burn
hetween the 17th and :ota of March or
June, or lth U i:d of KeftemLer or 1
rembe of asy year: or If la Ihe Winter
of IH, Hueneter of li. ttrlog of I v..
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birthday be aer the Mh. I'.ia or 2A ef
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taee born In IUJ or M Uir of Isil. Maa
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first alee saoeths ef 1T. HieiMf ee fell
ef JI'l. Kessater of 1174. 'els ef It7 e
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around the rluee of Kebruarf. April. June,
CKtober or lecei"br of any year.
I'ranua la a perturbing factor If bera
within I h Tih of t'ebruary er May er Tta
th of Aug jt or No ember of any year;
horn and buli lalerests feo perilled,
with Voee of peeiilon for thoee In eeWer
meat; guard agalaM an id en t aad aersewd
troeblee
Tbe U 4th as aaltereartee. tacilae ta
treeblea by Ut or writ tags la resslag
year of l.fe. eafaierahie binhdaye for
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