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ADY DUFF-GORDON,
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the world, writes each week
the fashion article for this newt-
paper, presenting all that n newest and best in
style for well-dressed women.
Lady Duff-Cordon's Paris establishment brings
her into close touch with that centre of fashion.
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A Girlish Dreu for Girls. Whit Chiffon, With Eflrer Lct
Bodioe. Tonic and Three-Oolored Silk CirdU.
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By Lady Duff-Gordon ("Ladle")
WITH crandmothera dressing llk roang girls
and mothers being mistaken for daogbters,
It is really a Question Just bow a young
girl should dress really to bn different from mamma
or grandmamma.
Unquestionably the eras for dancing has helped
largely to bring the new girlish note into all the
d raises. Erery one dances, and the stiff, staid oM
fashions fcr women past forty are not at all har
monious with the positions of the modern dances,
or can oue be graceful ta them. Imagine one doing
the fox trot in the stiff satins that the lady of orer
forty used to wear!
Personally I like the new girlish dresses- be
cauM age is in most cases only a matter of the
vtnd, and the younger(we feel the younger we look.
I know beautiful old lady of seventy in France
whose dresses are the most girlish Imaginable, and
yet they are not out of harmony with her, because
her mind la etlll girlish. She knows Just how to
wear these, and one always feels an atmosphere of
springtime about her. Of course, I am not advo
eating a wrinkled person to wear the short dresses
of childhood but what I do mean ia that most
women have a tendency to "dress to old." and this
Is not only not beautiful, but It Is unfair to the
woman herself, and puts ber out of the running, as
you Americans say. long before she ought to bo.
Therefore I advocate glrllshness In dress wher
ever It can be displayed.
And as for young girls what difference does It
make If mamma or grandmamma does wsar their
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Another Oirliah Drtsi Adaptable to Older Women. It It ot
White Chiffon and Lace Trimmed With Eosei and
Carrying a Suggestion of Grecian Mode. 1
young frills and flounces? All that Sometimes the costumes will have
the young girl has to remember la short and quite atraightly out coat
that she must dress girlishly. When with a centre fastening of braid
she comes to know that mamma and edged buttonholes and bratd-covered
grandmamma also ought to dress aa buttons which can be used right up
girlishly as they can there are no to the tdge of the cntlltary collar, or
dlshormonles left left undone for an inch or two at the
In the left hand corner is a real top, to show an under lining of white
girlish dress for girls. It Is of white moire. Then, Juxt orer the hl.m. the
chiffon, with silver lace bodice, a trim little garment ends Its career
wide tunle and three-colored silk fir- series of braid-edged scallops,'
die. The top of the bodice Is the tb ,k,rt following this decorative
surplice effect,. and Is caught up In emple at the hem. where, by the
the front with a pearl ornament. The wr lu measurements are exactly
whole effect la virginal.
four and a half yards. ThU is n
Oirliah Street
Dress of Light Weight
Figured Cloth Trimmed With
Over to the right, on the other atTle vhtch can, indeed, be depended
band, Is a girlish dress which mamma on t0 ,ult almost an woman blessed
could als owear with ft great deal ot wlb the "Un flurtt hica kelps to
ease. It is really a dancing dress. ,Ta n PPearance of youthfulnesa
It has a suggestion of the Greek In even wnen th woman's Calvary
It. and ia of white chiffon and lacs middle-age Is already In sight!
trimmed with roses. And sometimes, too. the navy blue
And down at the bottom of the mill be provided with the latest
pace la a girlish street dress which Tarlslan contrast of PtUraillt a-rev
mamma or ever grandmamma could in collar facings and cuffs, and. pos
wear, it is so adaptable. slblr. too. in the shirt blouse the
It almost goes without saying that popularity of this particular end
navy blue serge euitlng is respon- pretty scheme being foreshadowed,
slble for a goodly number of the Indeed, by the display of quite a
new full okirted models, whether number of new boots and shoes car-'
,,b. of co?t nd 'klrt' or rled wut ,n na lue place khl and
trimming of black military braid boots being made still more deco-
Which Daughter, Mother or Grandmother Alike Can Wear. X&Z TSSS! .