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How About This
If you have to adapt them considerably,
By Louise Williams
Vertical lines cancel horizontal ones in this cleverly designed frock.
WE were waiting for the third member of our luncheon party and improving the shining hour by taking notes on the fall and early-winter fashions as they were worn by those who passed. Slim, bobbed-haired girls with skirts up to their knees; slim, sleek-haired girls with great swathing coats that made even them look like barrels, and yet more girls in just about every variety of impossible, exoticlooking costume — and all of them young and slim. At last my companion could stand it no longer.
"My goodness, what about me?" she burst forth. "What am I going to wear this year? If I order clothes like those I see all around me I'll look as if I had on my daughter's things. I simply won't look as if I was helping the designers to see how much of a fool a woman can make of herself. They don't seem to know that there's a woman in the world who's over twenty, stands more than five feet two, or tips the scales above a hundred. What am I going to wear?"
And then Clara Kimball Young, for whom we'd been waiting, joined us, and my friend's problem was settled. So is yours, if you're Miss Young's type and want to answer the question of what to wear as she has.
As you probably know, she stands five feet six and weighs one hundred and thirty-five pounds. Her dark .eyes are famous, and so is her black hair. Her skin is creamy white ; just the tone of the strand of pearls which she sometimes wears clasped close about her throat. She is young, of course — beyond the "flapper" age, but well on the sunny side of thirty. Yet by studying the principles which she used in dressing, a woman much older than Miss Young, who happens to be her general type, can make the problem of adapting the winter styles a very simple one.
"Women ought to study optical illusions — those created by lines, I mean — and benefit by them," Miss Young remarked when our discussion of clothes was well under way. "Two lines of the same length can be made to look different if combined with lines that carry the eye either inward or outward. That principle applied to clothes by means of the lines used in trimming, can do a good deal for a woman, especially for one who wants to look either thinner or stouter than she is. Lines of embroidery, of drapery, or of trimming can be used in this way.
"You see, I believe that one's worst points should be considered first. Dress so that they aren't noticeable, and the good ones will take care of themselves. And lines are more effective than anything else in changing one's general appearance." And later she showed us how her new clothes bore out the first of her theories.
Smart and most becoming will be street frock like one! recentlv designed for Miss Young, and pictured at the top of the
In this gown the train anc shoulder straps give fft< effect of length.