M. WORTH'S OPINIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 3

M. WORTH'S OPINIONS.

'.111 tho February number of "Harper's ' Bazaar" M. 'Worth Las ''another article on. tho 'art of dress. • It is.now; lie says, an exploded theory that ■ there' are-'certain '.colours' exclusively dediBated to the-brunette, and " other's to the .blonde.' ; When crude dyes' only were obtain- ; ablej it was* perhaps 'necessary, to say. to the dark woman, "i'or you there must exist only - yellow and . pale blue,"; and J to-the blonde, '„. "You must .look; upon no'other colour save green and-'light red." While,however, roughly ..speakihg, . white, is for. everybody, mauve ' for the very bluo tor .tne brunette,- ; and' .red for'the blonde,: I wo'uld : ' add .that ag&.should : ;be. circumspect ina do-' : •■ cision: as to colour V, schemes'.;' .' With i white, / black,.'grey; and purple at' her command, i . .why,-should ;the. woman',of - sixty insist upon v, pink,>;which. ; is certain.,to ' niake her. appear, years rand' years' older . than. .she really-' is? Pink is for youth; yet there are women of . sixty and upwar/ls who persist/in wearing it/ Green, ; too, is a'trying choice:'except lor the fresh complexion with plenty of colour. -' In' : some; gradations "of. shade and in isome lights it makes- a whito countenance, which purple would frame most beautifully, look ghastly in -. tho extreme.' '. - . . . - . ■ •. Instead of dressing ten or twenty years : younger than their age; . women past their. ..... youth ' would,-find it a /much';.wiser plan to dress-years'older , than-they real'y- are! For - what would .happen ? Why; just this;- that people \would say,' "Why does madamo wear . a dress-so . much too old for- her ?"' Surely 'that: is -'better, than -tho .remark, "Look at -.'/ /that old: woman pretending to-'. be a girl !". The happy medium, - however, can be.ac- - -quirM'.with-care ; and:.itaste. ' Al. Worth believes in : elbow sleeves in their proper_ place, which is not ' with a" ; ■ i,morriing-dr^r' , f-With' , ''K&-''a^s !, bare''to''hVr' ; dlbows ; at;' breakfast-time, a 'lady looks like her owu : cook-'Wr 'housemaid,'who'must'push' up heHsleevesUojmak'o her pastry-of do'her' scrubbing:''; -• '' By no'means' does'he disapprove of , them with the'evening gown when met by-a long: glove;; nor yet with the :afterrippn:toilette 1 of ceremony, likewise "in company "with the', glove.;"--But indoors' during'the day it* is not . desirable, that, curtailed sleeve,. wliicli display's # just that- portion of tho , is only-in'such rare rejyiy' pretty; for ltis either as flat as, a,board, covered with down,; of quito an.'ugly-red colour.;!; And' in . . no instance does- he like - the elbow'sleeve as ;v the accompaniment of a cloth dress; as it is hard in effect. " If: :'short sleeves ;, must be worn, they' should ,be made' of-lace and soft '-.fabrics, , .not: of. cloth'. But this' v ;\ f eas «n there, is a revulsion in favour of! very -' Jong sleeves that reach'do\viv "even, to tho Knuckles of the hands, • All the time .the craze for short sleeves was . ranipaut, tho best-dressed woman * refused ' , them for daytime'wear.'-; Crazes', are" not for' ; themr,.To rush: headlong into the melee with everybody, each one. ■ demonstrating; a new tad, ..be- it -suitable' or unsuitable,- is 'byV no' means :the sign of -the .'well-dressed: woman, feuclua one knows too. much .'about, herself. > aoyut the vulgar of the dernier . cri. that sings .another tune to-morrow. They know that .a. .woman. Qf. commanding "rank and great beauty who; dresses with .supreme individuality, can, impose, with no ■ effort of , her own, _• her . peculiar', stjle of dress on the .world at'large. ■ Such a, one, .should she have e long neck, -will- wear' a high collar, and, lo' *: everybody suit' with tragtcimic' ■ wifhrw —'^ cause . ' ' st> easily avoided with a little intelligence. 9 r - a ,5 u pßh l grbws / jtired of'.narrow skirts, and suddenly appears'in one that is round and full. And. next day-. ..the mßdes are changed en masse I, "Fashion,'!' so called, i - S01 ? e . v.- The. great Rachel,- ' 'y?®. °R. c 9i"' °nce..bought, but 'of .' sheer good nature, from an .ombarrassed' friend a . ... big piece of. yellow; .silk.'.; And .so striking . did the,famous Wress appear :in the result:' mg gown that alhiosit;every, .woman in the ' ® U( " en ce ordered; a similar costume; so that tho ; wholesale .>usmfortunate enough to' WiPlenty of: yellow; in .stock, made a'for- - „ created'ono ," '■ as^' ons womankind c.vei had—that of the overskirt, or tablier—; because.he saw how elegant was the figure' of a washerwoman who. had tucked :U p her hum- - bio frock over ;her:petticoat,-.. .