Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1915, Page 15

Puote - By Joe. Fepem and mothers being mistaken for daughters, it is really a gquestion just how & young girl should dress really to be different from mamms or grandmamma, Unquestionably the craze for dancing has helped largely to bring the new girlish note into all the dresses. Every one dances, and the stiff, staid oM fashions for women past forty are not at all har moufous with the positions of the modern dances, nor can one be graceful fn them. Imagine one dolng the fox trot in the stiff satins that the lady of over forty used to wear! Personally I like the new girlish dresses—be- cause age is in most cases only a matter of the ‘mind, and the younger;we feel the younger we look. Wl‘fll grandmothers dressing likeé young girls A Girlish Dress for Girls. White Ohiffon, With Silver Lace Bodice, Tunic and Three-Oolored Silk Girdle. By Lady Duff-Gordon (‘‘Lucile’) 1 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 is still girlish. She kuows just how to wear these, and one always feels an atmosphere of springtime about her. Of course, I am not advo- cating a wrinkled person to wear the ehort dresses of childhood—but what I do mean is 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 her out of the running, as you Americans say, long before she ought to be. ‘Therefore I advocate girlishness in dress wher- ever it can be displayed. And as for young girls—what difference does it make if memma or grandmamma does wear thelr ADY DUFF.GOR- DON, the famous “La- cile” of London, end foremost creator of fashions in the world, writes each week the fashion article for this news- paper, presenting all that is newest and best in styles for well-dressed women. ~ Lady Duff-Gordon's Paris establishment brings her into clgse touch with that centre of fashion. Girlish Street Dress of Light Weight B Figured Oloth Trimmed With Kid, ‘Which Daughter, Mother or Grandmother Alike Gan Wear, L hG 1 ofy wff=Soroen. AR » Another Girlish Dress Adaptable to Older Women. It Is of White Ohiffon and Lace Trimmed With Roses and Carrying a Buggestion of Greclan Modes. young frills and flounces? All that the young girl has to remember is that she must dress girlishly. When she comes to know that mamma and grandmamma also ought to dress as girlishly as they can there are no dishormonies left. In the left hand corner is a real girlish dress for girls. It 1s of white chiffon, with silver lace bodice, & wide tunic and three-colored silk gir- dle. The top of the bodice is the surplice effect, and {s caught up in the front with a pear! ornament. The whole effect is virginal, Over to the right, on the other hand, is a girlish dress which mamma could als owear with a great deal of ease. It is really a dancing dress It has a suggestion of the Greek in it, and is of white chiffon and lace trimmed with roses. And down at the bottom of the page is a girlish street dress which mamma or ever grandmamma could wear, it is so adaptable. It almost goes without saying that navy blue serge suiting is respon- sible for a goodly number of the new full ckirted models, whether these be of the coat and skirt, or the allin-one “coat-dress” variety, & trimming of black military braid being almost as inevitable as it fs, certainly, and always, effective. Com gt Sometimes the costumes will have & short and quite straightly cut coat with a centra fastening of braid- edged buttonholes and brald-covered buttons which can be used right up to the edge of the military collar, or left undone for an inch or two at the top, to show an under lining of white moire. Then, just over the hips, the trim little garment ends its career in a series of brald-edged scallops, the skirt following this decorative example at the hem, where, by the way, its measurements are exactly four and a balt yards. This is a style which can, indeed, be depended on to suit almost any woman blessed with the slim figure which helps to give an appearance of youthfulness even when the woman's Calvary— widdle-age—is already in sight! And sometimes, too, the navy blus will be provided with the latest Parisian contrast of wmitraille grey, in collar facings and cuffs, and, pos- sibly, too, in the shirt-blouse, the popularity of this particular and pretty scheme being foreshadowed, indeed, by the display of quite a number of new boots and shoes car’ ried out in navy blue glace kid and grey cloth or suede, some of the boots belng made still more deco- rative by a device of black bralding at elther side of the laced fronts. RID my ihe St Comrmsy s Brtas Righte a / Rearven ™\