Show I TlieFit of Gowns in the Back The first thing 1 say to a woman says an authority on physical culture and Its attendant ethics when she comes it is to me for advice and suggestion Turn your back to me I Is1 remarkable how few women present a poodlooking back straight and shapely with shoulder bae tips in line elbows not poking hips even and no protuberant shoulder blloes In one of her stories Mrs Cruger makes a clever fashionable woman who Is displaying dis-playing a Worth gown to some fred ask anxiously Is the back right and wfcen told that it is the perfection of elegant ele-gant fit in the back say with relief Then I shall keep it One has so many resources to conceal an Illfitting front ones arms and hands a bow of ribbon and the like but the back iShopeless and must be above reproach or words of similar effect Mrs Cruger is quite right and she might have gone further The back is not only the crucial test of n womans gown it Is also of her generjl aipearance A good back Is very rare Watch women on the street and you will be surprised to see how few will own oneNew York World h |