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Show DRESSING THE PART Many Women ITow "Want to Look Like Automobile Riders. "At the risk of offending some of my customers," remarked ono of tho department depart-ment managers of a tremendous department depart-ment store, as he deftly swung a bunch of steam plows Into a corner to make room for a case of watered ellks. "regardless "re-gardless of the trade Instinct which I've been cultivating. I'll let you In on a secret. We can hacdly keep up with what we call the demand for automobile dressing dress-ing for women. Whether such dressing Is becoming or not Is no longer regaraed an Important: It Is tho thing, and that Is all there Is to It, "And It Is tho thing becauao goggles pushed on top of a hat, three or four veils and a spacious dust-colored coat stamp their possessor as a lady of high degree. Wherever she appears, on the piazzas of seaside hotels, at luncheon or In tho shopping district. It Is taken for granted that ahc arrived and will depart In a large, varnished touring-car with brass trimmings, and she makes the women who aro not thus arrayed look as If they wore traveling on trolley transfers. trans-fers. "Consequence? Consequence Is that every other woman Is buying goggles and veils and King Arthur gloves and roamv saffron wraps. We're selling them to shoppers who have never been closer to an automobile than the toot of the honk horn took them. It's the yachting crazo over again In another form. You remember remem-ber there were days when most of the Willies on tho streets had Just stepped ashore from their yachts. They had everything except the yachts with them. They wore white duck troiisers, caps with glazed visors and yellow eagles, a blank expression, and, perhaps,- some of thorn were lucky enough to be toting un-punched un-punched meal tickets In the pockets of their blue coats. Their pallor was duo to too much poker In the cabin "Well, the real yachtsmen took to kicking kick-ing off their sea togs In port, nnd tho imitation had to go out of business I fancy life real automobllo owners will play the same game sooner or later They'll leave tho marks' of tho beasti their touring paraphernalia, under the seats of their machines, or In tho garages when they roach their destinations Then the goggles won t go goggling off tho countors faster than wo can put them on: but Just now we have to stop llvelv to All orders." Providence Journal. |