| Show Yes a great many women dress U please men Some of them want to and Dress to some of them have to In the first class you may put the marrying women and in Please the second I class the married women OJ course there arc women who retain their individuality the e dividuality in dress ns in other matters Men whether married or singlestrongminded if you will awl yet not claiming to be men equals because they believe they are mens BLANCHE superiors By McCABTIIV But to return to their more numerous sisters who dress to please men Maud or Gladys or Mabel in love with her lover pleases him and herself by buying u hat under which both of them can sit comfortably and her sister in love with her suitors money only is equally adorable in deferring to his taste As a general thing at this stage of his wooing the enamored joung man elects to like anything any-thing his lady chooses to wear but after marrying he may grow critical or tyrannical or stingy and then his wifes attire reflects his change of spirit She still dresses to please him because she must but she no longer pleases herself If he likes n little hat she imint get one though it makes a fright of her if he is freakish enough to prefer a merry widow brand sIlt must walk along under it style or no style This is the reason why an assembly of married women is so often a dress parade of dowdies There is a certain class of women who never had a mind of thcji own and never will have one They inflict Fred or Georges or Jacks tastes and opinions on every one Fred may not know purple from scarlet but ho is quoted as nn authority on the becomingness of particular colors and Jack is falsely accused of persuading n tall skinny woman to wean stripes or a short stout woman to affect big plaids Such women drag in the eternal masculine us a final court of appeals to decide anything from chops and steaks to gloves and shoes Its a mental defect Then again there arc women who dress to please themselves simply and solely and there are others who give no thought to dress Their code is this home What docs it how at signify we dress here where everybody every-body knows us Away from home What does it signify how we dress here where nobody knows us A comfortable code Do women dress to spite one another Occasionally yes Generally no n I k C Women are not the spiteful sex y surely ff I |
