Show It Evening Chat Chit wr BOTH O OAM T rr costs so much more to be well oil I dressed than It used to Is b tho the I Irr I per perpetual cry of or all tho the women who J. J make e any pretensions s to smartness And It costs so 80 much more to tl tobe tobo bo be boen even en en dress dressed 11 than n It used to Is Js th the wall all of their less leas pretentious sisters sistels And both am art decidedly Inclined to blame this sad Md state of affairs affair upon th the tho high prices prevailing everywhere e t. Hut Hul docs does all the blame belong there For myself 1 do not think so AO It seems to me that the reason we so much morn more money upon our clothes than w we did dill ten years yearn ago ruo and andare andare are arc still no better dressed Is 11 largely larRel a matter of or ridiculously Inflated standards What do 1 t mean Well let me tell you ou a little personal experience of or my own wardrobe to illustrate Il il- il lustrate Some years ears ago a 0 friend frend of mine had imad hada imada a pretty black and white check silk for Cor Cora fora a H summer afternoon and dress drossy dressy house gown n 1 always admired It Immen Immensely el and this year jear ear decided to have one myself my my- self I confided as ns much to m my dressmaker But will It t be dressy enough for what you ou want she asked I r thought the question absurd at the time but since then thon I have ha seen fleen so 50 m many ny women bound on Informal calls or shopping shopping shopping shop shop- ping expeditions wearing blun and white whito or black an and white check silks that thal I have been forced to realize that tho time gown I planned under the present style conditions con con- Is proper for a general utility dress dreps but absolutely Impossible for a n gown so Now ow that little Incident scents to lo me meto meto meto to epitomize time Iho reason wh why It costs so much more to be 00 well dressed than It Jt used to lo It Isn't that black and white whit check silk costs much more than It did ten years ears cars n ago o. o It la If Just because the thc black and white check cluck silk gown that used lcd to bo be a n rather dressy dress gown sown suitable for Cor afternoon afternoon after after- noon functions has now descended to tho the rank of general utility and street wear gown To fill nil Its ILlS place place- D. D as afternoon gown om something proportionately above c It In ex expense expense ex- ex pense and elaborateness must of or course bo he substituted and In order ornel to maintain It Its rank as time the dr dressiest dress of or all all tho the evening gown Iown must al also o become becom correspondingly corre corre- more elaborate and expensive e Do you ou remember how hows dressed up you ou used 11 to feel In your Clur best white waist live five or six sK years a ago o It W was S a n dainty little affair embroidered and lace trimmed and when you OU wore It you ou felt that you could go JO to a swell afternoon tea or dine at a high class restaurant without looking look took looking ing IllS at all nil dowd dowdy Today In that same sarno waist you ou would not feel crl at nil all dressed Ires sed up You put It on for ah aim Informal call or n a shopping excursion excursion sion but you would feel eel very en much underdressed un- un If It you ou wore It to a formal Cormal function or to dine at the dressy I rant A woman woman who knows knot the question o of clothes from Z A-Z writes in a recent mag- mag about comparative o values In much this vein eln One Ono may today in Paris buy tho time Identical Identical identical Iden Iden- waists waist that were for sale ten years ago figO at the Identical prices but with tho change of oC fashion has come a corresponding corresponding corre corre- spending change In the uses to to which the time same me garment Is put Thc rho thirty or for tor ty dollar waists o of that thal would be bevery Cr very cry pretty prett today but one w would uld wear them now where tho the cl eight ht dollar waists were worn before In order to bo be dressed at about the same Harne degree of r smartness That seems to to me mo to be he the cru crux c o of tho very ory high cost of at dressing well that w we complain o of today Not ot that tat materials or workmanship are arc areso areso so much more expensive but tut simply that we have o moved mo all nil our standards up lip one pe peg Will VIII the they g go up a p PP peg g more mor In tho the next decade Will we soon wear fragile rn lIe lIn lingerie waists In the morning and to business ls and take taketo to chiffon and embroidery for simple afternoon afternoon aft aft- gowns gOVons k kAnd And If we do what will t be bo left for our very ery l I est hest st evening dresses And how long IonS are we going to keep Keep up this absurd quickening of off tho the pace Seems to me there are re a n few Cew pretty good questions for homo home and club glon amon among women C. I r r |