“WORTH” ON DRESSING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 831, 22 March 1878, Page 3

“WORTH” ON DRESSING.

—o— Worth is a tallish man, with a hig, clever head and very prominent forehead. His brown eyes are singularly shrewd in expression, and their seizure of detail is surprising—that is, for a man. As a rule, men have no more eye for detail than owls have for the sun. Worth takes you in at a glance, and knows what' your style ought to be, which is such a comfort. When I go to a dressmaker, 1 don’t care to “avoik my passage,” as Bob would say. I want to order a harmony iu one or two colours, and to encounter brains equal to the occasion. Worth’s taste, when allowed Bill play, is irreproachable. *• t pre r er simplicity to j everything else.” he says, “ but there are women who don’t believe in tho value of a dross unless it is loaded with trimming. I They drive me mad, for they won’t take advice. Now, what is becoming to one

person is hideous when worn by anotlior. I study to make the best out of the subject given me, as, unfortunately, we can’t have people made to order —can we ? If 1 bad my way, all women should be slight, graceful, and pretty. Then, dressing them would be an artistic pleasure. A dress should never overpower the wearer. It should merely be an appropriate frame for a charming picture— bringing out the beauties of the picture, but never distracting attention from it. ho few women understand this. Why, when 1 can make a costume for less money than has been agreed upon, I actually annoy clients by telling them so. They think it cannot be as handsome as it ought to be, and they' would rather have more material added, however much the design may be marred, than pay less. I assure you this is a fact. Consequently, when 1 meet ladies who know that dressing is an art, I take very great satisfaction in haring them as patrons. It isn’t every woman who knows how to wear a dress. When I have done my best, I try to make my client do her best by seeing her walk and sit down. To walk with stylo is rare enough, but when it cornea to being able to sit down in a dress properly—well, there are not many equal- to that, I can tell yon. Then women think they ought rather to have a number of drosses, however hideous, than wear one dress, however becoming. There never was a greater mistake. If your frame is appropriate, stick to it. Don't be getting out of it and trying experiments. 1 have just made a dress for Mme. Nillson, in which sho looks better than I over saw her before, and T have begged her to wear that dress constantly in Russia if she Wants to produce a most'charming effect. As she is sensible, I think she will take my advice, which, you perceive, is against my interest, but, good gracious me, money is not my only object. Art is intended to beautify nature, not to deform it.”