WORTH ON DRESSING.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2816, 22 February 1878, Page 2

WORTH ON DRESSING.

Worth is a talliih man, with a big, oUv«r head and rery prominent forehead.». His brown eyes are singularly shrewd in expression, and their seiaure of detail is surprising—that is, for a man. As a rule, men hare no more eye for detail than owls hare for the sun. Worth takes jtm in at a glance and knows what your style ought to be, which is inch a comfort. When I go to a dressmaker, I don't care to "work my passage," as Bob would say. I want to order « harmony in one or two. colors, and to encounter dMu equal to the occasion. Worth's r «atte, when allowed full play, is irreproachable. "I prefer simplicity to; everything else," he says, ."bat there are women who don't believe in the' value ef a dress unless it is loaded with,4rimnriug. They drive me mad for they won't lake advice. Now, what is becoming to one. Fsrson is hideous when worn by another, study, to make the best out of the subject given me, as, unfortunately, we can't have people made to order, can ire > If J had my way, all women should be alight* graceful and pretty. Then dressing them would bean artistic pleasure. A dress should never overpower the wearer- It should merely be an appropriate fraese for a charming picture, bringing out the bean* ties of the picture, but never dittraeting attention from it. 8o few. women under* stand this. Why, when I find I can make a costume for less money than baa been agreed upon, I actually annoy client* by tolling them so. They think it eauaot be as handsome as it ought to be, and they wonld rather hare more material added, however much the design may be marred, than pay lest. I assure you skii is a fact. Consequently, when I meet ladies who know that dressing is an art* I take very great satisfaction in baring them as patrons. It isn't every woman who knows how to wear a dress. When J hare done my best, I try to make my client do her best by seeing- her walk and sit down. To walk with style is rare enough, but when it 'comes to beiflf...... able to sit down in a dress properly f —well, there are not many equal .to that, 1 I can tell you. Then women think .they ought to hare a number of dresses, however hideous, than wear one dress,'howerer becoming: l There never was a*'gceales mistake. If your frame is appropriate, stick to it. Don't be getting out of it and trying experiments. I hare just made a dress for Mme. Nilsson, in which she looks better than I erer saw her before, and I have begged her to wear that dren constantly in Russia if she wants to pr«. duce a most charming effect, At she is sensible, I think she will take my adriee, which, you perceive, is against m/mtereeg but, good gracious me, money is nernr.. >„. only object. Art is intended to beautify nature, not to deform it."