THE ART OF DRESSING WELL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1638, 16 November 1916, Page 4

THE ART OF DRESSING WELL.

Many women make the grave mistake of supposing that being well dressed all depends upon the power of the purse. Nothing of (lie soil, however! It is practically all a matter of having good taste to start with, and then knowing just what suits one. Stout figures must avoid light-fitting and undraped bodices, for the full figures require flowing lines; no skimping can be tolerated, while to dress in too young a fashion makes one look old. Not only matrons, but every woman, ought to remember that nothing' is move elegant than simplicity in dress, nor anything in worse taste than over-elaboration. Some women dress as if they were halflength portraits, while another woman thinks she looks taller by lengthening her waist, forgetting that what she adds above she cuts off below. A long glass should be and she should study herself well; and having ascertained what sails her, remain fanhfui to her style, for each woman should most certainly understand her own style, accept it, and let the fashion of her gown be built upon it. Because certain fashions and colours are in vogue is no reason why every woman should wear them. Better by far is it to wear a plain gown of the colour that suits you, than wear aiT elaborate dress of a fashionable colour that does not suit yon. Also, one of the surest ways of looking well dressed is to keep to one colour for hat, dross, coat, etc. An unselected mixture of colours at once produces an ill-dressed effect.