TASTE IN DRESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2388, 4 February 1922, Page 4

TASTE IN DRESS.

It is an axiom of good descriptive writing that the adjectives employed should convey the exact sense of what has been seen —that it should be le mot juste. The word to employ in this connection would be “correct,” which dress should always be.

For when it is lacking in grace of line and sense of colour, when it carries features to exaggeration, when it hampers movement, and handicaps its wearer, it has achieved the ridiculous, and has reached a stage at which the individual of good taste will have nothing to say of it. And of all the charges that are difficult to explain away, that of being ridiculous, is the last of which any person would desire to be affixed to any attribute of himself or herself. If di’ess be made absurd, and absurd is synonymous with ridiculous, its wearer must accept her own participation in the scheme, and it will be she who is judged by the effect rather than the garments themselves. Perhaps, if more people gave heed to this fact we might be spared some of the exhibitions of robust nether limbs in white stockings, or lanky arms that have been denied the kindly veiling of sleeves.