TEN DRESS COMMANDMENTS.

Shannon News, 10 September 1926, Page 4

TEN DRESS COMMANDMENTS.

1. Bgware of making yourselves ridiculous by clinging to flappcrdom too long. 2. If you can't, be pretty be interesting. 3. If you are not pretty, don't try to make yourself an imitation of some pretty girl you know, but dress to be interesting. 4. AH" pretty women can't be interesting,' but an interesting woman can outshine all pretty ones. 5. Don't be afraid to be different. Make capital of your defects. 6. Cultivate a colour sense. . 7. Learn restraint in dress. 8. Understand the value of simplicity. 9. And dress to be interesting. 10. It is better to have one good well-made dress than half o dozen mediocre gowns. Those are the ten dress commandments which are endorsed by Lady Duff-Gordon, but she adds a word of warning regarding No. 5, which she declares is rather dangerous, to broadcast. "Being different," might lead to terrible , combinations of design and colour, by those who have no sense of colour or line of fitting the occasion with the gown. But with out going very far wrong and from the straight path of the present uniform that is worn by rich and poor alike, you can be "different" in your little adjuncts. Once upon a time a great 'different' could be obtained in the way the hair was arranged, but to-day thai "difference" can be ruled .out with this everlasting sameness of bobbed and shingled and cropping of hideousness. You must put your own persontlitv and thought into "being different." Just beware not to be ridiculous; that is the main thing.