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Show COPY THE DUCHESS' DISTINCTIVE WAYS Some women find their chief interest in the duchess of Windsor in her influence on styles. As Ruth Millett suggests, however, clothes ere only smell part of the duchess' charm. By such gestures of interest as she males above, to adjust the tie of England's ei-k'ng, has she become a figure who rewrote history, for in so doing she metes oven a ruler feel important in her world. By RUTH MILLETT Do clothes make the woman? Girls and women all over the world are answering "Yei" every time they buy a "Wally dress." And that Is at frequent intervals for copies of the duchess' clothes sell 'like hot cakes on a com morning. The reason isn't simply that the duchess of Windsor knows her clothes. Too many other women, nearer home, dress with as much We, the Women acumen. The woman who pulls a 17.9 "Wally frock" over her head thinks she has borrowed the secret of success. More Than Clothes She hasn't. Unfortunately clothes don't make the woman. Life would be ao simple if they did. The women wom-en who are waiting breathlessly for the duchess to get back home, so that they can study her clothes first hand, had better use the opportunity oppor-tunity studying the duchess. If they do that they will probably prob-ably find that the poor girl who managed by her own ingenuity to get herself a title, a front row place in today's spotlight, and a paragraph para-graph or two in tomorrow's history books, owes little of her success to clothes. Rerrrt of Success They may find that Individuality is the duchess' big asset. An individuality in-dividuality that kept her distinctly distinct-ly herself until she was one to be patterned after instead of letting her become a carbon copy of some other personality. And they may discover that her charm like the charm of Scarlet O'Hara, with whom the southern-born southern-born duchess seems to have some qualities in common lies mostly in her ability to make shy men feel appreciated and admired. There's always a place In the spotlight spot-light for the woman who can do that. And she doesn't need beauty, fine clothes, or great wit for props. It Is just an ability to get over to the men who need It the ages-old, ages-old, but always new, assurance that they are wonderful. A careful study of the duchess of Windsor may show American women wom-en that it is that ability they had better copy instead of a Paris made wardrobe. |