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Show WHAT A GIRL'S CLOTHES TELL ABOUT HER i In an article on "A Girl and Her Clothes," published In the March Woman's Wo-man's Home Companion, apears the following: J "You may not speak a word to me, P but the manner and line of you the gentle or brusque, gracious or awkward awk-ward little trlckg of body, tho way you walk, tho hat you wear, the clothes, tho gloves, the color and fashion of them the manner of wearing wear-ing them all these along with the look In your eyes, aro expressing you and are saying to me: 'Sho belongs to this class, or that.' 'She Is this manner of porson, or that.' 'Seo, sho Is carcles.' 'See, she Is tired and worn. 'She Is a person of good Judgment', Judg-ment', or whimsical; dependable, a person of lovollness;' unlovellness; of taBtc, or lack of taste. Don't you understand what wo are saying to you? Theso things seem to say: Look at usl Read usl As plain as day! "Whether wo realize It or not wo are perpetually expressing ourselves and our clothes speak for us condemn us or recommend us, pralso us or blame us, as plainly as though they spoko with voices like our own. I have seen girls apply to business houses, seeking positions, and I havo seen them refused good positions and they never guessed the reason. Some of them brought with them reasonably rea-sonably good lottetrs of recommendation recommenda-tion saying perhaps that they wero capable, willing. But of what avail was that when all the while, huge masses of yellow puffs, dowdy , clothes, low nocked shirtwaists and tawdry imitation Jewelry, badly chosen cho-sen and designed, wero saying as plain as could be, 'She has no Judg ment. Sho does not know truo values. She is frivolous. Could you trust a girl to bo careful of your accounts who Is so evidently careless of her her own? "Then the kind bcartcdness of the employer, perhaps hesitates. After all, might she not do, this llttlo girl making a pitiful enough showing as sho sits waiting for an answer? Isn't It right to glvo her a chanco any way? . jgX "Well, I've told you tho truth, the ' r"'J puffs seem to say, you can heed It or not as you choose, that Is your affair. af-fair. You wouldn't bo advised by mo the hugo hat speaks, looking a llttlo Insulting; don't blame me, I gave you fair notice I And tho Jingling bangles and mock silver purso and the vanity box clank a little fretfully as tho girl rises. It's no fault of ours If your business Is neglected I Don't blame usl Wo warned youl they scorn to say." |