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Show FashioosADThat Save Some Women's Beauty MoBt women, measured by an idoal Btandard of beauty, are too tall or too thin, too short or too stout; they do not stand well, they walk badly; or thoy have Bpollo'd tholr complexions by hook or by crook something is wrong. Tho droBBranker'B urt Ib to cover those dofoots bo iar as possible, to draw attention away from defects toward the good points of the figiro, says a writer in Good Health. The ideally beautiful woman can wear anything from a Greek gown to a peasant costume, and look divine. But with very few exceptions allowed for the perfect woman, designs in dress must be adapted before they can be adopted to advantage. Fashion plates are drawn upon beautifully tall and fair women to show tho proper proportions to be observed in the designs de-signs themselves, according to the ' ' " i mind of the designing artist. j j Some designs arc hopelessly bad at the beginning. Designs, however good i In themselves, are not meant to be slavishly copied. A woman six feet tall may wear a dress skirt eight or Ijj ten yards- wide at the bottom, but the i dumpy little woman who is rs broad as she is long will be a ridiculous fig- ure in the same enormous sweep of hj skirt. I |