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Show Dress Really Matter of High Importance We may say, offhand-like, that we "don't care a thing about style." But Is that true? Test the next man who eaya so by auggestlng that he get out Uie old wedding suit of SO years ago, burnish It up a bit, and wear It for a month, lie won't Or test the next woman by suggesting that she go Into the attic and get the old bat of 20 years ago tiiat hat which was set atop the hair and was the antithesis of the smart turban of today. Will she do It? No; she cares, according to the Milwaukee Journal. And we all should care. For dress expresses our taste, our moral philosophy philoso-phy of life, our Inner selves, more than we realize. It Is about oil that others see of us as we go among them. To be neatly dressed, within a measure of correctness, shows our desire to be held In proper esteem by those around us. It shows, also, a desire not to offend of-fend their sensibilities by doing the outlandish thing. Styles have wandered a good deal. There has, perhaps, been too much of the pencock about them. But on the whole there has been progress better art, a more pleasing blend of colors, a keener sense of the appropriate and we have saved the best thoughts from year to year. |