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Show : Clothes Should Suit i Onfc's Personality v J A great deal is written and more said about dress in its various aspects. Wo hear animated discussions, even in these days, on the possibilities of colors, the position of the waist, the size of an arrahole; the claims of different dif-ferent sleeves are quite earnestly debated de-bated and reams devoted to tho weighty question of tub or barrel versus draped or plain where skirts are concerned have been doubtless as eagerly read as they have been liberally written. " Misfits. And yet, oddly enough, it is very rare to find any one seeing guidance as to which of the many wares spread ! before her by fashion will prove be- i coming, and rarer still to find any suggestion, sug-gestion, save tho most banal, given on the subject Perhaps this is because the fair land of France is by common consent tho home of fashion, with the Parisienne as its best exponent, and the Parisienne Parisi-enne above all things possesses an innate in-nate sense of clothes. Many fashion writers consciously or unconsciously model their methods as naturally on Paris as does the dress designer her, or his "creations." With women who "dress" in any true sense cf tho word it is quite superfluous to dwell en this side of the matter But that innate guiding sense certainly does not exist in every case or one would never seo beautiful clothes worn by the wrong woman, as is so( commonly the case. Care is a great factor in being well dressed. Every one should not wear the same type of garment. It has been left to the coat dress and chemise frock type of garment to demonstrate this very clearly. These are fashions evolved for the shapely creature. She should have well molded hips, curved shoulders, a decided de-elopmcnt de-elopmcnt of what we understand by the generic term of figure. And then she looks uncommonly well in this type of somewhat shapeless garment. But any and every girl and young woman, almost devoid of hips, thin and straight as a dart, wears it loo. And in doing so points the moral of this tale. For the result is at the best a lack of distinction amounting to dowdl-nesfe. dowdl-nesfe. At the worst well, one has only to go into any assemblage of ordinarily v"ell dressed people to see it. For those shapeless garments essentially essen-tially want rounded hips and well holded shoulders and pretty curves in-j in-j side them. They want, indeed, to suggest sug-gest that they cover a woman and not a Pticlc. no matter whether that stick be the most charmingly graceful willow wand or the veriest bean pole. And really and truly the slight, lithe, small hipped girl, provided only she ha3 well balanced shoulders, as indeed in-deed ia generally the case, has no cadse to complain. She has had her innings very decidedly, and for years fashions have been run off tho reel which suit her tlown to the ground, or could easily bo made to. There is 3Urely no need for her to snap up unthinkingly the one thing which so egrcgiously does not suit her. And, alas! not infrequently to glory in it, with the remark that "sho is ao slim she can wear anything." Importance of Choice. Moreover, she has a great many pretty vogues to choose from, if she only has the sense to choose them. Sometimes floppyplnaforu sides and shoulders givo a line which Is peculiarly pecu-liarly becoming and graceful to tho mortal who is more heavily built above than below. So engrossing and really Important is tho theme of choice that it should receive much greater care and attention atten-tion to the personality of the would-be wearers than It generally does. |