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Show Good Advice to Women How To Shop Given by Studio Head Ladies, if you want to dress better, take hubby along with you when you go shopping for that new dress or evening gown. That's the advice of Edith Head, chief fashion designer for Paramount Studio, who contends that "one reason so many women wom-en dress badly is that they don't listen ot their husband's advice." r unnermure, ivuss neau ue-lieves ue-lieves husbands should demand that their wives look almost as well groomed at breakfast as they do at a bridge party. While they don't need to doll up in their Sunday best, nevertheless she feels that the Mrs. should wear a becoming dress and take pains not to look like a mess at the breakfast table. Carelessness Care-lessness about dress is an easily eas-ily acquired habit and the first letdown, says Miss Head, is like the first shot of dope. Secret Is Planned Shoping According to her, the secret of better dressing for young and old on a moderate income is planned shopping. Before a woman buys a dress she should know exactly where and when she expects to wear it and shouldn't look at anything that doesn't fit the need. The less a woman has to spend the more simple should be her dresses which always can be brightened with colorful accessories. acces-sories. Any woman can be well dressed the year 'round, Miss Head believes, with these three dresses, plus accessories including includ-ing a coat, as a basic wardrobe: 1 A play or two-piece dress; 2 A day dress, one- or two-piece; two-piece; 3 an afternoon, dinner, or evening combination. |