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Show Too Much French Say Americans Overdressed en make the sad mistake of spoiling spoil-ing what may otherwise be a lovely thing-. They use so many added details that they hide themselves. them-selves. Your eyes become so involved in-volved in studying each thing that you are wholly aware of what is being said . Choose your accessories and trimmings wisely. Remember, Binr plicity is the keynote of good design and also of good grooming. Vidawright The French believe that American Ameri-can women overdress, and this is ' usually ture. One famous designer design-er said she had several customers I who used to break her heart regularly by getting clothes from Vr. and then say the last fitting, "What kind of jewelry shall I wear with this?" She felt she had created a dress which was com-olcte com-olcte except for the right woman wom-an inside of it, and then to have her ask what she should add to her finished creation! It was cause for dispair. This does not mean that added decoration is not good but generally, gen-erally, women wear decoration on clothes that have no relation to either the dress or the woman inside in-side the dress. Look at your clothes. Does each dress or suit call for something additional in the way of accent or detail? Will the wearing of earrings, pins, necklace or flowers do just the thing it should do to enhance you? Or are you making a signboard sign-board of yourself to display these things on? This is just what many women do. They use so much added decoration that they are really hidden, and the design and original purpose is lost. Some of the most beautiful gowns are devoid of any trimming trim-ming except a self trim, the beauty of the dress is in the cleverly cut and draped design and is worn, most effectively, unadorned un-adorned or with one added note of accent to compliment the whole picture. Yet so many wom- |