DRESS IDEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 14

DRESS IDEAS.

Some of the More Frequent Misbeliefs

There are seven great misbeliefs in tlreae, eaye a writer in the "Dailv Jlail." 1. That gentlemen prefer tailor-mades. The classic suit, like some women is <i way* right. And therefore' safe and "I'll, it shows regrettable lack of the imagination, adventure and flair which makes a woman noticeably well dressed. And believe what you will to the contrary, a man does like to «ee heads turning in a restaurant. He does lik* Kill Hi °"V i V' eno »l»-«"'kln0 h *ts and frilly bits of fun—even on his sister.

2. That the red-haired should never wear pinke and purples.

There's nothing more striking than a clash. The red-haired girl who sticks to browns and green* (particularly emer-ald-why will they do it, how tired one r«Tn + » ,t! V Sthrowi " g her opportunities down the drain.

We, with our plain brown hair, have to work hard for unusual colour effects We buy a ginger suit and wear it with a purple eweater, but still look pretty ord.narv While you, with your bright auburn head, have only got to buy a very ordinary and inexpensive pink chilfoii evening dre« e to be called the oe«t-dressed woman at the dance. 3. That one should always dress to type.

' P to a point, dressing t o tvpe is necessary; and not to know your limitations can lead to pretty queer result*, rhe w.deeyed marigold who tries to look like one of Epstein e models is merely going to look sillv.

But the Kpstein model dressed in the wide eyed marigolds clothes would be something that any botanist would be glad to find in a wood. Reverse yourself it you can, if von dare.

Ihe open-air girl should try for once abandoning her good tweed suits and dressing ritzily; she who m known for the ritzines* of her dothe* should experiment with a five-bob cotton frock

4. That the fat should wear coats. B "

It'e an old and weary dodge. The belief is that the fatter you are the looser you should wear your clothesmore draperies, jabots anil long flowing line*. And the unvarying fail me never of the fat person is the swagger coat. It's supposed to hide the waist that i«n't. and obscure the hips that are Actually, the wual effect it has w to make the wearer look like a bell tent with its full complement of soldiers inside.

ii. That the blue-eyed look best in blue.

Mummy dreswen her little darling in «ky blue to match the colour of her eye*, and the little darling goes on wearing blue for the rest of her life. The Saxons as a race have a large percentage of blue eye*, *o the result i* very wearisome ell over the British Isles. She who would dre*s well cannot afford to do the expected thing. Contrasts, change, the colour combination that is almost wrong—those are the effective things.

«. That the ehort ehould wear heele. c

People who eaw Sarah Bernhardt act have elwaye been amazed when told that she wasn't ae much as sft. The effect of height ie very mnch a matter of carriage and pofcw, and high heel* make it extremely difficult to walk well. A short person gain** much more by holding heiwelf well and walking gracefully end easily than by balancing herself precariously on Eiffel Tower heck, which tend to make her poi«e forward. 7. That as long as your nnderclothe* are good yon can carry off the rest.

ThU belief wm fledged by nannies in the nurserie*. They need to tell tlieir charges—end probably s<till do—that they miwt alway« be prepared to l>e run over in the utreet. carried unconscious into a home, and undressed by etrangere . . . "and what would they think if yon had tied a knot in the elastic of vcrar knickers ?"

So we ell grow up in a false confidence engendered by spending more on our underclothes than we do on onr frock*. Expensive underclothes may, and do, give one a very satisfactory feeling, but I defy anyone to detect from miteide appearance* whether I am wearing eilk-Mttin. miwlin or rags. Xo, it's the unfashionable frock by which one ie judged.