DRESSING TO LOOK YOUNG.
When women puss middle age and see their personal charms fading (or fancy they see them fading—a woman who nas arrived at middle age should have established a set of charms entirely independent of complexion and hair), they seek desperately to atone for shortcomings elegant dressing. The most melancholy object in life" is a fashionably-dressed woman in a costume manifestly too young for her and with her face carefully “made up” to hide traces of age. Don’t do it; it is a losing fight. Every year will make you more grotesque, more of an anchronism, less a good, plain woman, which the world needs so badly. Really sensible women never at any time try to conceal the marks of coming age. As gradually a s these marks appear on their faces they adapt their dress and manners to suit them ’l’he re arc then no sudden disclosures. Women should take this lesson to heart, and not try with such desperate courage to keep young. It is a misdirected zeal.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2481, 17 May 1909, Page 8
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