ART OF WEARING CLOTHES.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVI, Issue 43, 31 May 1935, Page 3

ART OF WEARING CLOTHES.

SECRETS OF A WOMAN'S

CHARM.

If you feel uncomfortable and dowdy in tailored suits, don't wear them. Choose instead a simple frock (this year is a clear, soft colour) and a long, dark coat, very slender and trimmed with flat fur. You will have more confidence in yourself:—and that is the most infectious thing in the world.

If you feel at your, best in frills and softly feminine" frocks, don't choose them for a business interview. It is always easy to compromise— and it is often profitable. Wear a hat that you know is flattering, even if it is slightly coquettish, have a touch of organdie or lace at your neck, let your shoes and gloves be irreproachable and plain—and half the battle will have been won before you have crossed the room. One of the cleverest and nicest women I know has fought very hard for her success. It has made her rather hard, but she has now reached the stage where she could and should rely on charm rather than aggressiveness, i 4 She does her best, but for years she] has worn the severest tweeds and ithe most sternly practical of hats, and apparently it has never occurred to her that they create such an impression ,of brusque efficiency that every time she sees anybody she wastes at. least half an hour in breaking down this atmosphere which she herself has created. She doesn't realise that she should forswear everything that suggests hardness. If she did, she would be astonished to find how helpful and friendly people can be.

Study yourself. Bring out and examine that dim mental picture which is the You you dream about. You^ will have to be practical to bring it into line with the life you are living and to look at yourself dispassion-

ately. If you do this, if you will devote a little time to finding out what colours suit you and what effect they have on your temperament; if you will let yourself respond to your clothes, as you would to a story beautifully told, or a finely acted play, you will have discovered one of the

greatest secrets of a woman's charm

Know yourself! And then forget yourself. That is the secret-of success —in dressing, as in life.