WOMAN'S TASTE,
A woman who has made a careful study of feminine adornment writes : How many women lack discrimination in the choice of colours aud of styles to suit them!
If you have a round fat. face do not accentuate your defects by wearing a circular pomp.adour, side comb? to broaden your head, or an ornament over one oar. Brush your hair back — not tight — leave it fluffy, but still brush it back; pile it high, making a pompadour over your forehead if you wish, at any rate leaving bhe hair there much looser than at the sides. Wear a high narrow comb in the back. Wear such a one even ii another sort is later style. It is not better style for you. If you wear an ornament, wear an nigretto, or at least a flower or a pompon placed high. On tho other hand, if your face is thin or long, if your forehead is high and narrow, diess your hair, if not low, at least broadening out on the top oi your head. Wear it wide about your face, a pompadour, if you like. If not thnt, then loose fluffiness, kept very light by frequent shampooing. A beautiful woman whose head and face are narrow aud long would lose the charm that maKes her beautiful if she wore her hair in an unbecoming way. But she keeps it fluffy ; it has a natural wave, aud she parts it as' her mother did before her, and then lets it wave back to a loosely-coiled figure eight. She never changes its style, and she is wise.
And it is not only shape of head and face that should determine, but general style as well. Just a word as to choice of colours. Thero are so many good choices to be made that J will ler. them alone, and deal in a few "do nots." If you are large and light, or pa'e and colourless, let grey alone, unless it be tho very dark.
White may be becoming^ to you, but both thnt and the grey will make you look largo. '
Any of the tans are dangerous. They may be relieved by combinations with other colours, preferably • blown, and' thua their danger lessened, but the results are dubious.
If you are dark and 'have a high colour wear blue or brown or, if red, let it be very dark. You may wear tan, too, and if you are not sallow black* will be very becoming. "' Pf^'you • wish to' heighten yonr colour tnko pink. Do not hesitate to use it, even if you should chance to be no longer very young.
WOMAN'S TASTE,
Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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