TRUE DRESS SENSE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 11

TRUE DRESS SENSE.

ft is not often we get an encouraging word from the great fashion designers and style leaders. They’re usually so downright and exacting. But here is a comforting thought from one of them—one of those Parisian eoutouriers who make or break a style. She says: “Style is 80 per cent, grooming . . . the 20 per cent, is enough for clothes.” Now' that’s something to think on—and act on. Grooming means figure, carriage, skin, hair, hands. Figure first, because nothing counts so much towards wearing clothes with a well-groomed air. So your first step, towards style is to see that your lines are correctly groomed for everything you wear. If it’s tailored clothes, then wear them over a firm tailored corset and liras; your evening frock over a supple evening controlette; and so oil. ft’s easy to choose this year, with such lots of new summer weight and sports type controlling fabrics. First, for the heavies, tropic mesh. Cool and porous enough for the tropics. (They are said to absorb perspiration so that you don’t get that hateful clammy feel). Mode for slimmer girls too, without the reinforcements needed for more recalcitrant flesh. Then there's poise-flex for slim to medium figures ... a new all-elastic, more controlling than an eezeo, but just as comfy. And for medium to heavy, the new skintex —very light and fine, with “fabric” boning at the hack.