"THOU SHALT NOT."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

"THOU SHALT NOT."

TEN DRESS COMMANDMENTS. 1. Beware of making yourselves ridiculous by clinging lo flapperdom too long. 12. If you can't bo pretty be interesting. 3. If you are not pretty, don't try to make yourself nn imitation of some pretty girl you know, but dros3 to be interesting. 4. All pretty women can't bo interesting, but an interesting woman can outshine all pretty ones. 5. Don't bo afraid to bo different. Make capital of your defects. 6. Cultivate a. colour sense. 7. Learn restraint in dress. 8. Understand the value of simplicity. 9. And dres3 to be interesting. 10. It is better to have one good wellmade dress than half-a-dozen mediocre gowns. Those are the ten dress commandments which are endorsed by Lady Duff-Gordon, but she adds a word of warning regarding No. 5, which she declares is rather dangerous to broadcast. "Being different," might lead to terrible combinations of design and colour, by those who have no sense of colour or line or of fitting the occasion with the gown. But without going very far wrong and from the straight path of the present uniform that is worn by rich and poor alike, you can be "different" in your little adjuncts. Once upon a time a great "different" could be obtained in the way the hair was arranged, but to-day that "difference" can be ruled out with this everlasting sameness of bobbed and shingled and cropping of hideousnesses. You must put your own personality and thought into "being d fi'erent." .Ttrst he vare not to be ridiculous; that is the main ! hing.