ON DRESS.
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.about lo proceed to her execution, she woulddeinanda little time to perfect her toilette.—Chamfort.
Dres.<; is an index of your contents.— Lavatcr. Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.—Franklin. The plainer the dress, with greater lustre docs beauty appear.—Lord HaliToo great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wi inkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.—-Bruyere. Good dressing includes a suggestion of poetry. One nowhere more quickly detects sentiment than in dress. A welldressed woman in a room should fill it with poetic sense, like the perfume of flowers. —Miss Oakly.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19986, 30 June 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)
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113ON DRESS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19986, 30 June 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)
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