SECOND YOUTH.
* DRESS FOR THE OLDER WOMAN. Dress for older women *is based chiefly on dissimulation. This is because- there is blit one ideal for women that- they .should he young. and pretty, but e<iK>eialk young. Quite apart from the fact that there are more older women than younger, this a view doomed to failure. Lines and spurious youth I ulness are in themselves indices that youth is no longer there. Older women should cultivate ; milling in dress rather than vouth which is not theirs. There are’other ■qualities,- dignity. repose. beauty—— every mystery, state- ■« writer in the .Manchester Guardian.” A point that is recognised to a greater extent by the French woman than by the Englishwoman i- that the older woman - dress mnsi cort not h-- but more. This need not mean lbnt sin- more lt to buy superfluities or rubbish 'and carry it off u< < essfullv. She bad better buy one expensive* hat rather than several vl.-ich are inexpensive and here wisdom must come in. sinr<1o stake nil on one thing makes failin'the more di-asticus. One thing, how ever, is certain, and that is tlmt or failure is better than several. r J” year the odds are in her favour i that very soft or very rich material* are being used for hats, also- the line L of the turbans and small hats, whin
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17009, 6 April 1923, Page 10
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225SECOND YOUTH. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17009, 6 April 1923, Page 10
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