Clothes & Ego
T n looking round the women of one’s * acquaintance nowadays, one finds that most of them are charmingly dressed, but some of them possess the subtle faculty of looking differ—distinguished (says Lady Ossulston, in a London exchange). In trying to analyse this, one is surprised to find that often it has nothing to do with money, physical attraction, nor is it even exclusively pertaining to taste. Many women have an unerring taste in dress for colour, for line, and for chic, and yet they always look just like the fashion plates from which their frocks were copied—-
charming and ladylike mannequins. These women use their clothes to adorn, to embellish, and to proclaim them women of fashion. In the case of the others. Lady Ossulston remarks that their personality transcends their clothesand their lies the crux of the whole matter. They use their clothes rather to frame andd express their personality
and charm. They dress not merely by the mirror, but by instinct; and one is so attracted by the “ego” which the clothes serve to frame that one notices only their general effect and that they are altogether delightful. To take in their detail one is obliged consciously and deliberately to switch one’s centre of interest.
Fortunate is the woman who possesses this “flair.”
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