The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-11-15

fit for walking in the streets. Above all.
do not buy wearing apparel because it is
miscalled cheap. There is no such thing;
cheap clothes are dear wear. The article
is unsaleable because it is either ugly,vul- |
gar, or entirely out of date. Que reason
why you see colors ill-arranged is that
the different articles are purchased each
for its own imagined virtues, and without
any thought of what it Is to be worn With
Women, while shopping, buy what pleas
es the eye on the counter, forgetting what
they have got at home. That parasol is
pretty, but it will kill by its color one
dress in the buyers wardrobe, and be un
suitable for all others An enormous sum
Of money is spent yearly upon woman S
dress; yet how seldom dress is so ar
ranged as to give the beholder any pleas
ure To be magni6cently dressed GER
tainly costs money; but, to be dressed
with taste, rs not expensive. 1t requires
good sense, knowledge, refinement. We
have seen foolish gowns, arrogant gowns.
Women are too often tempted to initiate
the diess of each other, without consid-
erlng
The difference of climate and complexion.
The colors which go best together are
green with violet; gold color with dark
crimson or lilac pale blue with scarlet;
pink with black or white; and gray with
scarlet or pink. A cold color generally
requires a warm tint to give life to it.
Gray and pale blue, Tor instance, do not
combine we'll both being cold colors.
The first inquiry You must make, if you
wish to be well dressed, is into your de-
fects of figure and complexion. Your
beauties you are already sufficiently we'll
Acquainted with. You ave short: you
should not wear hounces, nor stripes 60
ing round the figure You are fat: Gcn't
wear check You have high shoulders;
avoid shawl, which is very graceful when
well put on by tall woman, but ugly
when dragged ac.oss the bosom as if to
hide an unridy gown. To look well, a
shawl must be large ; no arrangement can
make a small shawl look well.
All limitations are bad They deceive
no one, and, the first gloss having passed
off, they stand revealed for what they are:
not for what they pretend to be. Let the
cotton be cotton, and not pretend to be
silk. A velvet dress is prudent pur-
chase. 1t never looks too fine, and, with
the addition of lace and flowers, is suita-
BILE for any occasion. 1t is, of all mate
rals, the most becoming to the skin.
Satin is not so, because more glossy than
the skin itself; so diamonds, being bright
er than the eyes, serve to dim rather than
to brighten them.
1t is impossible to speak too strongly
on the subject of selecting colors that suit
the complexion and shair. White and
black are safe wear, but the latter is not
favorable to dark or pale compilations.
Pink is, to some skins, the most becom-
ing not, however, if there is much color
in the cheeks and lips and if there be
even a suspicion of red in either hair or
complexion. Peach color Is perhaps one
of the most elegant colors worn. We
still think with pleasure of Madame d Ar
blay's Camille in a dress Of peach colored
silk, covered with India muslin and silver
ribbons. We forgive her for having run
into deot for it. Maize is very becoming,
particularly to persons with dark hair and
eyes. Whatever the color or material of
the entire dress, the details arc all in all
the lace round the bosom and sleeves, the
aowers-in fact, all that furnishes the
dress. Above ali. the ornaments in the
head must harmonic with the dress. If
trimmed with black lace, some of the same
should be worn in the head, and the flow
ers that are worn in the hair should dec
crate the dress.
Ornaments should never be merely and
evidently worn as ornaments. Jewels,
| flowers, and bows should do some duty
they should either loop up skirt, or fast
en- on lace, thule, etc. There should be
sone reason for placing them; bow of
ribbon that has no mission is a fault
Flying strcamers are unpardonable. Nil
tons description OF Deilah does not pre-.
possess US in her favor
"Sails fill'd and streamers waving,
Courted by all the winds that hold them play"
Nothing looks worse than veil flying be-
hind your bonnet. Either draw it over
your face, or leave it at home.
We have not yet mentioned the sub
iect of dressing the hair. BY attention
to this, much may be done to decrease
the defects of the face. If this be too
long, the hair should be arranged SO as to
give width if too short, the hair should
be plated, and put across the fore part of
the head, or turned back, which, if the
forehead be low, gives height aud an open
expression.
We have not, perhaps, pressed sufi-
ciently strongly on the necessity of the
dress being suitable for the hour. No