Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-01-11
.DRESS RESOLVES
FOR THIS YEAR
Determine You Won't WOF.
ship at Fashions Shrine.
(By Barbara Boyd)

'New Year resolutions about dress
Goodness! We give enough time and
thought to dress now without making
New Year resolutions about it, many
woman will exclaim
But this is not the ordinary view of
dress that is to be taken in making
/ New Year resolutions about it, 1t is
not question of what is fashionable
nor whether to get a brOadcloth or a
tweed tailored suit, or what color 10
choose. 1t is a matter of standing off
and looking at the question of dress as
a whole, of deciding just what place
it should have in ones life, of what
stand one should take in regard to
fashion, and then having taken this
view and made the decisions, to re-
solve to abide by them.
Some women do not give enough
time and thought to dress. This state
ment may cause a smile of incredu
ity, but it is true. Dress does not in
tcrest them, and they dress carelessly.
AS result they frequently are not 50
successful in business or socially as
they would be did they frequently give
little more thought to their appear,
ance, genius after he has won rec
ognition as genius, may be superior
to clothes. But the most of us need
to pay some attention to our appear
ance, if we wish to make a good i'm
preston upon strangers. And no one
knows what may be the outcome of
the impression we make upon casual
acquaintance.
Therefore the woman who is care
less about her dress should make a
few New Year resolves. She should
resolve to study what colors, what
general style to bring out her best
points.
She should resolve that her hair
shall always be we'll brushed, well
shampooed and becomingly arranged.
She should resolve to keep her nails
manicured and her whole person dain-
ty and well groomed.
She should resolve to keep her
clothes mended, her neckwear, gloves
and shoes Immaculate and fresh
In a word, she should resolve not
to look unkempt, frowsy, tag-raggy, an
IL she had chosen her clothes hit or
miss in junk shop and thrown her
self into them in five minutes.
Dress is an uninteresting subject to
some women. But, nevertheless. it has
a certain Importance in life They
should resolve to recognize its lust i'm
portance and to give it proper place,
whether the enjoy doing so or not The
coming year will be happier and more
prosperous if they do So
The great army of women who
spend more money on dress and give
1t more time than they should also
need to make resolutions. Now is the
time to locke the whole big question
ever and to decide calmly and delhi
Arately the course to take.
They should resolve what portions
oil their income should go for dress.
IN the Wril of a new seasons fash
ions, it is difficult not to sweep off
ones feet financially it no stadard had
been set to hold fast to. Resolve to
nave a guild eand abide by it.
Resolve also not to give an undue
allowance of time to dress. There
are more worth while things to do in
Lie than to run from one shop 10
another and from dressmaker to mil
liner, in a frantic scramble after the
new and stylish. Recognize the Just
value of these things, but do not
oYervalpe them.
Resolve, when a fashion IS fooIisb
OF inartistic, to set your face stead
nave a guide and abide by it.
Dress could be more artistic and
comfortable, If women would have if
Instead many rig themselves out
until they look like freaks" because
some hypothetical they says such
and sneh things are fashionable.
NO one can study the crowds IN
shops and on the streets without real
izing that dress is not all. Yet an
enormous amount of time, energy ana
money is spent upon 1t. ST every wo-
man would resolve to improve her
own dress this coming year along the
INES OF art, sense and comfort, dress
would become more beautiful and less
bothersome before another twelya
mont he ra11pd ornt,,J