The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-10-12

with her ripened personality, her
dignity and composure, selects more
quiet colors than the girl of twenty,
and the matron of sixty with her
gray hairs and ripe experience pre-
sents personality that calls for
different dress from the woman OF
thirty-flve. There is required a lit
tie difference Of attire turnout, but
in any case each part OF the attire
should harmonic with all the rest,
and it is just here that the inexper-
fenced, untaught girl who goes
shopping needs information and
time to study. Harmony cannot be
accomplished by standing before the
mirror with new dress on, and
then placing on her head one hat
after another to the end OF the
varieties and colors and thereby de-
Gliding which one looks best. The
very confusion arising from the
variety keeps her from arriving at
a proper decision. The fact that she
sees herself scrutininzing herself
makes her look self conscious and
unnatural and defeats her purpose.
and then when she goes to looking
at prices she Is again thrown into
confusion, and she finally takes
something Just to get over with the
ordeal, and probably decides after
Commissions have reached their
height, and selects the worst. When
she appears among her friends In
her new attire 1t may be perfectly
plain to them that her hat and dress
do not harmonic at all, but they
feel In duty bound to compliment
her on her selection, and that
clinches the mistake with her so
that she is liable to take her present
outfit as q standard by which to
Judge such things thereafter. She
may buy several articles in this way
and select the worst combination
possible and almost give people the
mental shivers when they see her,
when II she had understood or had
some competent person to look her
over and consider her age, form,
complexion and general appearance
or personality, and then start laying
out a complete outfit for her, con-
slider the matter Of sizes and when
she finally puts them all on and APP
pears before the big mirror she ap-
proves of her own appearance and
feels complimented rather than
abashed, takes on a feeling Of as
surance and composure and thereby
matches her attire and looks and
feels natural. The other extreme is
to look unnatural, feel embarrassed,
act embarrassed and decide that
nothing looks good on her. It is
not the fault of the individual, but
a lack bf understanding of how to
go about these matters, or lack Of
help in selection.
A parallel case would be the serv-
ing of meal to a hungrey person !.
Suppose the pie or desert were
served first, then the vegetables,
then some jelly and jam and then
the meats, and some pineapple, some
syrup and follow with a sip of
vinegar. BY that time the persons
attitude toward food wauld be such
that he would not want to. see or
hear of food again for a while and
IT would be very inappropriate
time for him to select and buy a line
Of foods that he must live on for a
time. When he had eaten part, of
the desert on an empty stomach he
might have been satisfied to buy a
stock Of desert with the idea of liv-
ing on 1t, but after confusing his
taste with all the other things eaten
in the wrong order with sour follow
ing sweets, he would want none of |
them.
The matter of color, in dress,
comparing colors and selecting, is
somewhat like tasting all of those
foods and then trying to select |
foods. The sight, in the one case,
and the taste in the other case, has
been confused and dulled by the
procession of changes and the
senses become dulled and incapable.
A blonde might be beautiful in a
certain attire and a brunette in an
other, but have them exchange and
both might be sacrificed by it. A
'poonful of viegar might be relished
With cucumber, but not be good fol-
owing syrup.
The girl in the average home has
tudied these things, but not neces-
arily with much understanding or
orrect information. The boy in the
.verage home has given little or no
bought to anything of the kind.
When he goes to buy his suit, hat
nd tie he is a blank, almost color
lind SO to speak. When he goes to
he fashion show he will get some
lght from it, but not nearly so much
s will his sister and his mother,
nd the more they know about the
latters we are trying to tell you,
he more they will get out of the
ashton show and the more deep
abstraction they will feel as they go
ONE and as they reflect upon it in
he weeks to come and when they
o shopping. When they buy an
utfit, they will know why they {
elect certain things and do not
elect certain others. 1t will not be !
ne price that decides it at all, for
egardless Of that matter they will
rst determine which it should be.4
4 course the price may compel
lem to alter their selection, or they !
lay find they have laid out just
hat they want and then on looking
yer the price may find that what {
ley selected is not SO expensive as
hat they would have taken II they +,
ad not gone to the fashion show. e
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