Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10
to Your Type and Wear the Right Coors Latest Decree
BY MARY MARSHALL.

~ ME women go through life
under the serene impression that
so long as they keep down
excess weight they can t'wear
ANYTHING" They seem to think
that if q woman hasn't red hair or
isn't a striking blonde or sallow'
skinned brunette, is not under feet
in height or not over 6 feet, she can
do the same.
It is especially the poor fat wona n
who, at the present time, is made TO
feel that she must be put on rigld
diet not only regarding food but re-
garding clothes as well. You can
be too thin, apparently. short OF BENG
q walking skeleton
Some one recalled the fact the other
day that obesity had been divided into
three stages--the enviable, the COM
ical and the pitiabIe, Obesity in a
woman said this observer. SIS al
ways enviahle or pitiable, seldom or
never comical" You may be sure IT
was a man who said that No woman
ever envies another woman, even the
first stages of obesity. They say that
il men say they like plump women
it is because they are old-fashioned
or want to keep in the good graces
Of overweight wives.
From the point Of view of the dis
tinguished dressmakers who make
serious business of dressing women
of all types, there really is no woman
living who can wear anything. The
need for specialization in making
clothes for the fat woman is more CD
vious than that for most other women,
but no more real.
Besides. the dress problems of all
fat women are not identical. There
are fat women who can and ought to
wear the new 1850 sleeve and fat
women who certainly ought not to-
fat women to whom the slightly full
ed skirt comes as a godsend and
others who should cling to scant
skirts as long as fashion permits. In
general, black is a good color for fat
women-but not always.
To many of the leading French
tressmakers the idea of making a
frock without considering the physi-
cal, temperamental ensemble of the
woman who is to wear the frock is
an unsatisfactory proceeding. One
can no more plan a frock that Will
suit women in general than one can
plan a college course that will suit
students in general. Ideally speaking,
we should all wear frocks made spe-
cially for us by some one of the great
designers.
But this is the privilege of only a
few. So it is that the designers must |
often content themselves with making |
frocks that suit a variety of different |
types of women. And these frocks re- |
produced for us by the makers of |
ready-made clothes are ours to choose /
from. If we look long enough and |
fntelligently enough we may almost /
always find something that is really |
appropriate and beconing-but we
must go about the task With much pa |
thence. There is much convenience in |
this present-day custom of buying |
frocks ready made. but if we make it |
too convenient, selecting the first /
frock that we take a fancy to, we |
shall be but badly dressed. /
1t is rather usual saying In |
France at present that any woman |
may wear any color, since it is now |
permitted to change the tone of ones |
complexion to suit the occasion. Shades |
of green that would be most unbecom- /
ing to the sallow brunette may be worn /
successfully IL artistry is brought to |
bear in the application of just the right /
sort Of powder and rouge and other
cosmetics. That is undoubtedly one of |
the advantages OF the widespread use
OF makeup at the present time. But
If you cling to your oldtime prejudice
against such articles, then you must
choose your colors with great caution.
1t is, however, true to a very great
extent that any color can be worn by
any woman providing she selects the
right shade and tone of that color.
Thus there are shades Of green that
do not i'll become the sallow brunette
"au naturel." A little more blue or