Evening star., 1933-03-19

HERE'S not a woman in the
/ world who would net be we'll
/ dressed, If she could And it
I Il Is my contention. that every
! woman can be we'll dressed if
/ she will discover and learn few simple
principles. The first Of these, and 1
! think the most important, is suitability.
| Suitability means, of course, that you
choose the correct clothes for the occa-
sion And right here, 1 know that
many women are going to object that
only the woman with a well filled purse
can possibly have correct clothes for
every occasion. That is. in a sense
perhaps, true. But fortunately most of
us don't need clothes for every conceiv-
able occasion. Our lives are so ordered
that our clothes requirements can fall
into few groups. 1t then becomes a
matter of selecting wisely the frocks
and coats for those groupings.
A wardrobe planned thoughtfully
need not be costly. Indeed. it may cost
a very very little, if wisdom is used
in the selection of every article. The
woman with a flare for chic starts the
planning of her wardrobe with the SIM
plest garments, and progresses to the
more elaborate; rather than beginning
with the elaborate and progressing to
the simple. For she knows that SIM
pie frock may go to an elaborate func-
| ton, but that an elaborate one can't
go to a simple one, and still be in good
taste.
7 THINK a very good way of plan
L ming suitable costumes is to begin
with clothes for daytime wear. She
will perhaps begin with frocks for such
simple daytime occasions as shopping,
or business If she is one of the modern
women who crowd every minute full.
For such occasions she may choose a
smart tailored suit or simple little
wool frock, cut on impeccable lines,
to be worn with an equally simple and
equally smart coat and hat Or she
may prefer we'll designed frock of
durable silk. But for this type of cos
tune she will avoid all suggestion of
ornamentation or elaboration. She will
choose gloves and shoes and bag and
other accessories to harmonize with
these daytime costumes, and having
accomplished this first part Of her
wardrobe. she will know that she is well
dressed, because she is suitably dressed
for the occasion. Even if she were not
able to buy another costume, she would
still feel that she had achieved kind
of distinction.
The next step in assembling smart
wardrobe would be the choice of after
noon clothes, frocks and coats suitable
for tea at a smart tea room, for bridge,
or for any of the afternoon functions
that fill cur lives. These costumes will
be Of softer materials, little more
"dressy" little less practical. The
coats worn with these frocks will be
handsomely trimmed with fur. But
they will still be definitely daytime cos
tunes of street length and of a char
acter that would be fitting for street
wear. For even though you may travel
by taxi or your own car, there is
sort of unwritten law that says that
afternoon clothes must also be suitable
for wear on the street. That bars out
trailing skirts and such absurdities.
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NEXT, the smart woman in assemb-
ling her wardrobe considers clothes
for dinner wear and for the semi
formal gayeties that begin in the late
afternoon and last sometimes until the
wee hours of the morning. II she Ii
wise and If her purse is not as well
filled as she might like to have 1t,
she will look for costume that will
serve equally well for an informal din.
ner party and for the dancing that
may come later. She may do this by