The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-09

| New York, Sept. 9-IOday you ana
lare going to plan a basic wardrobe, on
that will take you any place-home o
ltraveling-but one that will contain onl
the necessities. OF course, you can adj
as many costumes as your taste ant
your purse permit, but as the ConteS
agoroff told me, no matter how man!
clothes you have you aren't well dressed
unless they are planned around Ger.
tain basic costumes.
The most important thing is to buy
foundation garment before you even
think of the rest. With great care ]
have inspected quite number of corset
lines. know the ones that will give
you the figure. You just can't wear
this years clothes without one. Don't
worry about comfort-the new garments
are not heavily boned, but they hold
you in nevertheless.
The second step in your wardrobe
plan takes you to a tweed suit-the
kind of tweed suit you never thought
you could have-a soft, one and one
that makes you look slender rather than
heavy. You will want to select one of
the hand-woven, hand-dyed tweeds
with short, fitted jacket that gives a
straight line effect, a contrasting or
matching skirt, and perhaps a three
quarter coat. Don't omit velveteen
scarf matched in color by gloves. Let
these be in high" shade of the tweed
while the shoes and bag take quieter
tone. You will want two or three
changes of costume jewelry in heavy
gold or Silver-a matching scarf pin and
ring or one wide bracelet and scarf
pin.
The tweed suit selected-(you will
wear it more than one year, you know,
as it won't go out of fashion,, you
should next turn your attention to a
black or brown accessory dress. Buy
as elegantly simple one as you can
find, for it is the accessories and this
simplicity that make the truly smart
costume and point to your good taste.
This is dress that will take you any
place where formal dressing is not
demanded. You can wear it on those
days when you are gone from home
until 10 or so at night. 1t is not in
appropriate for street wear. 1t is worn
at luncheon here in New York at the
SmarteSt restaurants. I have noted it
in the after lounges of such places
as the Savoy Plaza and here at Beverly,
where see only women of culture and
social prominence. Remember only this:
when you plan to spend the entire day
in your accessory dress, tuck some
white or honey beige gloves in your
purse. You must change from your
dark or colored gloves to your beige or
white after the clock strikes 5.
The third selection for your wardrobe
will be a costume suit of a dreSSy
fabric, and of course, fur trimmed
1t may be jacketed of self material or
have short, bulky fur jacket, but it is
definitely an elegant costume-one to
wear at special teas and for semi
formal dining
Last, you will need a combination
dinner and evening gown. OF course,
it is better still to have dinner dress
and formal dress. Even so, the COM
bination costume will serve you fashion,
ably and beautifully. This year such a
combination costume is better in the
slim and moulded version, its low de-
colletage for formal wear hidden for
other occasions by glittering sequin
jacket Glitter is the keynote of all
evening fashion this year, but it is the
glitter of taste rather than that of the