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What Shall I Wear?

Beatrice (33-B-2 FPE)

EDITOR'S NOTE: For some time past various readers have asked for some authoritative information about Fashion, about design and what to wear when. One of our good and long time readers is qualified to help in this department and this is her first article on the sub- ject. Others will follow in subsequent issues. Beatrice and I both hope that they of you will find it of value.

Clothes are made to be lived in, not to walk around on models blessed with perfect figures, in the pictures in High Fashion Magazines. Some people seem to be born with a sense of fashion, others cultivate a fashion sense and still others live their entire lives without ever learning much about fashion.

Fashion Is Fashion, when it is the right combination of hue, value and line. You can't find it in the diction- ary. There are no permanent rules. Fashion breaks rules! But I assure you, gentle reader, that if you train your eyes, you will soon learn to recognize the woman or TV with a sense of fashion. Fashion is flexible. Where, for instance, do jackets end in the fashion magazines? Where should they end on you? Waist length, hip length, finger- tip length, tunic? Obviously, something must enter your choice of clothes. You can be sure that what you wear will influence your life, even if you are in a locked room, and what others think about you, if you are not.

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