What Shall I

Beatrice (33-B-2 FPE)

Continued from TVia #29 Wear?

THE RIGHT CLOTHES FOR YOU

To be appropriately dressed, you must first consider the season of the year. A white organdy blouse looks dainty and feminine in the summertime, but it is cer- tainly not appropriate for cold weather wear. Likewise a heavy dark crepe dress is out-of-place on a hot July day. True, certain fabrics are for both summer and winter. A tailored white cotton broadcloth blouse, for instance, might be worn both summer and winter, but a dark gingham dress made with a high neck and long sleeves would be quite out of place if worn downtown in the summertime, when the temperature is high.

To keep cool during the warm months, you will want to choose cool colors. Your clothes should be a tiny bit looser than usual and you should avoid wide belts, high choking collars, tight bands on your sleeves or at the waist, and above all, you should wear perfectly laundered clothes. Wear fabrics or light weight leather shoes and avoid suede or heavyweight shoes which belong to your winter wardrobe.

Wearing the right thing at the right time is most important, if you are to appear well dressed. Your dress and everything else you are wearing should be suited to the occasion.

If you have decided on the most appropriate line and the most appropriate color scheme for YOU, you should give serious thought to a complete wardrobe. Bea Danville wrote a wonderful book entitled: "Dress well on $1.00 a day". It is probably in your local library and is also available in paper back edition by Collier Books for $1.00. I am copying here, exactly as it was printed, her basic theme, to give you an idea of what kind of clothes you whould have.

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