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go to town. There are so many ways a scarf can be used to beautify a dress that it's hard to know where to begin. Item one: If you have a thin, scrawny neck, a too big adams apple, too thick a neck, a neck of two colors (above and below your shirt collar line), or any other defect, you can hide it with a scarf. BUT MAKE THE SCARF A PART OF THE COSTUME.

Fashion hedges about scarves, shows them as inci- dentals, doesn't ever tell you quite what to do with them, yet scarves grow more and more beautiful. What you do with a scarf is much more important than the scarf itself. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE tieing scarves.

Many a woman has taken a page from man in regard to tieing her scarf. Beau Brummel, who had the repu- tation of being the best dressed man in England of his time, is reputed to have said: "No starched fabric can ever be retied and look right, When he tied his scarf, his rule was perfection on the first try. If something went wrong, the scarf was tossed in the laundry to be re- washed and repressed.

Try tieing one around your neck with the ends tucked into an open shirt waist top or a Vee neck, or hold it in place over a round neck with a pin or broach. Also try tucking the ends under your bra straps. Tie it in front, in back, on the side. It can be wound loosely around your neck and dropped glamorously off the shoulders so that it rises and falls in the wind.

As for color, try a red scarf at the neck of a pink suit, a lilac print against a solid purple coat or for in- stance, with a simple beige dress, white, brown, topaz, baby blue, gold, orange, yellow, turquoise, or prints may be used. Experiment.

SHOES

Shoes cover the color scale. They come in every imaginable shade, pink, purple, blue, green, coral, even yellow. First you need black shoes preferable kid. May- be patents, but note: if you have big feet, beware of pale shoes. They definitely make a leg longer by being "part of your stocking", where a dark shoe ends your body line at the ankle. Also if you have big feet, avoid patents, they catch the light and draw attention. Thirdly,