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above the chest. These sweet and charming dresses are wonderfully suitable to help express femininity. Using, if possible, a nicely embroidered belt or a narrow silver or golden belt to emphasize the waist a little (but only a little) and at the same time accentuate the hips you cannot get a dress more enchanting and feminine.

The colors now are soft: pale blue, strawberry ice cream pink, cream yellow, pistachio green and dove gray, all colors that are fine to help our efforts to look as feminine as possible. The light rose pink color is perhaps the most sweet and lovely of all the colors this year. A 2 or 3 piece dress with skirt, jacket and blouse (or top) all in this color or the blouse in a contrasting color is a combination that looks marvellous.

The color of the stockings should be pale and as light as possible. The white or almost white stockings are advancing more and more. At first you perhaps find these frosty white or ivory white. stockings odd and queer, but try on a pair and you may soon find how well these white stockings mould your legs into a feminine shape. This fashion is a real plus to a somewhat too slim leg. But do not use them if the legs are sturdy. Black or white lace stockings are still in fashion and in Europe the girls and women (also elderly ladies) wear them quite commonly in the streets as ordinary street- wear stockings often together with long boots in the winter. I do not think this was the intention of the creators of these stockings at first. But fashion is fashion. Naturally we must confess that these stockings are smart and if it is fashion where you live to wear these stockings generally, it will be 0.K.

A somewhat different stocking that can be recommended is the modern support stocking which you can get nowadays in fine thin qualities looking just like ordinary nylons. The "Cameo Supports" of

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