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a year. The Ageless Woman buys the most expensive fashion she can afford because true fashion changes slowly and predictably. Well tailored slacks, a cashmere sweater, an expensive well-made handbag are all good fashion investments.

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Don't leap aboard every fad bandwagon that comes along chandelier earrings tinkling in time to the clump-clump of your one-inch platform shoes. If designers are looking back to the nostalgic fashions of the 40's and 50's, don't take a trip down Memory Lane if you've already been there. If you were old enough to wear the original fashions of the 40's, you'll look like a female Rip Van Winkle in a rerun of ankle-strap shoes, deep red nails and lipstick, or crepe dresses with sweetheart necklines. Avoid fads and fashions that are a literal translation of clothes from your past. Instead choose a very subtle adaptation of styles from your past. A look inspired by the past, but with a totally current viewpoint, is an excellent choice for the Age- less Woman.

There are sections on clothing and accessories, complete make-up, gestures, sitting, standing, walking, posing (yes, posing), body language, what to do with your hands, facial expressions, facelifts, hair and wigs, feminine attitudes, and much, much more. Everything to become the Ageless Woman. About the only chapter you won't commit to memory is on menopause. How many times have you looked at fashion, modeling or make-up books at the library only to find them circa 1950, or written for the unreal world of the debutante? Winning the Age Game is NOW, for today's woman.

My spouse has had trouble getting it back from me ever since she bought it. Is my enthusiasm showing? I'll give it an 111⁄2 on a scale of one to 10. At all good book stores.

Linda Davis (TX-8-D)