Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

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.61It is tiresome everlastingly to wear black, but nothing is soserviceable, nothing so unrecognizable, nothing looks so well onevery occasion.A very striking dress can not be worn many timeswithout making others as well as its owner feel bored at the sight ofit. Here comes the Zebra or the Cockatoo! is inevitable if a dressof stripes or flamboyant color is worn often.She who must wear onedress through a season and have it perhaps made over the next, wouldbetter choose black or cream color.Or perhaps a certain color suitsher, and this fact makes it possible for her habitually to wear itwithout impressing others with her lack of clothes.But whether herbackground be black or cerise it should invariably blend with herwhole wardrobe, so that all accessories can be made to do double orGet any book for free on: www.Abika.comETIQUETTE IN SOCIETY, IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS AND AT HOME424whole wardrobe, so that all accessories can be made to do double orquadruple service.62Supposing you are a young woman with more beauty than wealth!Let us also suppose you have three evening dresses, a blue, a pink anda green.At the moment you can wear flesh-colored slippers andstockings with everything, which rather weakens the argumenthowever, a blue fan does not look well with a pink or a green dress,nor do the other combinations.Supposing, however, you had insteada cream-colored dress, a flesh-colored, and an orchid one.Flesh-colored slippers look much better with cream and orchid than witheither green or blue, at any rate! A watermelon pink fan is lovely innight-light with all three; so is a cream one.Or perhaps by changingboth fan and slippers, a different effect is produced, since the colorsof your clothes are background colors.63But nothing really can compare with the utility and smartness ofblack.Take a black tulle dress, made in the simplest possible way;worn plain, it is a simple dinner dress.It can have a lace slip to goover it, and make another dress.With a jet harness meaning merelytrimming that can be added at will it is still another dress.Or it canhave a tunic of silver or of gold trimming; and fans, flowers andslippers in various colors, such as watermelon or emerald, change itagain.In fact, a black tulle can be changed almost as easily as thoughdone with a magician s wand.64To choose daytime clothes that go with the same hats, shoes,parasols, wrist-bags, and gloves, is equally important.A snuff-coloreddress and a gray one need entirely different accessories.Russet shoes,chamois gloves, and sand-colored hat go also with henna, raspberry,reds, etc.; but gray must have gray or white shoes, gloves, and hat,which also go with blues, greens and violets.65DON T GET TOO MANY CLOTHESChoose the clothes which you must have, carefully, and if you mustcut down, cut down on elaborate ones.There is scarcely anywherethat you can not fittingly go in plain clothes.Very few, if any, peopleneed fancy things; all people need plain ones.66A very beautiful Chicago woman who is always perfectly dressedfor every occasion, worked out the cost of her own clothes this way:On a sheet of paper, thumb tacked on the inside of her closet door,she put a complete typewritten list of her dresses and hats, and thecost of each.Every time she put on a dress she made a pencil mark.By and by when a dress was discarded, she divided the cost of it bythe number of times it had been worn.In this way she found outaccurately which were her cheapest and which her most expensiveclothes.When getting new ones she has the advantage of veryGet any book for free on: www.Abika.comETIQUETTE IN SOCIETY, IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS AND AT HOME425clothes [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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