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You want to dress to please yourself. That's easy. What isn't so easy is to dress to please other people as well. If you're clever, you can make HIM say of all your clothes

"I Love You

In That

Dress.

It's an old story. You press that old black for the ninth time. Sew a white tucker into it. And get an extra kiss from himself in admira- tion of your "new" frock.

mine

any time we happen to hear it. You want to please him

and you want to please your- self, too. A woman has to use guile to get it 'both ways. This week I spent a lot of

With a chic little hat it's a street frock.

ma

Satin is voted "all right on some women," espécially if it's white.

We think the evening dress in the sketch knows all the answers. I say slipper satin. You may like.

Either way, the dress is one he's going to like.

With a fur it can go to the cine- taffeta.

or the theatre.

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Glamour at night means a

pic-

time finding ture frock. out just how.

He likes you looking trim. That's the coat-and-skirt, complex.

You can wear it with a heart- shaped neckline or a low bodice square. The waistline is just that Greek- inch higher than usual, and gives

It can be one of those looking pictures with sculptured you a "thin-through” grace. folds, but more often it is a wide-

skirted dress rustling away from a It smooth little bodice.

You know perfectly well you can't get away with a classic suit. makes you look "bolstered" round the middle.

Have a soft jacket suit. And the skirt can be part of a dress, if you like. If you can work a cut- away front into the bodice and wear a crisp white gilet so much Men have strange ideas about the better. Men have a passion for women's clothes. They like us to muslin collars and cuffs.

look feminine. They hate us to look conspicuous. They admire comic hats on other women, but not .on on their own wives.

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One black frock is a "must." Men

It are right about black.

spells They encourage extravagance simplicity... and allure. It is al- over legs and feet. Demand glam- ways in fashion. It makes an in- our in an evening frock, And are comparable background for jewel- quite sure every woman looks her lery, accessories and .. you. best in black.

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The woman who goes on wear ing the hat her man can't stand just doesn't care.

I asked half-a-dozen men about the kind of frock they liked.

One talked about chiffon sheer, clingy stuff. An- And other liked his black sleek.

six wanted black to be sophisticated. Said little-girl and play-boy effects "That's the dress I like to see are grand in cottons and colours, you in" gets under your skin..,and but black should be clever.

Witty Kitty

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The only kind of family tree

one that is bountifully trimmied witle” he

of people appreciate

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After a lot of talk we got down to the right dress. Silvaine has sketched it in the top right hand corner. I like it... and the men liked it, too.

There's nothing in the frock when

look you

at it. It's a frock you could wear for a year and cut a dash every time you put it on.

I can see it. in crepe. They like crepe. It hangs well and flat- fers any figure.c

You can wear this dress with snowy white collar and cuffs

look like a Quaker.

and:

Give it sky pink ruffles and it can

dine anywhere.***

Chunky gold chain jewellery necklace and bracelets put it in the celebration class.

A wide cummerbund of

striped

silk would make it daghing: a black velvet sush dramatic,

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It would look lovely in burgundy red... breath-taking in white.

Wear it with flowers in your hair. Wear it with a miniature Men love taffeta and chiffon, bolero to match sometimes. Wear They are rather, afraid of velvet, it when you have something special and can't bear lace because it gets

or tiresome to tell him. He'll listen. hung up on things.

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