. Youth's educator for home and society ... TASTE AND HARMONY IN DRESS. 259 iant-hued dress. There is a certain beauty belong-ing to each year of life, and the woman who dresses inconsonance with her age, her figure and her face, nomatter whether she be young or middle-aged, willnever excite the smile of derision. CONSISTENCY IN MATERIALS. It is a great mistake to put cheap trimming on ahandsome dress, or expensive ornaments on a cheapand flimsy material. A fine bonnet is entirely outof place with a shabby dress. Here as elsewhere,everything should be in accord. And do not whenyou go to market
. Youth's educator for home and society ... TASTE AND HARMONY IN DRESS. 259 iant-hued dress. There is a certain beauty belong-ing to each year of life, and the woman who dresses inconsonance with her age, her figure and her face, nomatter whether she be young or middle-aged, willnever excite the smile of derision. CONSISTENCY IN MATERIALS. It is a great mistake to put cheap trimming on ahandsome dress, or expensive ornaments on a cheapand flimsy material. A fine bonnet is entirely outof place with a shabby dress. Here as elsewhere,everything should be in accord. And do not whenyou go to market, or shopping, wear a dress richenough for the opera, under the impression that onlyrich dress will stamp your social status, and prove tothe world that you belong to the upper ten. Neitheris the house of God the place for such fine dresses are not proper save at receptions,theater, opera, or like places. childrens fashions. If Kate Greenaway accomplished nothing else, byher introduction of the charming little costumes forch
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