Beauty of form and grace of vesture . up dark reflections, which deepenevery wrinkle and increase apparent age. Stoutwomen wear black in the hope of reducing appar-ent size. When dressed with especial care, it isapt to be in an aggressive black satin. The tightgown looks as if made of patent leather. The highlights of the texture emphasize all curves and rig-idity. Any advantage of colour is worse than lost BEAUTY OF FORM. 175 by bad form. Others wear black as a convenientway to solve the colour problem. It is an evasion;the opportunity to use harmonious tints and at-tractive hues is thrown aw
Beauty of form and grace of vesture . up dark reflections, which deepenevery wrinkle and increase apparent age. Stoutwomen wear black in the hope of reducing appar-ent size. When dressed with especial care, it isapt to be in an aggressive black satin. The tightgown looks as if made of patent leather. The highlights of the texture emphasize all curves and rig-idity. Any advantage of colour is worse than lost BEAUTY OF FORM. 175 by bad form. Others wear black as a convenientway to solve the colour problem. It is an evasion;the opportunity to use harmonious tints and at-tractive hues is thrown away. If a woman will observe what colour elicits mostremark from her friends when they seem bestpleased with her appearance, or the colour whichher mirror tells her makes her complexion appearclearer or warmer or brighter, she will find thatshe has made some progress towards the solutionof the question. There are good dull tones to be found in anOctober landscape, ditificult to describe, but easilyrecoenized. CHAPTER XII. Fig. 69. As a small head is a beautifulendowment, its size should notbe sensibly augmented by thedressing of the hair. Thosewho have a great wealth ofthis possession should sacri-fice an excess of it, ratherthan overpower the effect ofa greater persons differing wholly in appearance andfeature to dress the hair in exactly the samemanner cannot be equally in good taste. Thedisposal of it may immediately effect a radicalchange in the expression of a person. Howeverit may be managed, the outline of the skull shouldbe somewhere preserved. Any coiffure that cov-ers the delicate blending of colour where the hairmeets the temple or the skin of the neck, becomesat once wiggy. BEAUTY OF FORM. 177 If the face is disproportioiially large, the hairshould not be dragged away from it, but allowedto encroach upon its borders. Bangs or fringes,pretty in themselves, should not be worn to con-ceal temples that are still more beautiful. It isa mistake to
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