Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — "Don'ts” for Women. [ARTICLE]

"Don'ts” for Women.

Don’t wear a veil with a hole In ft. It gives a woman a squalid look of poverty that there is no excuse for. Veils cost little, and at the worst she can go without one. Don’t lift up your skirt, high on one side and allow it to trail on the other. Every woman should practice holding up her skirts before a pier glass. They can be so caught altogether in the back as to lift them effectively and modestly. Don’t wear a hat too young unless you wish to look old. A sailor hat can be confidently recommended as calculated to make any mature wonlan look like a grandmother. Don’t wear a bang bigger than the moment’s fashion justifies if you don’t wish to look hopelessly vulgar. It is a general law that you can always do a simpler thing than the fashion with safety, but to be fussier than the fashion is to be lost to good taste and dead In vulgarity and commonness. Don’t wear your clothes tight if you are too fat. Don’t cut yourself in two uear the knees with a coat that strikes you about there if you are a short woman. Nothing detracts more from an appearance of height. Don’t forget in arranging your headgear that the effect of the} modern variations of the Alsatian bow depends altogether on fine shades of placing it You can have horns growing horizontally out of your temples and feel fashionable, but you will look crazy and ugly. These bows can be set well back on the head or they can be put forward if they seem to come from near the top of the head, but they must not grow out of the temples. Don’t forget that pointed openings of the dress at the throat are becoming only to slender women.