Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — IF ONE WOULD DRESS WELL [ARTICLE]

IF ONE WOULD DRESS WELL

Poiret, the Famous Parisian Dress- ___ maker, Lays Down Ten Commandments.-, To the woman who would be well dressed, Paul Poiret writes “The Ten Commandments in the autumn .fashion number of Harper’s Bazar for October as follows: 1. Choose whatever Is most becoming to your beauty—tightly fitting garments or loose-flowing ones, the strictly tailor-made, or the more elaborate. 2. Choose the colors which go well with your complexion, your hair, your eyes. 3. Observe the decorum and wear appropriate dresses in appropriate places. It Is because of her ability to understand the eternal fitness of things that the Parisienne is so often the queen of large- social functions! 4. This year, for instance, I am bringing out more dresses built on straight lines. 5. If fringes such as 1 border gowns with do not fit in with your personality, dare to wear any other kind of trimming that does! 6. I am keeping the light chiffon over-skirt which harmonizes or contrasts with the silk foundation. But if that is not suitable to you, dare to wear heavy brocades and satind. 7. Personally I like strong colors, colors of life and poetry, hut if paßtel shades are becoming, wear them, no matter what is the fashion! 8. If the high waist line such as I still advocate does not reveal the good points of your figure, do not adopt jt! 9. Have the waist line wherever it is becoming to you! 10. I like the tight skirt and am making it this year. But if you look better in a wide one, do not sacrifice your beauty in a vain attempt at being fashionable!