Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1912 — COLORS SHOULD BE STUDIED [ARTICLE]

COLORS SHOULD BE STUDIED

Selection Is of Immense Importance, Especially to the Woman of Small Means. The value of color is something that a clever dressmaker understands fully. Two dresses can be cut alike, line for line, but in different shades of the same silk, and one of them will make a woman look slender, straight and supple and the other will give her an unaccountably dumpy, roundshouldered, square-cut figure. All women ought to make a careful study of colors, whether they have a professional interest in the matter or not. It ik especially important for women of small means, who have so few gowns that they must live with those of their choice very intimately. A woman who can buy twenty or thirty dresses a year can afford to make an occasional mistake when her fancy for a trying color or a too daring line carries her away for a moment. She can hang an unsuccessful dress in a closet and forget about it, and it does her no harm—helps her, perhaps, in choosing more wisely in the future. She does not suffer from her folly. But a woman of small means, who meets with a mishap in the choice of her one new gown, must wear it whether or no—a harsh commentary on her vanity, her poor judgment, or her bad taste. The best plan is to choose carefully and buy slowly.