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know that it doesn’t make any difference how beautiful a dress may be, just as a dress, if it is inappropriate for the place or unbecoming to the wearer, you never think of it as stylish. Now do you? There are three great big important things to remember when you are selecting a dress, whether it is for yourself or for someone else.

First: It is important that the style of the dress suit the place or occasion for which it is intended.

Second: The design of the dress must suit the season—in other words be near enough to the prevailing mode not to be conspicuous.

Third: See to it that the lines and color of the dress suit the wearer.

If your dress will pass these tests, you may rest assured that it is stylish. After all, style in the true sense of the word is more than a mere Paris label, a pretty picture or a fine texture. It isn’t enough for a piece of material to be charming on the counter or a style pretty in the picture. Ask yourself how the dress is going to look when you make it up and put it on or when Sally Jones wears it. Put it through the little suitability test.

Probably more errors are committed in selecting extreme styles than in any other way. To be sure, there are people who can carry off the bizarre in dress but they are the dashing

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