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 you a list of the dresses that you can wear, and those that are suited to Mrs. Somebody Else?

Now don’t blame your fashion magazines if they are not doing all these things for you. The information is there. It’s just a case that you haven’t digested it.

Study your magazines.

It’s really a pleasant pastime for an odd fifteen minutes or so. First, take the question of sleeves. It isn’t necessary to read endless printed pages to find out what they are like, and what they are not like. Run through the pages and look at just sleeves. Make a mental note of what they are like. You can’t take in everything about all the styles at one time, you know.

After you have mastered sleeves, study the neck line. Perhaps, you will find there are two outlines that are equally stylish.

Then there is the question of the placing of the waistline. It needs watching. What it does one season it hardly ever repeats the next. Look through all your fashion magazines and make a study of just waistlines.

The width and length of the skirt is another question that ought to be looked up. It’s helpful also to classify trimmings just by themselves.

Once you have dissected the dresses, coats and suits, part for part, you will have a good