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 select is youthful. Crepes and satins are both tricky. You dont want your dress to look as if you borrowed it from mother or Aunt Mabel.

Of course, for evening, there is nothing like taffeta, taffeta and lace or taffeta and tulle. Here you may have the frock bouffant to your heart’s content and trimmed too.

I wonder if you will mind my adding just a few don’ts.

Don’t wear a quantity of imitation jewelry and spoil your pretty costume. Try just your wrist watch with your serge or tricotine and see if it doesn’t took better. Remember too, that there’s nothing like a simple string of pearls to set off an evening frock.

Don’t overdo the styles. After all, clothes are just a frame for one’s personality. You want people to remember you; not that your skirt was short or long or tight or full.

Don’t copy some one else’s clothes, unless they happen to be your age and your type. Miss a-hundred-and-sixty and Miss not-quite-a-hundred-and-five were never intended to be twins.

Perhaps You Are One of the Stout Young Girls.—Of course you can’t have some of the things that slim young girls have—ruffles, puffings and frills for instance. However there’s danger in swinging too far the other way.