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 You really have a wider choice in colors than either the real blonde or the real brunette. Take your street dresses and suits for instance. Since your hair is fairly dark, you can wear the light tan which is taboo for the yellow haired girl. On the other hand, for evening, you can wear a pastel shade if it happens to take your fancy.

But to go back to street clothes, you have your choice of tan, brown, dark blue or any of the pretty reds that happen to be worn. If you are blessed with a good color and a fair skin, then you can wear a light gray. If your skin is sallow, taupe, which is gray with a little brown in it, will be more becoming. Whether or not you can wear black depends on your skin. If you have a clear skin, you will probably look well in black.

Where your costume is either white or black, try to introduce a note of color, such as hydrangea or peacock blue. It will make your eyes seem prettier, you know.

In cottons, the soft gray blues will probably be your wisest choice. Remember that you can wear the bluish lavenders too, and yellow will intensify the lights in your hair and not detract from it.

Light shades for evening will probably suit you better than vivid shades. Lavender, light blue, light green or yellow are all good.

You will find it a good rule not to wear the too vivid shades. It takes a real brunette