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 a rosy cheek of all its color. Navy blue isn't especially good, either. And black never adds to your appearance. If you want to look your very best in the rain, choose a red umbrella, or a reddish brown one.

If Your Complexion is Florid.—Sometimes I think the woman with a florid complexion has just about the most difficult problem in selecting becoming clothes. Perhaps you have had the experience of selecting a frock and trying it on when your face wasn't flushed, and it was becoming, and when you wear it your face flushes up, and it isn't becoming.

You can't trust your complexion, so you will have to go more by rule.

No doubt you already know that you can't wear red—that red reflects red in your face.

It may be too that you have learned from bitter experience that blue green makes your face more florid. Does it puzzle you? If you will look at the color wheel on page 67 you will find it's opposite red and therefore what is called a complementary color. Not because we know the reason why, but because we have to accept the fact—complementary colors intensify each other.

However, if you wear purple, it will lessen the color of the skin for purple is made up of red and blue.

The two like shades will