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 Of course, no woman wants all her dresses and hats and gloves and shoes one color. However, one general color scheme not only will save money, but many moments of distress. You know, there are times when you have to wear your only presentable hat with a dress, for which it was not planned. There is chance enough for color variety in the accessories.

Make your clothes interchangeable. Be sure you can slip your coat over any of your frocks and it will look as if it belonged and was not borrowed for the occasion. If you have only one or two hats, you will find it a great convenience to have them fit in with the scheme of any of your dresses.

Plan your dresses first. Decide the dominating color note that is best suited to your individuality. Probably, the two most practical color schemes are blue and brown—blue for the blue-eyed woman and brown for the brown-eyed woman.

With blue as your choice, you might follow some such plan as this. Have a dark blue cloth dress, trimmed with a touch of brick red. Your hat might be a dark blue trimmed with light gray wool yarn embroidery, touched here and there with the same shade of brick red. With this costume, a coat of dark blue velour