And His Clients Who Will Not Look into the Looking Glass Women adopt without rhyme or reason, what they think looks well on Some one else. One modiste with a vivid imagination and a keen eye for beauty pointed- out that this was so because women as a whole do not know how to use their mirrors. It is practically impossible for them to view themselves impersonally and without prejudice: Ip their mirrors, they always see a vision of themselves as they would like to look-instead of as they really are.
Whenever I am present at any sort of public function, I find myself, almost unconsciously, picking out those women who have had the courage to look their reflexions in the face with so much discrimination that they make their public appearance wearing a hat which not only becomes the face, but is also in harmony with the entire silhouette. For, in selecting one's hat, one's face is not the sole consideration. Most women are so concerned with copy ing those few women who know best how to make use of their mirrors that they have no time to consider the possible, almost inevitably disastrous, r-sults of such unreasoning imitation.
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