In street dress careful make-up can do something but not so much.
For one thing there is a growing disposition among well-bred women in this country that obvious makeup is in rather bad taste for the street, Besides even skillful makeup cannot entirely camouflage the natural tones of the skin when wind and cold air have full play. The woman whose skin takes on a purplish, rose tint in cold weather looks for hotter in blue or green than she does in red or dahlia, though any of these purplish or " reddish tones might be truly becoming under the more favourable lights and in the more temperate atmosphere of her own or a friend's home in the evening.
There are some women in thei istence on becomingness first who hesitate at wearing bare arms and low-cut evening gowns unless their arms and shoulders are strikingly beautiful. This is of course going. too far, On the other hand the woman with prominent shoulder blades and a poorly developed back should net wear one of the extremely low-backed evening gowlls merely. for the sake of smartness. The fashion world Is 80 full of such a variety of necklines that there is: no reason why anyone should not always appear to advantage in conventional evening dress. There are evening gowns cut fairly high at the front and low at the back, others fairly high at the back and rather low in front, dresses with low necks and drapery' to hide ill-proportioned farms and sleeveless dresses fairly, high at back and front.
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