The very long evening gown is undoubtedly the last word in smart-ress, but there is wide variety "in the way the long skirts are treated and the older woman should bear in mind that while a simple draped long skirt adds charm and dignity to her figure the skirt with ruffles and puffs, becoming as it may be to the slender young figure, is entirely unbecoming to the older woman, In choosing the skirt length your street clothes in mind that the long slender skirt gives an Jappearanee of height to short Agures that adds to smartness a: well as becomingness. On the other hand the woman who feels that she ig a little too tall does well to retain ly short skirts as long as fashion permits—not of course the knee-length skirts which are quite out Jof the picture and never were becoming to most women.
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