The Ethics Of Dress

Imprimí. The first instinct nbout a ncw fashion is the trae oue. Don't wait till your cyo has lost its accuracy and yonr judgment its edge. Subject the thing at onoo to tho general ruit;, and bow to the decisión. 2d. What suits one person does not suit another. Know thyself. 3d. Dress should supplement good points and correct bad ones. Thick and thin, long and short, are not all to besubjeoted to one Procrustean stylo. 4th. Colors should be harmonious, should be mwaed - should bc becoming. i tt, many little points or blotches cf color sprinkled over a costumu produce a disagrecably pied and speokled effect, as of a monstrous robiu's egg, or plum-pudding. One tint should provail, rolieved by a contrasting tint. No amount of fashionable prestige can make an unbecoming color becoming. " Nile groen " will turn some people into oranges, tho' twenty cmpresses ordaiu its adoption. óth. Lines should bo continuous, graceful, and feminino. It is better to look like a woinan (if you happen to be one) than liko anything else - even u fashion-plate. 6th. Ornament must be subordínate. Nature, with all her profusión, nevel forgets this fundamental law. 7th. Above all things, be ncat. Dainty precisión and freshness is essential to a woman as a flower: 8th. Individuality is the rarest and choapost thing in the world. 9th, and lastly, " Styli3h " "is of all the wonls in tho English languago tho most deadly. It has slain its thousands. -