A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING
bit longer than the slim girl, you will find they will give you added height.
Even your hat can add to your height or take away from it. Perhaps, the best rule I can give you to follow is to avoid broad brims and shallow crowns. There is danger, too, in the mushroom brim, although a brim that is medium in size and only droops slightly is often very becoming. A turban or a round hat with a decidedly upward brim is also to be avoided. Even when you have eliminated all these, you will find that you have a wide selection among the hats that have medium brims and fairly high crowns. Try on your hat in front of a full length mirror.
Fig. (13) The woman of medium build can wear almost any fashion. Or Are You a Young Woman of Medium Build?—I am thinking of the girls, say twenty-eight years old or in their early thirties, whose figures are beginning to round out a little more. If you are in that class, watch out and avoid that pinched in “waisty” look.
What you want are young clothes, but they can be a trifle more sophisticated than the girl in her Teens wears. You can break away from
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