A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING
It is well to keep in mind that every season brings a few extremes along with many charming wearable clothes.
There is the matter of dollars and cents, too. It is another place where it is easy to lose the true value of style. Expensive is not a synonym for stylish. It’s line and cut and becomingness that counts everytime. There is no truer saying in the world that clothes are more often overdone than underdone.
Costly materials may be very beautiful in themselves but they must be cleverly handled to equal the simple charm of an inexpensive goods well cut and well made. 
Fig. (1) Elaborate material is just as out of place in an everyday environment as calico is in a ballroom. As a matter of fact, where the dress is becoming as a whole, in admiring it one forgets to analyse the texture. If you will just stop and think of the pretty dresses which you have seen lately, I am sure that you will agree with me. One must remember too, that an
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