PERSONALITY AND OWN FASHION

PERSONALITY AND FASHION

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Personality is the outward expression of that indefinable quality known as "individuality." Personality we can develop—can really create. How? By making it express in the fullest sense our highest and best aspirations.
Personality carries great responsibilities, because we expect it to represent us as individuals. We should therefore clothe our personality with honest thoughts, high ideals, and lofty purposes; and to enable it to forge ahead—to permit us to reach the pinnacles of our aspirations—we should clothe its dwelling place—our body—with agreeable and proper raiment, raiment that will not hamper it but stimulate it to guide our pursuits, to make friends and success for us.
Your individual characteristics should dominate you, your ideas, your attitude toward life and toward those with whom you come in contact.
Your clothes help you to express your innermost thoughts, your kindliness, your good feeling toward all about you. This should be sufficient reason for knowing your good and bad points and understanding yourself well enough to bring out the charm you possess or to cultivate charm if you feel that you lack this invaluable quality.
You should never be satisfied to be a nonentity in intellect, in understanding, or in friendship. You should express your personality in these things, and, in doing this, one of the greatest aids is dressing yourself appropriately, becomingly, and with individuality.
Sometimes, women misinterpret the worth whileness of individuality in attire and resort to freakish costuming. We may be grateful for the infrequency of such mistakes, for there are few women—yes, very few—who do not desire to dress in the most becoming way possible, and who will not, with aid and encouragement, persevere until capable of dressing in a distinctive, beautiful way.
It is my desire in this book to give you authentic and definite information that will enable you to distinguish between what is worth while and what is not, and so help you to select such materials, colors, and designs for your garments that they will harmonize with your individuality and environment.
The experience of designers and creators of wearing apparel has demonstrated that harmonious dress is simply the result of a proper knowledge of color, basic motifs of design, the kind of fabric to employ for a given purpose, and the lines of the human figure. Therefore, instead of being perplexing, harmonious dress —distinctive dress—is simply the result of good judgment used in selecting colors and fabrics and choosing and adapting styles that, in motifs of design, suit the lines and proportions of your figure.
To be clothed in garments that in every way bring out your best points and in no way emphasize any of your defects should be your aim. There are comparatively few women who can afford to be richly dressed; yet, no woman, no matter what her station in life may be, can afford to be shabbily dressed.
Next to your ability—and some claim before it—comes your personal appearance.
Your clothes are your visiting cards—your cards of admission, so to speak—and you cannot afford to be tabooed because of being untidy or dressed unbecomingly.
A really well-dressed woman is never conspicuous nor uncomfortable no matter where she may be. To be well dressed, however, does not necessarily mean that you must be extravagantly dressed; it does mean, though, that you must understand dress harmony—how to adapt prevailing styles to harmonize with your personality and to conform to it.
"Personality and Fashion" is taken from a 1918 publication "Secrets of Distinctive Dress". The information is timeless and just as applicable today as it was back then. To learn more about 1920's ladies fashions we invite you to visit http://www.1920-30.com/fashion

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OWN FASHION STYLE

DEVELOPING YOUR OWN FASHION STYLE

By Robert Scott

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Your style is important. Ask yourself every time you buy anything, every time you make anything, or have anything made: Is it in accord with my style? Does it meet the requirements of correct dress for me?
If you live in a little city or a village and suddenly found yourself on Fifth Avenue in New York City, would you feel conspicuous in your clothes? If friends from the fashion centers of America were coming to visit you, would you feel out of place in your costume? You should not. You have the same opportunity to be correctly dressed as any other woman if you will study and persevere toward perfection in dress.
We must realize that we have a style of our own and that we are of a particular type. This is recognized by every fashion authority in the country, and by every fashion publication, for if all women were to adhere to one fashion, one fashion only would be shown in the fashion books instead of twenty, thirty, or fifty different designs.
Look through any fashion book today and you will find round-and-round and up-and-down lines in the same issue—all with the idea of helping women to clothe themselves correctly and of giving suggestions that will help them individually to find appropriate styles.
Establishing a style for yourself and then perfecting it—be it in hats, gloves, shoes, dresses, or suits—will prove economical, and it will not be long before a degree of perfection will be acquired.
A prominent New York business woman, who is one of the most distinctively dressed women that I know, wears the smartest suits and hats and always severely tailor-made gowns. And her neckwear, usually a jabot or a stock, is so smart that you would never for a minute question whether it is authoritatively fashionable. She always wears high shoes on the street, and usually they have light-colored tops, because she is tall and the light tops of the shoes help to break the appearance of height.
One day, this young woman came to visit me. I could not refrain from remarking about the completeness of her costume. I said, "If I saw your shadow, I should know that it was you by the harmony that your silhouette expresses and the very way you carry yourself."
She said, "Do you know that remarks like yours are what caused me to persevere in acquiring my style of dressing? I used to think I wanted loose, floppy clothes in which I could relax and be just as free and comfortable as if I were in negligee. Once, when in a ferry boat crossing New York harbor, I saw sitting opposite me a line of crumpled-up women apparently enjoying their slovenly posture. Not one of them expressed dignity or pride in her personal appearance. Not one of the women on that boat, I thought, was unusual or had any desire to know better. I then took a little self-inventory. I was ashamed of myself, because I realized I was not very much better dressed than the other women on the boat. I sat up straight and determined right then and there that I would acquire a style becoming and practical for me and would express that style in the most attractive and agreeable way that I could. And that resolution has helped me more than I can say."
She was frank enough to tell me that she attributed a great part of her success to having wakened up, to having made herself trim and having kept herself so. She always plans to have one good suit or one good dress—just as good as she possibly can afford; she procures a garment that she has to respect, and that will make her "dress up to fit."
She said, "If I put on a shabby dress, I will allow my shoes to be shabby and will be careless about my personal grooming; but when I have a dress that I have to be particular about, I always have my hair, my shoes, my gloves, my corset—everything—Just right for it, and I always look very much better."
Living up to your clothes, creating a style, and being equal to an intelligent expression of it are worth many dollars to a woman who wants to be a success in business, in the home, or in social life.
"Developing Your Own Fashion Style" is taken from a 1918 publication "Secrets of Distinctive Dress". The information is timeless and just as applicable today as it was back then. To learn more about 1920's ladies fashions we invite you to visit http://www.1920-30.com/fashion

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