LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE.
110
Wear
of one bright color, if you will, Let each part of the dress but not more than one.
modest.
harmonize with
a
all
little
the rest
;
avoid the extreme of fashion,
you are short and plump, do not wear flounces, because they are fashionable, arid avoid large plaids, even if they are the very latest style. If toll and slight, do not add to the length of your figure
and
let the dress suit
by long
stripes,
a
If
you.
little
mantilla,
and a caricature of a
A
bonnet, with long, streaming ribbons. large, round face will never look well, staring from a tiny, delicate bonnet ; nor will a long, thin one stand the test much
Wear what
better.
bow
is
becoming
t6 yourself,
avoid eccentricity. enough in of the extreme fashion, is a sure everything to fashion
to
and only To have
mark of
vulgarity.
Wear no jewelry and brooch.
when
dress, it
is
and elry
real,
all
it
is
is
only suited for
!
!
let
me
tell
If
Mock jew-
it.
Sucking the head of your
are you doing?
Have you not breakfasted ? parasol of ivory from your mouth To suck and
evening
it off.
too valuable to -risk losing in the street,
not real, no lady should wear utterly detestable.
What
full
the other details unite to set
if it is is
your watch
in the street -excepting
Jewelry
Take it
is
that piece
unlady-like,
Rosy
you, excessively unbecoming. to a better use.
lips
and pearly teeth can be put
Why mark
did
you not dress before you came out ? draw your gloves on in the
of ill-breeding to
Now
It is a street.
your bonnet- strings, and now your collar Pray arrange your dress before you leave the house Nothing !
!
looks worse than to see a lady fussing over her dress in