Last week, Jan did a blog about Elsa Schiaparelli. In doing additional research on Schiaparelli, I found her 12 Commandments of Fashion. I found them very humoruous and actually good advice. Take note!
* Since most women do not know themselves they should try to do so
* A woman who buys an expensive dress and changes it, often with disastrous result, is extravagant and foolish.
* Most women (and men) are color-blind. They should ask for suggestions.
* Remember-twenty percent of women have inferiority complexes. Seventy percent have illusions.
* Ninety percent are afraid of being conspicuous, and of what people will say. So they buy a gray suit. They should dare to be different.
* Women should listen and ask for competent criticism and advice.
* They should choose their clothes alone or in the company of a man.
* They should never shop with another woman, who sometimes consciously or unconsciously, is apt to be jealous
* She should buy little and only of the best or cheapest.
* Never fit a dress to the body, but train the body to fit the dress.
* A woman should buy mostly in one place where she is known and respected, and not rush around trying every new fad.
* And she should pay her bills.
By: Polly Singer
