minations

III HOW TO DRESS YOUR TYPE 46

A FEW POINTS APPLYING TO ALL COSTUMES.--Background.--Line
and colour of costumes to
bring out the individuality of wearer.--The chic
woman defined.--Intelligent expressing of self
in _mise-en-scene_.--Selecting one's colour scheme

IV THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOTHES 54

Effect of clothes upon manners.--The natural
instinct for costuming, "clothes sense."--Costuming
affecting psychology of wearer.--Clothes
may liberate or shackle the spirit of women, be
a tyrant or magician's wand.--Follow colour
instinct in clothes as well as housefurnishings

V ESTABLISH HABITS OF CARRIAGE WHICH CREATE GOOD LINE 66

Woman's line result of habits of a mind controlled
by observations, conventions, experiences
and attitudes which make her personality.--Training
lines of physique from childhood; an
example.--A knowledge of how to dress appropriately
leads to efficiency

VI COLOUR IN WOMAN'S COSTUME 74

Colour hall-mark of to-day.--Bakst, Rheinhardt
and Granville Barker, teachers of the new
colour vocabulary.--PORTABLE BACKGROUNDS

VII FOOTWEAR 85

Importance of carefully considering extremities.--What
constitutes a costume.--Importance
of learning how to buy, put on and wear each
detail of costume if one would be a decorative
picture.--Spats.--Stockings.--Slippers.--Buckles

VIII JEWELRY AS DECORATION 94

Considered as colour and line not with regard
to intrinsic worth.--To complete a costume or
furnish keynote upon which to build a costume.--Distinguished
jewels with historic associations
worn artistically; examples.--Know what
jewels are your affair as to colour, size, and
shape.--To know what one can and cannot
wear in all departments of costuming prepares
one to grasp and make use of expert suggestions.
How fashions come into being.--One of the rules
as to how jewels should be worn.--Gems and
paste

IX WOMAN DECORATIVE IN HER BOUDOIR 111

Negligee or tea-gown belongs to this intimate
setting.--Fortuny the artist designer of tea-gowns.--Sibyl
Sanderson.--The decorative value
of a long string of beads.--Beauty which is t