Young Women Decoration Under Most Conditions

With very young women it is easy to be decorative under most conditions.

Almost all of them are decorative, as seen in our present fashions, but to produce an effect in an opera box is to understand the carrying power_ of color and line. The woman in the opera box has the same problem to solve as the woman on the stage: her costume must be effective at a distance. Such a costume may be white, black and any color; gold, silver, steel or jet; lace, chiffon what you will provided the fact be kept in mind that your outline be striking and the color an agreeable contrast against the lining of the box.

Here, outline is of chief importance; the silhouette must be definite hair, ornaments, fan, cut of gown, calculated to register against the background. In the stalls, color and outline of any single costume become a part of the mass of color and black and white of the audience. It is difficult to be a decorative factor under these conditions, yet we can all recall women of every age, who so costume themselves as to make an artistic, memorable impression, not only when entering opera, theatre or concert hall, but when seated. These are the women who understand the value of elimination, restraint, color harmony and that chic which results in part from faultless grooming. To day it is not enough to possess hair which curls ideally: it must, willy nilly, curl conventionally!