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Thursday, February 23, 2012

How to Look Well in Clothes - For Stout Women

How to Look Well in Clothes - For Stout Women
From the advice of New York designer Edwina Patterson






No belts on coats






Dominant colors should be:


Navy

Black
Or
Neutral Shades




Flat fur coats ( like broadtail -  'the wavy, moirélike fur or pelt of a young or stillborn Karakul lamb'.[Source: Dictionary.com] )
Broadtail fur from the 1940s


No doll or pillbox hats.


*Bummer, because I love pillbox hats.  I didn't realize they were so popular in the 1940s.  When I think pillbox hat, I think Jackie O


Jackie O. Impersonators 1961




Wear off-side berets


Susan Peters 1943




Wear medium-size off to the side hats


Zasu Pitts, Paula Laurence & Celeste Holm


No peplums or tiered rulles, dirndl skirts, wide belts, and unpressed pleats




*Basically anything that adds volume








[Source:   Quick Steps to Beauty and Charm.  Dorothy Cocks.  White's Book Company.  Westfield, Massachusetts.  1948.]

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