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.A dinner dress differs from a balldress in little except that it is not necessarily designed for freedom ofmovement.25Hair ornaments always look well at a ball but are not especiallyappropriate (unless universally in fashion) on other occasions.A ladyin a ball dress with nothing added to the head, looks a little like beinghatless in the street.This sounds like a contradiction of the criticismof the vulgarian.But because a tiara is beautiful at a ball, or a spray offeathers, or a high comb, or another ornament, does not mean that allof these should be put on together and worn in a restaurant; which isjust what the vulgarian would do.Whether, to wear a head-dress,however, depends not alone upon fashion but upon the individual.Ifthe type of hair ornament at the moment in fashion is becoming, wearit, especially to balls and in a box at the opera.But if it is notGet any book for free on: www.Abika.com ETIQUETTE IN SOCIETY, IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS AND AT HOME418it, especially to balls and in a box at the opera.But if it is notbecoming, don t.26Ladies of fashion, by the way, do not have their hair especiallydressed for formal occasions.Each wears her hair a certain way, andit is put up every morning just as carefully as for a ball.The only timeit is arranged differently is for riding.An informal dinner dress ismerely a modified formal one.It is low in front and high in the back,with long or elbow sleeves or perhaps it is Dutch neck and nosleeves.27When trains are in fashion, all older women should wear them.Fashion or no fashion, no woman who has passed forty looks reallywell in a cut-off evening dress.An effect of train, however, can veryadequately be produced with any arrangement or trimming thatextends upon the floor.28The informal dinner dress is worn to the theater, the restaurant (ofhigh class), the concert and the opera.Informal dinner dresses areworn in the boxes at the opera on ordinary nights, such as when noespecially great star is to sing, and when one is not going on to a ballafterward, but a ball dress is never inappropriate, especially withouthead-dress.On gala nights, ball dresses are worn in the boxes andhead-dresses and as many jewels as one chooses or has.29THE TEA-GOWNEvery one knows that a tea-gown is a hybrid between a wrapper anda ball dress.It has always a train and usually long flowing sleeves; ismade of rather gorgeous materials and goes on easily, and its chiefuse is not for wear at the tea-table so much as for dinner alone withone s family.30It can, however, very properly be put on for tea, and if one is diningat home, kept on for dinner.Otherwise a lady is apt to take tea inwhatever dress she had on for luncheon, and dress after tea for dinner.31One does not go out to dine in a tea-gown except in the house of amember of one s family or a most intimate friend.One would wear atea-gown in one s own house in receiving a guest to whose house onewould wear a dinner dress.32WHEN IN DOUBTThere is one rule that is fairly safe to follow: When in doubt, wearthe plainer dress.It is always better far to be under-dressed than over-dressed.If you don t know whether to put on a ball dress or a dinnerdress, wear the dinner dress.Or, whether to wear cloth or brocade to aluncheon, wear the cloth.Get any book for free on: www.Abika.com ETIQUETTE IN SOCIETY, IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS AND AT HOME419luncheon, wear the cloth.33ON THE STREETYour tea-gowns, since they are never worn in public, can literally beas bizarre as you please, and if you are driving in a closed motor, youcan also wear an original type of dress.But in walking on thestreet, if you care to be taken for a well-bred person never wearanything that is exaggerated [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]