The shoulders wide and the jacket long and straight

one dress for the year 1958?

Set your mind at rest.

"The Woman's Voice" has an idea to help you. An astonishing idea, which will cost you no more than a few liras:

Come. Open your wardrobe. You have your 1957 clothes: a coat, an evening dress, a skirt of broadcloth, and a "Francis" dress of velvet... We shall make of them splendid new dresses.

1 — Begin first by shortening all the dresses by 2 to 3 cm.

2 — The evening dress of velvet.

Since the fabric is in fashion, you will win it for the coming year if the neckline is "décolleté" and without sleeves. It needs only a "bib" of white satin to brighten it.

3 — A coat of "Scotch tweed."

It will dazzle every eye if you replace its buttons with glittering ones. And if you replace the collar and the cuffs of the sleeves with a fur-like fabric of long pile.

4 — An afternoon dress of silk.

It is décolleté. Its back is simple, with a pretty bow at the waist. So it observes the fashions of the new year. It lacks only a "necklace" in the form of two strands: one gilded and one strand white.

5 — A skirt of broadcloth.

It is gathered; hurry and pleat it. Then open it at the side. And gird your waist with a belt of shiny or matte leather.

And wear plenty of Oriental earrings, and bracelets, and necklaces... And smile, Madam, happy in your elegance and your economy.

And remember these phrases proper to the year 1958:

"Grace is clarity, and sweetness is the spur." And take care that your charm should lie in your mysterious dress

Notice how much shorter the skirt is this winter than it was last winter (the horizontal line).