Chapter 11: How to Be Your Own Stylist

"Keeping in step with style can be an adventure. But there is a difference between being fashionably dressed and being a slave to fashion. The style-conscious woman does not accept every fashion fad in toto, whether it is becoming or not. She learns where to look for changing style trends and then adapts them to best advantage to her own figure. Thus she becomes her own stylist and is able to give her clothes that subtle "something different" which is so important in achieving a distinctive appearance.

The woman who makes her own clothes has several advantages over the woman who must buy the style nearest to her requirements and then pay to have it altered, or who must pay the high cost of having a couturier design her wardrobe. Not only can she wear clothes which would be far beyond what she could afford to buy, but she has added satisfaction of knowing that they are designed for her figure alone, not for a general category of women's figures.

A woman who decides to be her own stylist must do three things: she must learn what style notes to look for and where the first appear; how to adapt fashions to suit her own figure; and how to use a basic pattern. Needless to say the fashionable woman is also one whose clothes fit the occasions for which she wears them. In the following chapter you will learn what points to consider in planning your wardrobe to suit your mode of life. So for the present we need consider only the factors we have just mentioned."

One of our customers found this book at an estate sale. After reading a few pages here or there, it was decided we must share some of it! It is so fun to look back at the similarities and differences in a sewer's perspective over time!