Evening dress may be as gay as one chooses to make it, though extremes are not desirable.
Dresses made a suitable length for walking are much more appropriate for the street than those that are so long that their wearers become street cleaners.
Neatness in a lady’s dress is one of the first requisites.
To dress well requires good taste, good sense, and refinement.
The most appropriate and becoming dress is that which so harmonizes with the figure that the apparel is unobserved.
A hostess should be careful not to out-dress her guests.
When going out one should consider the sort of company she is likely to meet, and should dress accordingly.
The idea that “dress makes the man” is a very false one, but a man does make, or select, rather, his dress, and is judged somewhat in accordance with that selection.
At a five o’clock church wedding the groom, best man, and ushers all dress as nearly as possible alike. The proper costume or suit is a black frock coat, gray trousers, black or fancy vesting waist coat, white tie, glacé gloves, patent leather boots, and a tall hat.