Outline.—Fashion in silhouette adapted to your own type.
Background.—Your setting.
Colour scheme.—Fashionable colours chosen and combined to express your personality as well as to harmonise with the tone of setting, or, if preferred, to be an agreeable contrast to it.
Detail.—Trimming with raison d'être,—not meaningless superfluities.
It is, of course, understood that the attainment of beauty in the costuming of woman is our aim when stating and applying the foregoing principles.
The art of interior decoration and the art of costuming woman are occasionally centred in the same individual, but not often. Some of the most perfectly dressed women, models for their less gifted sisters, are not only ignorant as to the art of setting their stage, but oblivious of the fact that it may need setting.
Remember, that while an inartistic room, confused as to line and colour-scheme can absolutely destroy the effect of a perfect gown, an inartistic, though costly gown can likewise be a blot on a perfect room.