Fashion mavens all say we need an image, but I don’t think you necessarily start out thinking nymphet, earth mother, ice maiden, street urchin, Faye Dunaway (in Network) or Scarlett O’Hara. As you experiment the way Carrie Donovan was talking about, you just inexorably gravitate to a kind of look that pleases you—an image—and so […]

For people who can’t afford a Rolls-Royce or a Lalique chandelier I don’t see anything wrong with having our own little status symbols—an Hermes scarf, the Gucci belt. The Rolls and the crystal got status-y only because of beauty and fine workmanship. So did the Hermes scarf and the Gucci belt for the same reason. […]

You can actually wear almost anything unless you’re fat, but some lines work better than others with your special bones. We haven’t room to say what to team up with a large bosom (you fortunate person!), narrow shoulders, wide hips, short legs or whatever, but you probably already know.I think, rather than compensating for figure […]

A firm body does it for everything from T-shirt and shorts to jersey cocktail dresses. People looking at you may think you’re cute and trim from “nature,” but you know it’s from exercise and exercise’s soul mate, diet.
The diet gets you slender; exercise makes you firm, so that when somebody pokes his finger in your […]