Lack of individuality indicates a lack of development. Science teaches that the higher the scale of advancement, evolution, what you will, the greater the specialization: "Refined individuality is a recent and still unfolding flower." But we recognize it as a component part of all distinguished personal success.
There should be one fixed, unalterable aim held before every woman as the object to be attained in the selection of her clothing; it is her real opportunity for distinction and always open to her: It should set her off to the best advantage possible. The dumpy woman who barrel-hoops herself in encircling bands of trimming, and her six-foot sister who serpentines herself in striking stripes that add more than a cubit to her stature, are conspicuous misfits wherever they are placed. "'Tis the average woman's business for the benefit of the community in which she lives to look her best." No woman should make herself
"... a sight to shake The midriff of despair with laughter."
-- Fletcher, The Woman Beautiful
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