Edith Head's Commandments of Style

When I was a kid growing up, it was the time when costume designer Edith Head was the shoe in for costume design - something insane like 8 years in a row. My Vanity Fair recently posted her "fashion commandments" and I must say - I agree with every last one:

1. Don't let your clothes be fitted too tightly. Even a perfect figure looks better if it doesn't resembler a sausage. Only a bathing suit should "fit tight". A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

2. Don't wear the date dress whe yoiu're arfving for a day's work oat the office. The dressy dress, the low-necked lacy blouse, the glitter sweater, all the glitter category belong to after dark.

3. Don't be too different. You don't want to dress like the herd, but you don't want to look like a peacock in a yard full of ducks. Being too much an individualist is not being well dressed.

4. Don't feel that when you're going to a party you must lok "dressed up" - a simple dress is safer if there's a question of what to wear, and you will be much more comfortable simply dressed than overdressed.

5. Don't be afraid to wear a becoming costume many, many times. It's an old fashioned idea that have to have a new dress for every occasion or party. Even if you have the money to do so, it isn't necessary. The modern approach is to change accessories.

6. The caridanl sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Finally - the quote "Fashion is like a language, some know it, some learn it, some never will."

I have a feeling Ms. Head would be MORTIFIED of the casual dress code in many offices today and the way the average woman morphs them into a nightclub or the gym. ;)