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Maybe I should have called this "How to Be Your Man's Idea of a Best Dressed Woman." Because the man in your life has some definite convictions about how he wants you to look. And it won't matter to you how well dressed you are, if he doesn't think so.
Generally speaking, for instance, a man doesn't want his wife, or the girl he takes out, to be the first to wear any extreme new fashion. Men are conservative creatures and they accept change slowly. Just look at the way they dress, and you'll see what I mean!
This conservatism causes me, personally, to do a lot of figuring. As moderator of the Sunday night television program, Leave It to the Girls, and as commentator for many fashion shows, I'm supposed to wear the newest, smartest styles. What's more, I like to, and I guess my conservative husband is getting used to them. Yet if we're going out and he begins to look at what I'm wearing with a funny little questioning gleam in his eye — well, I go back and change.
Men feel the same way about having their women wear extreme decollete. Fine on some glamorous creature at the next table, but heaven forbid that every eye in the room should be turned on any dinner companion of theirs. 1 do think, however, that men like to see women wear evening clothes — and they like bare shoulders, if pretty enough to be revealed.
What I think this adds up to is that most men hate to see a woman look out of place. They'll compliment a girl on pretty, dainty shoes that show off her feet and ankles, but they'll raise an awful fuss about high heels in the country. They don't like to take a girl for a walk, even in the city, and listen to plaints of "Oh, my aching feet."
They like long hair better than short, but they want to see hair held close to the head in a wind. That's because men are sticklers for good grooming and neatness. Properly groomed, I'm sure they prefer the shoulder length bob, and I know several girls who have never cut their hair shorter than shoulder length who are big successes with the boys. You'll notice that we girls on the regular Leave It to the Girls panel have kept our hair rather long, but of course in our case it's because it looks much better that way on television!
Men love little, simple hats, especially with veils. They like picture hats (Continued on page 87)
Do women dress for men?
Of course! — arguments to the contrary
notwithstanding. Then
how should a woman dress for a man?
Let an expert tell you
By
MAGGI McNELLIS
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Maggi McNellis conducts Leave It To The Girls, Sun., 7 P.M. EST, NBC-TV, sponsored by Regent Cigarettes; she's also or