Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

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

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.