Dear Ladies:
One piece of fashion advice that ladies—married ladies, mind you, ladies who are allowed to choose what they wear—often do not heed is one of moderation.
If the color of your gown is purple, trimmed in gold, and you augment your beauty with gold earrings, a gold necklace, a gold fan, gold slippers, a gold bandeau around your head, not to mention a gold shawl, you are in danger of looking like King Midas—an old greedy man who was to be pitied for his avarice.
Moderation will keep you from looking like a pitiful, old—albeit, quite wealthy—man.
The Fashionable Foible