Dear Ladies:
Ladies make excellent friends and companions to one another, with one exception: If there is an attractive gentleman present, each lady will, even if she does not know she is doing so, try to attract the gentleman’s attention to the detriment of the other company.
That is why, ladies, we urge you: Do not accept fashion advice from any lady who is in competition for a particular gentleman with you. She will try to be honest and offer a frank opinion, but her thinking is colored by her admiration and desire for the gentleman.
So when she says you would look delightful in puce, consider for a moment if puce is really the right shade for you.
Because it might be that her advice is colored green with envy.
The Fashionable Foible