oors are utilized for mirrors. Such an
arrangement makes for great comfort and privacy. Here I find that most
of my countrywomen dress in their bedrooms. I infinitely prefer the
separate dressing-room, which means a change of air, and which can be
thoroughly ventilated. If one sleeps with the bedroom windows wide open,
it is a pleasure to have a warm dressing-room to step into.

I think the first thing to be considered about a dressing-room is its
utility. Here no particular scheme of decoration or over-elaboration of
color is in place. Everything should be very simple, very clean and very
hygienic. The floors should not be of wood, but may be of marble or
mosaic cement or clean white tiles, with a possible touch of color. If
the dressing-room is bathroom also, there should be as large a bath as
is compatible with the size of the room. The combination of
dressing-room and bathroom is successful only in those large houses
where each bedroom has its bath. I have seen such rooms in modern
American houses that were quite as large as bedrooms, with the supreme
luxury of open fireplaces. Think of the comfort of having one's bath and
of making one's toilet before an open fire! This is an outgrowth of our
passion for bedrooms that are so be-windowed they become
sleeping-porches, and we may leave their chill air for the comfortable
warmth of luxurious dressing-rooms.

[Illustration: By permission of the Butterick Publishing Co.
FURNITURE PAINTED WITH CHINTZ DESIGNS]

If I were giving advice as to the furnishing of a dressing-room, in as
few words as possible, I should say: "Put in lots of mirrors, and then
more mirrors, and then more!" Indeed, I do not think one can have too
many mirrors in a dressing-room. Long mirrors can be set in doors and
wall panels, so that one may see one's self from hat to boots. Hinged
mirrors are lovely for sunny wall spaces, and for the tops of
dressing-tables. I have made so many of them. One of green and gold
lacquer was made to be used on a plain green enameled dressing-table
placed squarely in the recess of a great window. I also use small
mirrors of graceful contour to light up the dark corners of
dressing-rooms.

Have your mirrors so arranged that you get a good strong light by day,
and have plenty of electric lights all around the dressing-mirrors for
night use. In other words, know the worst before you go out! In my own
dressing-room the lights are arranged just as I used to have them lon