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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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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.
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.
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