Don’t Cover Me

This image shows a collage-style artwork centered on a page from an etiquette book. The page is decorated with cut-out elements including red roses, a green butterfly, and fashion-related images. Parts of the text are blacked out or highlighted in green, creating a blackout poetry effect.

By Je’Nye

Don’t Cover Me

don’t cover me

don’t fit in
stand out

dress in style
and save half

becomingness
sense of what is becoming
FASHION HAS LITTLE IN COMMON WITH BEAUTY
Fashion has
power to appear temporarily in the guise of
beauty, though it is
beauty
if
doubt
look at old fashion
women of beautiful taste suc-
cumbs
to the epidemics of fashion,
she is more immune
than most
women who have any clothes-sense whatever know more
or less the type of things that are their style — unless they
attack of “fashionitis”
they are irresponsibly delirious
one unchanging
be followed by
one who would be well dressed — SUITABILITY

VULGAR CLOTHES
define differences
clothes
are notable because
their smartness and clothes
are merely conspiculous
to define