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Byline: Kathy Flanigan
With all the self-help, fashion and etiquette books out there, you can't possibly need more information.
Well, all right, then. Here's one more. This time, take notes.
"A Guide to Elegance," by Madame Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, is a French-inspired take on looking like a style goddess. The former director of Nina Ricci, Dariaux offers timeless advice on subjects from after-work cocktails to how to buy a purse.
"The size of a handbag should be in proportion with your own. It is just as comical _ and needless to add, inelegant _ to see a tiny woman lugging about an enormous satchel, as it is to see a portly dowager ...