“If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman,” said the fashion designer Coco Chanel. On this Mother's Day, I recognize the important choice to dress impeccably because everyone will then recognize and notice the person.
 
My mother, Phyllis Schlafly taught me how to dress. If the clothes were too short or too tight, or too revealing, she patiently explained to me that I did not have the body type to wear such an outfit. And she was right, because teenage girls want to wear what is fashionable at the moment, and girls never want to wear what their mother tells them to wear. But my mother wanted her daughter to be seen as an accomplished and intelligent young woman, and she did not want her daughter to be perceived as a sexual plaything. In other words, dress for the long game, not the short game.

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