DESIGN FOR A HOUSE DRESS
Busy women will certainly light in a house dress as easy make and comfortable to wear this one. You can see at a glance
for at
de how free-and-casy this is to work
to in. The full sleeves, pleated as prettiness and comfort, set in
wide armholes, are as unconfining as no sleeves at all, and much better looking.
And of
button-front course. a dress is the easiest kind to get into on busy mornings. Make it of per- auch cale, calico, gingham or any tubfast cotton, and edge the v-neck, pointed closing and convenient pocket. with bright ricrac.
Kitty
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1939
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"If it ain't one thing it's always another," says ruralizing Rita, "now the Country is suffering from the jitterbug blight.
Period Furniure
By Elizabeth MacRae Boykin
Left, a typical Sheraton chair. Right, a typical Hepple- white design.
to confuse easy It's pretty Sheraton and Hepplewhite furniture. They are first cousins, so to speak, as both cabinet makers worked at It was the same time in London. natural that both should fall under the same influences of taste, styles, woods available. But as you learn separate more about them, their personalities emerge and soon you'll learn to sense the differences at a it is the book that inspires most of glance. In studying them, it's a the contemporary reproductions of
up chairs first the style we call Hepplewhite. good idea to take because they are so typical.
DAINTIER
with the delicacy and femininity of the furniture is a question. Actually,
RECTANGULAR CHAIR BACKS
As for Sheraton, he evolved a Generally speaking, Hepplewhite chair every bit as graceful as that chairs are more dainty, more curv- of Hepplewhite, but of more sturdy than construction. And so a chair of ing, more feminine in line those of Sheraton. The shield back his design usually has the unbroken the most familiar characteristic line from the floor to the top of the of Hepplewhite's chairs and the line back, and the back itself has a cross of the top of the chair is unbroken. rail to brace it firmly just above the (When Sheraton used the shield seat. The rectangular back is his back, he broke the line across the most usual form, and you will often top). The Hepplewhite chair back find horizontal bars as the theme of . almost never reaches the seat but is the design-but Sharaton also used supported by the back posts (like a urns, lyres, a swag of drapery for"
The legs picture on an easel). The Prince his chair back designs.
.:
of Wales' feathers are a most familiare slender too and either round or
chair square. ar motif for Hepplewhite backs, but wheat, ferns and flowers were also favourite details. Legs are invariably slender and usually straight with spade feet.
It's improbable that Sheraton actually ever made a piece of furni- ture. He called himself a mechanic, but he did a bit of preaching on the by writing, drawing and publishing George Hepplewhite himself died side and eked out a mengre living It is these two years before the book on furni- books' on furniture. ture designs, signed by him, was books that are the source for the published. But his shop was con-designs of so much of the furniture tinued by Alice Hoppliowhite, his we use to-day in our homes. For widow. Just how much she had to his influence on contemporary furni do with the designs and whether her ture designing is said to exceed that hand may have had something to do of any other man.