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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
October 3, 1939.
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JANET JAY SHORT CUTS
Finds THERD must be tow homic
makera who don't run up Home of their own and tho children's frocks, and things like curtains and loose covers as well.
The trouble about dressmaking at home is think one's work is in clined to spread itscit all over the sitting-room.
You have probably found that the dining tablo firmest for the hand-sewing machine, you want the dressmaker's model handy for fitting, and the floor often offers the largest space for cutting out, in my experience at any rate.
Even a large table won't alwnyn take the full widtfi or length of the material er pattern.
Another thing about dressmaking at hamedo you find Lint bills and plecer hide thesolves about the hound?
Hunt the Thimble
Patterns lappen mysteriously when wanted, and finding plus, thimble es place bag may mean a hunt through: cupboards and draweru.
itaving mentioned the anags, i thought might be a good Idon thin work to Lutk hhout ways to make hom dreamnking caster.
It all started when I found a dreka making board for cutting out which you can put either on the table or the itoor. It struck ma na such a sensible idea that I started looking round for other dressmaking gudgols.
"Tha board (while conts Gs, with di for post), enables you to open out material full width for cutting, to fold
It accurately lengthways or bias, and it cannot slip we šildo about, a great help Inurica like when 'cuithig · Alemay georgette.
Thora la cas chance of waste in cut- ting when you can see exactly how the pattern is going to work out.
Sewing Gadgets
Staring it is easy, tou, for It Inkda up to be put away in a cupboard. Which reminds me that It Is a good plan to base and cupboard solely for Dewing gadgets.
Your hand machine can go on the floor, Bleeve board, ahearn, work box on slietves alsove. Anx for tileces on
In The Kitchen
BEFORE beginning to cook, lower the plate rack of your stove and cover it with 'a ten-towel, 'for the the boiling saucepans will not steam the windows and walls, as the cloth will absorb the vapour un it rises.
· for Home Dressmakers
Firs! ossential
is a sharp
pair of dross-
moking shoors,
the
and top shelf, Hones for buttori, tapei, hooks and eyes. make sure that theor are always at hand when wanted. I have always thought that one should, have nome
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method of ling paper patterna. 1 foll then carefully and put them back in their envelopes when finished with, and pack these envelopes on end alde ways in a altullow box.
This way it is easy to run through them when you want to find any special frock or coat pattern.
One of the nicest kinds of sewing machine the electric machine, com- plete with built-in light, Alted into a cabinet which makes a useful side table when the machine is not being used. The electrie motor leaves both
hands free to guide the work, and gives. your sewing a more professional look.
But if you havo a modern hand nuchine, you can have an electric motor fitted to it. It costs only 124 Oc and is well worth it if you da attich arwing at home.
A colander fitted into a saucepan Machining Tip
makken a good substitute for a steam- er, and vegetables cooked In this way retain their vitamina and nourishment, but
that remember cooking by this method requires a Wtle longer time than by the or dinary way.
When using a hand machine, by the way, try putting a blanket folded into several thicknesses under it. It lessens the vibration, and saves a polished table from marks.
Next to the actual sowing, I fund that proper fiting, pressing and anishing make all the difference between the home-made and the professional touch.
If there no time to put tomatoes in hot water before sltinning them. wrinkle the wktin a little by gentleļ squeezing, and they will then peel cusily. Cut them up with an exactly to your own.surements.a.
slicer and they are ready for the aolad bowl.
Save used drinking straws and pat them in a vase on the kitchen man- telpiece. for they make splendidi tapers for the gas stove.
Whe two tumblers become fixed, one inside the other and are diffeult; to separate, pour cold water into the inner one and stand the outer one in fairly hot water. When the Inner glass, contracts and the outer une ex- pands, they can be easily taken apart.!
G. G. T.
If you have to all yourself, you wil find a model which can be moulded
great help. It can be altered in a moment to fit someone else.
Hems are easier to level if you use a
gadget which is set to a certain number of Inches from the ground. You move it round as you pin up the hem and it ensures an even hang. It costa 2s. 6d. With dd. postage.
An ironing table is essential for good pressing, and I would add a sleeve board for dressmaking purposes. ·
I found a large alze board com- plete with a sleeve board. This alldes into a compartment, under- neath the table when not in use, There is an extra shilling for car- riage If you live outside London.
If you are working on a material which marks enlly, try this way of pressing the long seams.
Get someone to hold one end of the seam, wrong sido upwards, while you hold the other, pull, the materini thut, then pass the iron along the seam, opening it out as you go. This won't 31113114115154658-5-2012545***
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flatten the pile of fab rien ilke velvet,
Warm fro1 and a damp cloth save put- Ling shine on wool. lens, but I found a special Ironing pad which is useful When pressing silta or costumes.
It has rualleus wire galize on the side which goea next the materia); the other aide in Hatnet, and when using you rub this side over with a wet apongo batore pressing with the hot iron.
I found that the ganze will reduce shine on worn aulis, and silks can be pressed on the right side,
Burning or scorching can't happen with a controlled heat" electria, iron. This is a point whelt is turned to the right heat for rayon, silk, wool, rollon or linen, and this is auto- matically maintained na long as you str irosing.
No-Waste Iron
It saves current, too, because you are,! never using more then you need for the job in hand.
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Of course you have a good tape measure, sharp cutting-out scissors and plenty of pins, but tallor's chalk is useful for marking notches, and I keep a pucket of smail hairpina in my work- basket. because the double prong of n halpin stays put in laco'or net.
Pins won't go natray if you stick them in a fat, old-fashioned pincushion as you discard them.
Pinking shears are still rather ex- pensive, but are worth it if you make jeur own clothes. They coal 29s. Ed. a pair. post G., and cut the material with a notched edge which never frays- and saves the extra work of binding or avereating seams,
Linen And China To Match TABLE #nen designed to
match your chind-that's the newest Idea in the most exclusive furnish- ing shops, but you need not be û millionaire to adopt it in your din- ingroom.
All you need is some of the new pastel-unted linen, a card or two of WHAT happens to good screen plain cont (incidentally, the seques that blessed modern invention, bias clothes when they are discarded of this coat are cut on the bias-just binding, and quite ordinary skill with after the film is completed? What for novelty); the other two are Buffyla needle. Or, if your favourite china
with becomes of
stunning gowns evening gowns
picturesque has a floral design, copy it on the Gloria Gorgeous wore in her latest skirts. Anne took a particular in-corners of the cloth, napitins or din- (and greatest) film? And what do terest the blue marganza because the stars do with their own "old" she designed the necklace worn with mats in duil Anish embroidery
silics. clothes?
i scarf made of pink velvet with Hundreds of letters asking these dark brown hearts. questions arrive each year, in the stars mail-letters from the curious, Dress Distribution from ardent fans who want a frock
To copy a design on china is usual- ly quite easy. Nowadays, when so many tea and dinner services are with bands of: hand-
These, and other clothes from the decorated
for a keepsake, from youngsters who stare personal wardrobes, are often painted colour, all you have to do la frankly ask for the clothes, appar- sent to relatives living in towns for repeat the bands in the same tones ently operating on the principle that
from Hollywood, or are given to of blas binding. Let them run round the stora have on unlimited supply.
ambitious young girls struggling to the hem of the neutral tinted cloth, The playern cannot, of course, grant these requests for the simple Win fome (because most stars can re- and finish the. corners with a single reason that the studios furnish and member when similar ald pulled initial in the most intereating colour. own all clothes worn in production them through a critical moment), or Blas binding, which can be had in a wonderful colour range in cotton, by feminine members of the cost to mald stand-ins, or charitable orinen, silk and artificial silk, in very i (The men furnish their own-unless ganisations. It's a costume picture).
Many production clothes not worn easy to work with, and if you can give your initial a modern aquarich or purchased by the stars are taken look, so much the better. over by the nubilelty department, to
Purchased by Themselves
be used in various ways to exploit | To copy a florni china design that But what does become of these a picture.
is not very simple, trace the out clothes? Well, Ginger Rogers, for Each year dozens of costumes go lines from a plate to a piece of irons- one wears hers out if they are used out from the studios to travel all parent paper. Then with carbon in a dancing sequence. In fact, two frocks, exactly alike, are made for over the world, mute heralds of com- paper, repeat it on the linen to be
Sometimes they sawn. ing productions. each of Miss Rogers's dance numbers return frequently they remain
Both are cleaned nightly from dust abroad-ar awards in contests. collected on the studio floor, and
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Don't overdo the repetition of a dealgn. If your teacups are wreath- ed with flowers, don't have the same lowers in the same size all round
Many of the clothes warn in pro- But the majority of these glamor your tablecloth. Simply concentrate duction are purchased by the stars vus star wardrobes are redited and on, one grouping, enlarge It, and for their personal wardrobes. They remade, sometimes five or six times transfer 14 to the corners of the cloth can't go wrong, in sich""purchases, They are worn by stand-fog and and napkins....Uso discretion in for the gowns were desigfied for them minor players, appear incomedy buliding up a set; exnet copying is and their personal foibles, At per- shorts, and costume "extras" work- m: offen Inclined to be crowded and feetly, and are becoming. Carole ing in mob scenes. -
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Lombard recently purchased the Then about once a year, the ward- Fashionable (three-piece suit of belge robelstugor, a frummage sala,!, sella. If the china is cream with a-de- wool "which was designed for her dozens of dated gowns no longer use; sign in yellow and green, nvold bay- role in "In Name Only." Hollywood ful to them ( Extras, players down ing to linen sot in cream with the still recalls "the lime Ludile? Ball on 'thele luck,, freshfaced newcomers sumo design in the same colours, bought all the clothes she wore in living on a modest Income, buy these That may be accurate, but It Imn't тан black Jersy frock, with me of her films, down to the last frocks, dre and remake them once always smart. Instead have the padded ́ raglan sleeves, kas, plenis glove and shoe.
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faband into the back of the skirt, a Anne Shirley purchased three of appointment at a casting office the decoration in the other two “TELEGRAPHS" weggestions, of lowered; waletben in the ensembles designed for her latest, And then who knows? Perhaps, inades, especially if your china is the souming, and sildo ciquing down plcture, "Career"; one a navy blue in Gloria Gorgeous's oldest gown—anot very interesting..
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